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1) Mockingbird
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Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
3) Shiloh
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
9) Army brats
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When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.
11) Happy princess
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Eleven-year-old Carmen finds with the help of God she can face the new challenges of starting menstruation, and her relationships with her girlfriends, family, and boys.
13) Tanya's reunion
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When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion, Tanya learns about the history of the farm in Virginia where Grandma grew up.
16) Golden spirit
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Ten-year-old Carmen asks for God's help in meeting the challenges of her bossy nature and in facing serious issues such as domestic violence.
17) Sweet honesty
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Fifth-grader Carmen Browne learns a series of hard lessons about friendship, boys, family, and God, when she repeatedly disobeys her parents, trying to prove how grown-up she is.
18) True friends
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When her African-American family moves to a new town after her father takes a football coaching job at a historically black university, ten-year-old Carmen learns important lessons about friendship and prejudice.
20) Perfect joy
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Carmen starts middle school popular with everyone but her best friends, and finding a new friend only makes things worse, then her grades start to slip and a problem arises at home and she realizes the only way she can be happy again is to turn everything over to God.
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