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1) Holes
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4th Grade Reading
Adventure Books for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Adventure Books for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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3rd Grade Reading
Adventure Books for Kids
Fun Family Read-Alouds for Preschool and Older
Soup Month for Kids
Adventure Books for Kids
Fun Family Read-Alouds for Preschool and Older
Soup Month for Kids
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"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
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4th Grade Reading
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Realistic Fiction for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Realistic Fiction for Kids
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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
7) Superfudge
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
10) Parts
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A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns that new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves.
12) Shiloh season
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When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
13) Speak
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ALA 2019-2020 Top Banned Books
Not your average high-school (book display)
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
Not your average high-school (book display)
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
14) Eragon
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In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
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When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house....
16) Bud, not Buddy
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YA/JUV Historical Fiction List
4th Grade Reading
StoryCorps Highlight Great Depression Blog Post April 2023
4th Grade Reading
StoryCorps Highlight Great Depression Blog Post April 2023
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
20) Ruby Holler
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Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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