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Applegate, Katherine | Home of the Brave |
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at his new Minneapolis home, and longs for his missig mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. |
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Avi | Never Mind: a twin novel |
Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown. |
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Bauer, Joan | Stand Tall |
A 12 year old boy copes with his parents’ divorce by helping his amputee grandfather. |
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Blume, Judy | Are You There God, It’s Me
Margaret |
A 12 year old girl struggles with growing up and religious identity. |
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Choldinko, Gennifer | Notes from a Liar and her Dog |
An 11 year old girl feels stuck in a family she doesn’t like. |
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Clements, Andrew | Frindle |
A clever 5th grade boy invents a new word. |
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Clements, Andrew | The Jacket |
A white sixth-grader rethinks what it means to be a racist after he accuses a black boy in his class of stealing his brother's jacket. |
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Creech, Sharon | Absolutely Normal Chaos |
A 13 year old girl’s summer of growing up. |
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Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons |
A 13 year old girl coping with her mother’s disappearance journeys with her grandparents. |
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Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer |
Cousins Sophie and Cody record thoughts and reflections on their transalantic voyage to visit their grandfather in England. |
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Danziger, Paula & Ann Martin | P.S. Longer Letter Later |
Twelve-year-old best friends continue their friendship through letters after one moves away. |
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Dowell, Frances O’Rourke | Chicken Boy |
A seventh-grade-boy's not-so-good life turns around after he meets a new friend and starts raising chickens. |
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Dowell, Frances O’Rourke | Where I’d Like to Be |
A group of foster children form special friendships as they build a home to call their own. |
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Henkes, Kevin | Sun & Spoon |
A ten-year-old boy comes to terms with his grandmother's death and how his grandfather changes. |
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Henkes, Kevin | Protecting Marie |
A 12 year old girl has a love–hate relationship with her father. |
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Hicks, Betty | Busted! |
Anxious to distract his strict mother, 12-year-old Stewart and his best friend, a girl named Mack, determine to fix her up with Mack's Uncle Joe. |
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Holt, Kimberly Lewis [YA] | When Zackary Beaver Came to Town |
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet and befriend the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. |
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Levy, Elizabeth | My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian |
A 5th Grade boy who is a class clown needs to channel his humor or risk being expelled. |
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Lord, Cynthia | Rules |
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, 12-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic. |
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Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Krumpnik series |
Follow 10 year old Anastasia’s ups and downs of life. |
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Martin, Ann | A Corner of the Universe |
A lonely 12 year old girl’s life changes one summer when she forms a special relationship with her childlike uncle and makes a new friend. |
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McKay, Hilary | Indigo Star |
Indigo dreads the bully at school and his sister is the only one that knows it - his life changes for the better when he befriends a American boy who ends up "part of the family." |
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McKean, Thomas | My Evil Twin |
John creates a fictional "twin" when school records are mis-filed. |
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Mills, Claudia | Losers, Inc. |
A 12 year old boy no longer wants to be a part of the club he helped to create. |
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Naylor, Phyllus | Alice series |
Follow 7th grade mother-less Alice through life’s trials. |
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Naylor, Phyllus | The Girl’s Revenge |
A feud continues between two sisters and two brothers. |
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Park, Barbara | The Graduation of Jake Moon |
Fourteen-year-old Jake comes to terms with is grandfather's Alzheimer's Disease. |
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Park, Linda Sue | Project Mulberry |
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn about more than just silkworms. |
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Philbrick, W.R. | The Young Man and the Sea |
Convinced he needs to earn money and take care of his father, a twelve-year-old boy sets out alone on a dangerous trip to catch a huge blue fin tuna. |
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Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May |
A 12 year old girl struggles with the death of the aunt who raised her. |
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Schnur, Steven | The Koufax Dilemma |
A boy struggles with important decisions about loyalty to his heritage and divorced parents. |
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Thomson, John | Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea |
Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvment in a local racist group. |
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Weston, Carol | The Diary of Melanie Martin, or how I survived Matt the Brat, Michelangel, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza |
Fourth-grader Melanie Martin writes in her diary, describing her family's trip to Italy and all that she learned. |
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Woodson, Jacqueline | Miracle’s Boy |
A 12 year old boy and his older brother struggle with blame and guilt over their mother’s death. |
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Wright, Betty Ren | Nothing But Trouble |
A girl and her dog are left on a farm with a cranky old aunt. |
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Yumoto, Kazumi | The Friends |
Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends. |
summaries copied or adapted from WLS catalog
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