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- Hope Was Here
- by Joan Bauer, 2000, 192pp.,
Reading Level: Young Adult
- A sixteen year old girl, Hope,
makes one of countles moves with her Aunt Addie to a small town
in Wisconsin. Will they form roots in this town of good people
and finally stay put?
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- Wolf Shadows
- by Mary Casanova, 1999, 123
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Seth must make a decision whether
he should turn his friend Matt into the law for illegally shooting
a wolf.
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- Crash
- by Jerry Spinelli, 1997, 162
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Short chapters, humor, sports,
and great characters make this a sure win for all readers.
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- Losers, Inc.
- by Claudia Mills, 1998, 150
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- With an appealing mix of classroom
scenes, basketball action, and tentative steps toward maturity,
this humorous book about sixth grade relationships will appeal
to both boys and girls.
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- The View From Saturday
- by E.L. Konigsburg, 1998, 163pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- This is a tale about a team,
a class, aschool, a series of contests, and four unlikely team
members who develop their own special bond.
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- Because of Winn Dixie
- by Kate DiCamillo, 2000, 182pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Because of Winn-Dixie, a big,
ugly, happy dog, 10-year-old Opal learns 10 things about her
long-gone mother from her preacher father. Because of Winn-Dixie,
Opal makes new friends among the somewhat unusual residents of
her new hometown, Naomi, Florida. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal
begins to find her place in the world and let go of some of the
sadness left by her mother's abandonment seven years earlier.
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- Harris and Me
- by Gary Paulsen, 1995, 157pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- A sometimes rude, but extremely
comical tale of two young boys in the country-- up to some serious
mischief. A laugh-out-loud kind of book!
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- Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions
of Georgia Nicolson
- by Louise Rennison, 1999, 227pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- This British author shows us
how growing up in England isn't much different from the states.
Teens all over the world will laugh at the hilarious situations
this character faces.
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- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- by Kimbery Willis Holt, 2001,
247pp., Reading Level: Young Adult
- Nothing ever happens in Toby's
small Texas town. Nothing much until this summer that's full
of big changes. It's tough for Toby when his mother leaves home
to become a country singer. And Toby takes it hard when his best
friend Cal's older brother goes off to fight in Vietnam. But
now their sleepy town is about to get an even bigger jolt with
the arrival of Zachary Beaver, billed as the fattest boy in the
world. Toby is in for a summer unlike any other, a summer sure
to change his life.
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- Eye of the Beholder
- by Daniel Hayes, 2001, 185pp.,
Reading Level: Young Adult
- Tyler and Lymie are sick in
bed and bored out of their minds. But while their hometown plans
a festival for a famous local artist, and folks scramble to find
his last known works of art, the boys hatch a clever plot.
Tyler and Limy create their own sculptures as a joke and discard
them near the artist's studio. But when the sculptures are found
and determined to be authentic, the art world is suddenly abuzz
with news of the amazing discovery--and two boys with great imaginations
are in a lot of trouble.
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- Walk Two Moons
- by Sharon Creech, 1996, 280pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Thirteen-year-old Salamanca
Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps
on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca
tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom
whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after
her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man
until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite
her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air,"
Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her
Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about
her mother
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- Dave at Night
- by Gail Carson Levine, 2001,
278pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Dave's father dies, and his
stepmother does not want to keep him. Suddenly this energetic
young boy is an orphan, living in the Hebrew Home for Boys, also
known as the Hell Hole for Brats. Dave quickly finds himself
battling an abusive schoolmaster, making friends, outsmarting
bullies, and spending his nights hobnobbing with the elite crowd
of the Harlem Renaissance
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- Crazy Lady
- by Jane Leslie Conly, 1995,
180pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Increasingly alienated from
his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the
neighborhood outcasts'Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous
behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service
agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights
against the move.
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