| Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting. |
Two stories cross near the village of Treegap during the hot August days in 1880's, days which are a curious mixture of violence and love, of anguish and tranquillity.
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| Bellairs, John |
Curse of the Blue Figurine. |
A mysterious stranger gives Johnny Dixon a magic ring that plunges him into a terrifying adventure with the ghost Father Baart.
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| Blume, Judy |
Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great. |
A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.
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| Burch, Robert |
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain. |
Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons.
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| Byars, Betsy |
Cracker Jackson. |
After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.
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| Cameron, Eleanor |
Court of the Stone Children. |
Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon.
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| Conford, Ellen |
Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate. |
When she takes on the advice column for her school newspaper, Carrie encounters more problems than she expects.
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| Danziger, Paula |
Cat Ate My Gymsuit. |
When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings in insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.
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| De Clements, Barthe |
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade. |
A fifth grade class, repelled by an overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.
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| Eyerly, Jeannette |
Seeing Summer. |
After her initial shock, Carey adjusts to having a blind playmate and takes it upon herself to locate her friend when she is kidnaped.
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| Gilson, Jamie |
Do Bananas Chew Gum? |
Able to read and write at only a second grade level, sixth-grader Sam Mott considers himself dumb until a secret ambition prompts him to cooperate with those who think something can be done about his problem.
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| Greenwald, Sheila |
Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole. |
Uncle Ralph's books about Rosy's two older sisters, a dancer and an equestrian, made them famous. Now it is untalented, 10-year-old Rosy's turn, and when Uncle Ralph gets out his camera determined to make Rosy and her violen his next book, Rosy's troubles begin.
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It All Began with Jane Eyre. |
Avid reading and a vivid imagination get Franny Dillman into hot water when she turns from the classics to modern teenage novels.
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| Hamilton, Virginia |
House of Dies Drear. |
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
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| Harrison, Harry |
Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. |
Humorous accounts of specially trained and bred pigs and of the Robot Obtrusion Battalion give eleven thousand new space policemen insight into possible assignments.
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| Heide, Florence P. |
Mystery of the Forgotten Island. |
The Spotlight Club detectives discover strange happenings and stage a thrilling rescue on a forgotten island in the north woods.
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| Hildick, Edmund W. |
Case of the Snowbound Spy. |
The McGurk sleuths accept a job from a stranger in town, only to find they are assisting in high-level industrial espionage.
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| Hughes, Dean |
Family Pose. |
Feeling unwanted, an eleven-year-old orphan runs away from his foster home and lives on the streets until he finds a new type of family at a hotel.
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| Hurwitz, Johanna |
Baseball Fever. |
Ten-year-old Ezra tries to convince his scholarly father that his baseball fever is not wasting his mind.
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| Kibbe, Pat |
Hocus-Pocus Dilemma. |
Convinced she has psychical powers, a ten-year-old girl makes predictions for the members of her large family which seem to come true.
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| Knudson, Rozanne R. |
Rinehart Lifts. |
Disappointed that her best friend is the worst athlete in the fifth grade, Zan Hagen interests Arthur Rinehart in lifting weights.
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| L'Engle, Madelein |
Wrinkle in Time. |
Meg Murray and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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| MacDonald, Reby E. |
Ghosts of Austwick Manor. |
Hilary and Heather find themselves entering the sixteenth century as a direct result of their older brother Don's inheritance. Will they be able to save Don who is in grave danger from an ancient curse?
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| MacLachlan, Patricia |
Arthur, For the Very First Time. |
Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.
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| McHugh, Elisabet |
Raising a Mother Isn't Easy. |
An eleven-year-old Korean orphan adopted by a single woman decides that her mother should have a husband.
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| Miles, Betty |
Secret Life of the Underwear Champ. |
Ten-year-old Larry is "discovered" on the street and asked to appear in a television commercial. Only later does he find out what he is advertising.
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| Park, Barbara |
Don't Make Me Smile. |
A young boy has trouble adjusting to his parent's divorce.
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| Paterson, Katherine |
Bridge to Terabithia. |
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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| Peck, Robert N. |
Soup. |
The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
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| Pfeffer, Susan B. |
Kid Power. |
Eleven-year-old Janie advertises to do odd jobs in her neighborhood and receives so much business, she hires her friends and becomes manager of the Kid Power Agency.
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| Pinkwater, Daniel M. |
Lizard Music. |
When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.
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| Roberts, Willo D. |
Girl with the Silver Eyes. |
A ten-year-old girl who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.
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| Robinson, Jean |
Strange, but Wonderful, Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon. |
Picked on by younger boys, Duffy Moon becomes a student of cosmic awareness and develops talents and powers beyond those he expected.
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| Salassi, Otto R. |
And Nobody Knew They Were There. |
For reasons of its own, a squad of Marines disappears after a recruiting assignment at a Houston fairgrounds: but its discovery by two thirteen-year-old boys jeopardizes its plans.
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| Sargent, Sarah |
Weird Henry Berg. |
Henry is determined to keep his unusual pet lizard despite his mother's objections and the claims of a strange lady that his pet is really a baby dragon.
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| Smith, Doris B. |
Taste of Blackberries. |
A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his best friend.
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| Smith, Robert K. |
War With Grandpa. |
Upset that he has to give up the room he loves to his grandfather, Pete decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.
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| Uchida, Yoshida |
Journey Home. |
After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
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