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Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby)

by Beverly Cleary

Published: 2013-03-19

Paperback: 240 pages

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Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough to do it too!Then she gets into trouble for pulling her classmate's boingy curls during recess. Even worse, her ...

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Freak The Mighty

by Rodman Philbrick

Published: 2001-06-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Two boys – a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces – forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. (Made into the film, The Mighty.)  

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The Children Act

by Ian McEwan

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 240 pages

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One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sor...

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Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards))

by Jacqueline Woodson

Published: 2012-10-02

Hardcover: 32 pages

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WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR!Each kindness makes the world a little betterThis unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and strikin...

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Risky Undertaking: A Buryin' Barry Mystery (Buryin' Barry Series)

by Mark de Castrique

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 251 pages

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When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site expanding a local cemetery, the dual occupations of Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro, North Carolina’s most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy...

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Ishmael's Oranges

by Claire Hajaj

Published: 2014-08-12

Hardcover: 226 pages

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It’s April 1948 and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family orange tree with his father; the next he is swept away by ?the great catastrophe” into a life of exile. Meanwhile Jude is growing up in the north of England...

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In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

by Matt Bell

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 336 pages

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In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a fam...

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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Adam Johnson

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 442 pages

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. “Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Was...

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Paperback: 640 pages

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The Incorrigible Optimists Club

by Jean-Michel Guenassia

Published: 2015-05-07

Paperback: 640 pages

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"Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world - of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian...