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Gr 7—10—Laurel's sophomore year is filled with unexpected changes as she goes from homeschool to public school, and then a flower begins to grow on her back...
Gr 5—9—Kristin Levine's stellar novel (Putnam, 2009), set in a small Alabama town in 1917, is a coming-of-age story that deals with segregation, racism, social justice, and friendship...
PreS-Gr 2—The picture book written by Laurie Monopoli and illustrated by Wendy Sefcik provides backstory for The Learning Station's popular song, "Tony Chestnut...
Gr 4—7—Twelve-year-old orphan Cirrus Flux has spent his entire life in a foundling hospital with no knowledge of his parents...
Gr 8 Up—Seventeen-year-old Ruby has been abandoned by her father, her older sister, and now her alcoholic mother...
Gr 8 Up—This tale about orphaned sisters in 1890s New York strikes a gothic chord in Michelle Zink's first book (Little, Brown, 2009) in a planned trilogy...
Gr 9 Up—Sixteen-year old Zoe's mother has cancer, her dad is barely coping with his wife's impending death, and her best friend is moving in Annette Curtis Klause's debut ovel (Delacorte, 1990)...
Gr 7 Up—In a story set at the end of World War I, the poverty of her Texas sharecropping family sends 17-year-old Mercy Kaplan away to support herself...
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