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  The Westing Game

  by Ellen Raskin

  When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will . . . and what a will it is!
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  If You Come Softly

  by Jacqueline Woodson

  Miah and Ellie are in love. Theirs is a rare and special first love. But the people around them don’t see it that way. They can only see black and white: Miah is black, Ellie is white, and Jewish; and their love, no matter how real, is too strange and scary for the world they live in.
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  Replay

  by Sharon Creech

  Leo's papa stood in the doorway, gazing down at him. "Leo, you make gold from pebbles," and the way he said it, Leo could tell that this was a good thing. He may have been given a bit part in the school play ... but Leo dreams he is the biggest star on Broadway. Sure, his big, noisy family makes him feel like a sardine squashed in a tin ... but in his fantasy he gets all the attention he wants. Yes, his papa... (more)
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  Brown Paper School book: Book of Think: Or How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size (A Brown Paper School Book)

  by Marilyn Burns

  Chock full of entertaining mathematical ideas, puzzles, tricks, and word problems, this book proves that everyone can be a math whiz. "Students can't help but grow in mathematical skills and positive attitudes."--School Library Journal.
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  It's Like This, Cat

  by Emily Chene Neville

  Dave Mitchell is fourteen and growing up in the midst of the variety and excitement of New York City. In this quiet, reflective, and humorous story of a boy's journey toward adulthood, Emily Neville captures the flavor of one kind of New York boyhood -- the sights and sounds of Gramercy Park, Coney Island, the Fulton Fish Market, the Bronx Zoo, the stickball games played in city streets, the fascinating mixture of... (more)
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  Goodbye, Vietnam

  by Gloria Whelan

  "When Mai's family discovers that Vietnam government soldiers will soon apprehend her father and grandmother, the family slips away in the night. They trudge through the swamps of the Mekong Delta toward the sea. The gut-wrenching trip to Hong Kong is just another step toward a new life, which the family eventually finds. Whelan's characters are distinctive, and her story is riveting, haunting, and memorable,... (more)
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  A Deadly Game of Magic

  by Joan Lowery Nixon

  Seeking shelter from a fierce Texas storm, four teens are trapped inside a strange house as unwitting players in a magician's evil games. The phone goes dead. A plaster head suddenly appears. A disembodied hand taps the mantel. Then the magic turns even more sinister, leading inevitably toward murder.
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  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

  by Joan W. Blos

  This novel, written in diary form, tells of "a pivotal year for 19th-century New Englander Catherine Cabot Hill--one of change, loss, and leave taking . . . a low-key, intense and reflective book."--School Library Journal, starred review. 1980 Newbery Award book.
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  Echoes of the White Giraffe

  by Sook Nyul Choi

  In a sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sookan, now fifteen, is a refugee again and survives the repressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea in the 1940s by making a dangerous escape to freedom. Reprint. K. PW. VY. AB.
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  The Star Fisher

  by Laurence Yep

  It is 1927, and Joan Lee and her family have just moved to West Virginia to open a laundry and start new lives. But the Lees are the first Chinese-Americans that Clarksburg has ever seen, and not everyone in town is ready to welcome them. "A forceful picture of prejudice and persecution . . . and a touching picture of courage and patience in enduring both."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
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  No Coins, Please!

  by Gordon Korman

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  Gentle Annie : The True Story of a Civil War Nurse

  by Mary Francis Shura

  A fictional biography chronicles the career of Annie Etheridge, a nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War, who faced danger side by side with the troops and who became renowned for her courage and devotion to duty. Reprint. PW. K. AB.
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  The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  by C. S. Lewis

  How Aslan, the noble lion, freed Narnia from the spell of the White Witch.
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  Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in the Little House (Women of Our Time)

  by Patricia Reilly Giff

  Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up during the pioneer days of America. To the delight of millions of readers, she spent her adulthood recounting her girlhood memories. The story behind the creator of the beloved Little House books "provides dimension and insight."--Booklist.
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  Dragon's Gate (Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1867)

  by Laurence Yep

  In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle... (more)