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921. Oh my dog!
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"Twelve-year-old Caroline Kline doesn't believe in miracles. Not after her mom died, and certainly not after her family lost everything in Hurricane Emma. All Caroline wants to do is fit in at school, make some friends, and, above all else, just be normal. But when Caroline takes a job walking Denver, her neighbor's dog, her plans quickly get turned completely upside down. As it turns out, Denver is no ordinary dog: Not only can he talkand not like...
922. Old school
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Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
923. Old Yeller
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4.3 stars
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In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
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"When her video about protecting their beloved state animal goes viral, 12-year-old anxiety-ridden aspiring filmmaker Olive Blackwood bands together with unexpected new friends to create a documentary that will raise awareness - and hopefully get her into Rose City Film Camp"--
925. Oliver Twist
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4.8 stars
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An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
926. Oliver Twist
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4 stars
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Oliver Twist as a mistreated orphan living in a grim workhouse. Hoping to find a better life, young Oliver runs away to London where he becomes involved with a gang of criminals and thieving children. Will Oliver ever find a real home?
927. Olive's ocean
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On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
928. Olivetti
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Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
929. Ollie in between
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"A nonbinary middle-schooler must choose between pretending to be the girl everyone expects them to be and forging their own path forward"--
930. Omar rising
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Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Pakistan.
931. On a wing and a tear
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"Melanie 'Mel' Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since the Robertses moved in with the Halfmoons. And they soon welcome a distinguished guest: Great-grandfather Bat, whose wing is injured, has taken refuge in their old oak tree. A rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game is coming up, with Bat as the star player. Grampa Charlie Halfmoon offers to drive Bat from Chicago down...
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A collection of twelve stories about the residents of the Entrada apartment building and how their lives are linked as multigenerational immigrant families.
933. On thin ice
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Told in alternating voices, this novel follows twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dexter, who reluctantly partner up for Phoebe's figure skating competition when Dexter is cut from the hockey team.
934. On thin ice
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The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it, his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece--first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully; by his friends who have recently abandoned him; by his mother, who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her; and by his father, who's a gambling addict who has lost the rent money....
935. Once for yes
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Told in alternating voices, this is the story of the Odenburgh, a semi-sentient apartment building that helps grieving eleven-year-old Prue and her neighbor Lewis unite the other tenants to save itself from demolition.
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"A collection of thirteen scary stories with shocking twists on everyday reality, from an innocent set of dark, dusty basement stairs to a piano recital that requires unusual sacrifices"--
937. Once upon a camel
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In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.
938. One alley summer
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"The summer before middle school is a time of anxiety and change. A pitch-perfect novel in verse about one girl's wish to simultaneously break free and to belong. In the summer before her first year of middle school, word-chanting, rope-skipping Phee skips her way to imagined fame, writes down her innermost secret thoughts from the safety of a treehouse, and imagines in horror that her new classmates will eat her alive. Suddenly, her well-worn alley...
939. One big open sky
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"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
940. One for the Murphys
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"After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love"--