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1. Little women
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Little Women series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
2. Flipped
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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I was pleasantly surprised by how touching and thought provoking this book was. Yes, it's about first crushes, but also so much more.
The different perspectives might even help you to know yourself a little better.
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In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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heart warming coming of age story, the value of friendship
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Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.
4. Nightbird
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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The book starts and you think this is just going to be an ordinary book about a girl in a small town but this is NOT the case!
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Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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In 1971, twelve-year-old Lucy Rossi's dad returns from Vietnam after losing part of his arm, and her whole family must learn to adjust to a new dynamic, but Lucy's friend Milo unknowingly helps her navigate through this difficult time of fear and uncertainty to realize she is much tougher than she thought.
6. Wish girl
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
7. The trap
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Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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Strange, but good all the same. Four kids figure out how to leave their bodies while sleeping, but it's not creepy at all. Lots of friendship and teamwork. First crushes.
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In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.
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13th reality volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.," and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress Jane.
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Series:
100 cupboards volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Henry York goes to Kansas after his parents are kidnapped while traveling. His uncle Frank, aunt Dotty, and cousons Penny, Henrietta, and Anastasia take him in and Henry temporarily sleeps in the attic. He hears thumping behind his wall and peels back the plaster to see what it is. underneeth there are ninety-nine cupboards, each one different. He and Henreitta figure out how to open a few; in one is a bright yellow light and an ocasional pant leg. In another is the smell of thick wet moss and trees. Once they find a way to go through them an adventure begins.
Description:
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.