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A Year with Butch and Spike

by Gauthier, Gail

Upon entering the sixth grade, straight-A student Jasper falls under the spell of the dreaded, irrepressible Cootch cousins.

The Window

by Dorris, Michael

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the fam...

Growing Up in Coal Country

by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lily's Crossing

by Giff, Patricia Reilly

During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.

Jip

His Story

by Paterson, Katherine

While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

The Wanderings of Odysseus

The Story of 'The Odyssey

by Sutcliff, Rosemary & Lee, Alan

A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the Trojan War.

Galax-Arena

A Novel

by Rubinstein, Gillian

Kidnapped from an Australian train station, Joella, Peter, and Liane are taken on a rocket to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth perform death-d...

Some of the Kinder Planets

by Wynne-Jones, Tim

A collection of nine stories by the popular Canadian author, including "The Night of the Pomegranate," "Save the Moon for Kerdy Dickus," and "The Hope Bakery."

It's Perfectly Normal

A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

by Harris, Robie H. & Emberley, Michael

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I Am an American

A True Story of Japanese Internment

by Stanley, Jerry

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