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The Tulip Touch - A Novel

by Fine, Anne

Natalie, who lives in the large hotel managed by her father, has a dangerous friendship with Tulip, the wildly uncontrollable girl on a neighboring farm.

Time of Fire

by Westall, Robert

In England during World War II, with his mother dead from a German bomb and his father off in training and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny tri...

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.

A Girl Named Disaster

by Farmer, Nancy

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and...

The Cuckoo's Child

by Freeman, Suzanne

Eleven-year-old Mia refuses to believe that her parents are not coming back after they're reported lost at sea.

Mary Wolf

by Grant, Cynthia A.

Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.

I Am an American

A True Story of Japanese Internment

by Stanley, Jerry

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Earthshine

by Nelson, Theresa

Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

Over the Water

by Casey, Maude

Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where her family lives and in Ireland where they're from, until she and her family visit her grandm...

Catherine, Called Birdy

by Cushman, Karen

The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventure...