Best Friends Forever. Harry may be four and three-quarters and Walter may be ninety-two and a half, but that doesn’t stop them from being best friends. Harry loves to go next door to play games with Walter and draw pictures together....
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Author:Stinson, Kathy, Leng, QinSummary: -
Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian...
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Author:Clark, KathySummary:Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II. Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in...
- Author:MOORE, TomSummary:
A touching novella about a young boy growing up in a Newfoundland outport who must learn to live with his mother's death and his father's remarriage.
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Author:OndjakiSummary:Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu's teachers are Cuban, his homework...
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Author:Dick, Tommy, Gilbert, MartinSummary:Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick was killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted from Judaism, Tommy soon found out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he was still a Jew, still a target for murder. On the run and...
- Author:Blume, JudySummary:
Freckle juice is about a class of kids in an American school. Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for 50 cents.
- Author:Ghigna, CharlesSummary:
Experience the adorable first adventures of childhood with this picture book from bestselling author Charles Ghigna and celebrated illustrator Lori Joy Smith. From the first slip down a slide to the first time picking out a book to...
- Author:Thi, Kim Phuc PhanSummary:
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames-before napalm bombs...
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Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:Kids all over the world help collect seeds, weed gardens, milk goats and herd ducks. From a balcony garden with pots of lettuce to a farm with hundreds of cows, kids can pitch in to bring the best and freshest products to their families...
- Author:Anappara, DeepaSummary:
Discover the “extraordinary” ( The Washington Post ) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” ( The New York Times Book Review ),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma)....
- Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:
Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not...
- Author:Kaufman, KathleenSummary:
Ceit Robertson, age ten, is the next Matrarc to the Society, a cultish matriarchal group living in an inconspicuous cul-de-sac in Venice Beach. When Ceit's mother is attacked by spirits from the old world, a failed exorcism results in...
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Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen are eager to begin the next stage of their adventure. "The Stones have stirred," Ava, Hawkwoman and Wise One, tell Owen, "The time is near for the Circle Dance." The stones are the ancient stone circle of...
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Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. Then one day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is abducted from a mall parking lot....
- Author:Doerr, AnthonySummary:
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more "If you'...
- Author:Camia, ShirleySummary:
The blue skies of childhood exist in the warmest of our memories, but what chases us all through the rest of our lives are the storm clouds. This is the premise of Children Shouldn’t Use Knives, a harrowing but exhilarating examination...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few...
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Author:Angus, CharlieSummary:Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman George...
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Author:Haggis-on-Whey, DorisSummary:The fifth volume in the ludicrously misinformative HOW Series For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar pretenders would find the means to put out a...
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