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The Penderwicks volume 2
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The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
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Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
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Series
Clementine volume 4
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With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
94 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Description
Grade 4.
When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
8) Ghost Hawk
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
328 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 1
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Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
10) Nightbird
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Description
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.
11) In harm's way
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Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert are determined to save their school from destruction. But just when it seems they?ve finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they?re caught completely off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and suddenly Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 6
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Description
Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink on the bus.
13) Lanie
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Description
Ten-year-old Lanie of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who loves nature and the outdoors, wants to go camping with her family but her favorite aunt teaches Lanie to find the wonders of nature anywhere, even in her own backyard.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Description
Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants. Can Lanie find a way to get along with her neighbor--and find a creative solution to their garden problem?
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
18) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
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Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
19) Nest
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.
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