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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
3) Purge
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 22 cm.
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When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.
6) Twelve
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Winnie years volume 2
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Winnie relates the events of her twelfth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
9) The list
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Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
11) Circle dogs
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Circle dogs live in a square house with a square yard and spend a busy day eating circle snacks, digging circle holes, and sleeping.
12) Zoom
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
13) Kidogo
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.
14) Before I fall
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After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
16) The other side
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
18) What the cat saw
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Series
Nela Farley mysteries volume 1
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Since her fiancé's death, Nela Farley has been plagued by the sense that she understands the thoughts of cats. Nela knows it's irrational, and decides that she's just transferring her own thoughts. Then her sister, Chloe, goes on a trip and asks Nela to fill in at her job. Arriving at the place Chloe arranged for her to stay, Nela sees the previous tenant's cat and thinks: ". . . dead and gone . . . she loved me . . . board rolled on the second step...
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Boxer Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Description
Little Mole goes on a journey to see the world. He asks each animal he meets how big the world is, and they all give progressively larger answers, ranging from the size of a spider's web to an endless ocean.
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