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3) Cookie
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Plain and timid Beauty Cookson is teased by popular girls at school, but even worse are the unrelenting criticism and rage from her bad-tempered father, until the day her sweet mother discovers a way out.
4) Trixie ten
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
The youngest of ten children, Trixie grows tired of all the noise and sets off on her own to find a quiet place.
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
8) Wild life
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 22 cm.
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When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 20 cm.
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While searching the woods that used to be their personal sanctuary, twelve-year-old Aubrey recalls the events and incidents preceding their best friend's disappearance and quietly questions their own gender identity
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
637, [639] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p1992
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs. 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The boxcar children: Four orphaned siblings set up house in an abandoned boxcar because they think their grandfather is mean; but they realize he is nice and they move into his house and live happily ever after.
Surprise Island: The Alden children spend living on their grandfather's island.
The yellow house mystery: The Alden children determine to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things...
13) Bud, not Buddy
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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Series
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Durante la Gran Depresión, Bud, un niño que tiene 10 años, se escapa de su familia adoptiva y va en búsqueda de su padre. Bud cree que su padre es un gran músico.
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she 'broaden her horizons' and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
17) Pippi on the run
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Pippi, Tommy, and Annika have all kinds of adventures when they run away together.
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