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2) Paper wishes
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Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
6) Lotería
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
272 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Using a deck of Lotería cards as her muse, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo, a ward of the state who has retreated into silence, finds each shuffle sparking a random memory that, pieced together, brings into focus the events that led to her present situation.
7) Real
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Sometimes Charity cannot control her body and because she has low-functioning autism, Charity cannot communicate her thoughts to anyone else, even though she feels all of the frustrations, fears, and doubts of a typical thirteen-year-old.
10) The hunted
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Series
Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 6
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Description
Ella is out in the country, alone now except for her silent rescuer, Scarface, about whom she knows nothing, while Ed leaves London on a dangerous quest, determined to find Ella and keep his promise to Small Sam that he will reunite sister and brother.
11) What comes next
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Thea, devastated after seeing her best friend die, begins to open to the possibility of new friendships and forgiveness, and comes to believe in what cannot be fully explained.
12) Jubilee
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
14) Stain
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Description
Lyra, the silent princess of daylight, must find a way to make noise and pass a series of tests to stop a pretender from stealing her betrothed prince and crown.
15) Mèo and Bé
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
309 p. ;
Description
In 1964, before the United States enters the Vietnam War, eleven-year-old Bae and her three-footed kitten M�eo must rise above a broken home and the injustices of war to find the comfort, safety, and love of a found family.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Parker hasn't spoken since he watched his father die five years ago. He communicates through writing on slips of paper and keeps track of his thoughts by journaling. A loner, Parker has little interest in school, his classmates, or his future. But everything changes when he meets Zelda, a mysterious young woman with an unusual request: 'treat me like a teenager'"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
373 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"On the sharp crags of tiny Tillings Island lies the secret of Izabella Rae Haywood's sixth birthday. That night, her father vanished, taking her voice, and the truth of what really happened along with him"--
Tillings Island, Rhode Island, witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. On her sixth birthday her father left... and took her voice with him. Eight years later in the summer of 1974, Iz and her mother board the ferry to Tillings...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
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