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21) Adam of the road
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1987
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317 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
23) Holes
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
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163 p. ; 23 cm.
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Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
27) Johnny Tremain
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After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
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130 p. ; 22 cm.
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During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
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Time quintet volume 1
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Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
32) Charlotte's web
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Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
33) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Morrow
Pub. Date
[1983]
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133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1947.
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179 pages : ill.
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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
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"This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's booksJohn Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science, and games. He believed that every book should be made for the reader's enjoyment. Newberyfor whom the prestigious Newbery Medal is namedbecame a celebrated author...
36) King of the wind
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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
37) Out of the dust
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
38) 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.
39) Strawberry girl
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In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.
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