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1) Okay for now
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Doug Swieteck finds a way to survive by learning plates of Audubon's birds and having an adventure on a Broadway stage.
2) Crunch
Author
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old outsider Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
10) Kringle
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the fifth century A.D., as order retreats from Britain with the departing Roman Army, orphaned, twelve-year-old Kringle determines to rescue his beloved guardian from the evil goblins who terrorize the countryside by kidnapping and enslaving humans and, in the process, with the help of elves and others along the way, discovers his true destiny.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"The Headmaster believes that it is not wise for you to continue to do this. He wants me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord." Dark times are coming to Hogwarts. Following the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry realizes that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. Many deny that the Dark Lord has returned, but Harry is not alone: a secret order meets at Grimmauld Place to fight the dark forces. Harry must allow Professor...
12) Ghost Hawk
Author
Language
English
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.
13) Chirp
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
15) Swallow's dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A priestess by birth on the Bronze Age island that is now Santorini, Leira finds her coming-of-age training cut short when an earthquake destroys her town and leaves her powerful mother disabled. Warned by an oracle that worse is yet to come, the family flees to Crete but finds no sanctuary. A tsunami sends the island into anarchy and Leira must hide her noble status and learn new kinds of strength to help what remains of her family to survive."--Provided...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Language
English
Description
"From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are -- and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never...
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