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Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis stunningly beautiful picture book from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Eliza Wheeler is based on her grandmother's childhood and pays homage to a family's fortitude as they discover the meaning of home...Categorized as:
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![The Dance in the Dark by Sophie Cleverly]()
The Dance in the Dark by Sophie Cleverly
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomething is brewing in the halls of Rookwood School... For twin sisters Scarlet and Ivy, boarding school has been a horrid mix of murderous headmasters, painful punishments, and vicious classmates. But it's a new year, and things are looking up. The kindly Mrs. Knight is in charge, their classmates have been civil, and the weather is even brightening up...Categorized as:
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![Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall]()
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around...Categorized as:
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![Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman]()
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAn international bestseller: Grace learns that she can be anything she wants...Categorized as:
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![A Season of Joy by Gerald N. Lund]()
A Season of Joy by Gerald N. Lund
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe popular, award-winning series The Work and the Glory continues with A Season of Joy, which literally spans the globe as it follows the story of the restored Church and the fictional Steed family through two eventful years (1839-1841)...Categorized as:
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![Eleven by Tom Rogers]()
Eleven by Tom Rogers
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlex Douglas always wanted to be a hero. But nothing heroic ever happened to Alex. Nothing, that is, until his eleventh birthday. When Alex rescues a stray dog as a birthday gift to himself, he doesn't think his life can get much better. Radar, his new dog, pretty much feels the same way. But this day has bigger things in store for both of them. This is a story about bullies and heroes...Categorized as:
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![A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French]()
A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a‐waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers...Categorized as:
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![Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney, Patricia C. McKissack]()
Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney, Patricia C. McKissack
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings1950s Nashville, Tennessee is segregated, and black people are persecuted, but young Tricia Ann is determined to venture on her own across town to someplace special. A must read book about persecution of minorities, but also about hope and light... -
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Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fourth book in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, Winter Holiday takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett to the North Pole. Joined by budding novelist Dorethes Callum and her scientist brother Dick, the children plan an "Arctic" expedition...Categorized as:
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![Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee]()
Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was scared.'Whatever you do,' I said to Davey on the walk to school, 'Do not tell people about your eagle. Do not tell Miss Schweitzer about your eagle.'He looked crestfallen. His shoulders slumped. He looked to make sure Timothy hadn't fallen off...Categorized as:
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![Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg]()
Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConsidered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels...Categorized as:
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Walk About by Aaron Fletcher
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrested from the primordial Australian wilderness, Tibooburra Station had taken the blood, sweat and tears of generations of Kerricks and given them a magnificent heritage in return. But now the golden legacy of the outback station was threatened by the disappearance of the young boy who would one day inherit it all... -
![The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green]()
The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter the death of her client, midwife Julianne Chevalier is imprisoned and branded, marking her as a criminal beyond redemption. Hoping to reunite with her brother, a soldier, she trades her life sentence for exile to the fledgling French colony of Louisiana. The price of her transport, however, is a forced marriage to a fellow convict.New Orleans is nothing like Julianne expects... -
![The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain]()
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery…but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim...Categorized as:
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![Sapphire Battersea by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt]()
Sapphire Battersea by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her beautiful new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But things don't always go as planned.…Follow the twists and turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man...Categorized as:
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![A Worthy Pursuit by Karen Witemeyer]()
A Worthy Pursuit by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStone Hammond is the best tracker in Texas. He never comes home empty-handed. So when a wealthy railroad investor hires him to find his abducted granddaughter, Stone eagerly accepts. Charlotte Atherton, former headmistress of Sullivan’s Academy for Exceptional Youths, will do anything to keep her charges safe, especially the little girl entrusted to her care after her mother’s death...Categorized as:
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![Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana]()
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsArmani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. She's having a party, her mama is making a big cake, and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Turning ten years old is a big deal to Armani. It means she's older, wiser, more responsible...Categorized as:
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![Along a Storied Trail by Ann H. Gabhart]()
Along a Storied Trail by Ann H. Gabhart
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in her books...Categorized as:
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![The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day...Categorized as:
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![Glitch by Laura Martin]()
Glitch by Laura Martin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Float comes a new whirlwind adventure about a pair of kids who must break all the rules of time travel, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and John David Anderson.Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers—people who travel through time to preserve important historical events...Categorized as:
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![Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes]()
Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world as Hollywood's beloved leading lady, she is determined to forge a new life in obscurity in this time-forgotten Colorado haven. She purchases Wildwood--an abandoned estate with a haunting history--and begins to restore it to its former glory... -
![Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce]()
Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFinalist for the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Agatha Christie Award, and the Anthony Boucher Award! Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective—is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre murders in her hometown of Swinburne and picking up right where she left off in Premeditated Myrtle and How to Get Away with Myrtle...Categorized as:
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![The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco]()
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Mary Ellen gets bored with her reading, Grandpa knows a hunt for a bee tree is just what she needs. Half the town joins the exciting chase, but it's not until everyone returns home that Mary Ellen makes a discovery of her own: Sometimes, even the sweetest of things must be worked for...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the historic grizzly bear attacks in Glacier National Park in this latest installment of the groundbreaking I Survived series.No grizzly has ever killed a human in Glacier before . . . until tonight...Categorized as:
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![That Book Woman by Heather Henson]()
That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some chicken scratch. But that Book Woman keeps coming just the same. She comes in the rain. She comes in the snow...Categorized as:
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![Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg]()
Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression. Terpsichore can’t wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s footsteps . . . now she just has to convince her mom...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 by Lauren Tarshis, Scott Dawson]()
I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 by Lauren Tarshis, Scott Dawson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis provides a birds-eye view of one of America's most ghastly accidents ever be captured on film, the Hindenburg Disaster of 1937.The greatest flying machine ever built is about to crash...For eleven-year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true...Categorized as:
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![Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour]()
Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Children's Blizzard or the Great Blizzard of 1888, caught people completely by surprise and resulted in 235 fatalities, including several children in one-room schoolhouses. What made the storm so deadly was the timing, the suddenness, and the brief spell of warmer weather that preceded it...Categorized as:
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![Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume]()
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists—a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCould an entire city really burn to the ground?Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode...Categorized as:
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![Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer]()
Saturday, the Twelfth of October by Norma Fox Mazer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter spending almost a year with cave people from an earlier time, a young girl is transported back to the present greatly changed, both by her experience and by the fact that no one believes her...Categorized as:
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![LOS PREHISTORRATONES 10: ¡LLUEVEN MALAS NOTICIAS, STILTONUT! by Geronimo Stilton]()
LOS PREHISTORRATONES 10: ¡LLUEVEN MALAS NOTICIAS, STILTONUT! by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeronimo Stiltonoot and The Stone Gazette are in the running for the Stone Age Ratitzer: the award for the best prehistoric journalism! But their main competition is Sally Rockmousen, the ruthless host of Gossip Radio -- and she'll stop at nothing to win...Categorized as:
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![Pack Up Your Troubles: War at Home 6 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
Pack Up Your Troubles: War at Home 6 by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed...Categorized as:
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![Song of the Sea (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris]()
Song of the Sea (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaider is almost killed boarding the LIGHTNING to save Rosie from the cruel Captain Lawrence, who has kidnapped, tormented and imprisoned her. Rosie nurses his wounds and tries to forget his surprising kiss, while she prays for his life.and for her own strength to resist him. For she knows there's no room in his life for love...Categorized as:
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![Weather the Storm (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris]()
Weather the Storm (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Raider takes Rosie to England she finds no living kin-and long buried family secrets. When Raider offers to take Rosie to New Orleans, she sees no other option. But it is a journey that brings her closer than ever to the daring buccaneer who has captured her heart.yet farther from the romantic dream that torments her...Categorized as:
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![Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz]()
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degrees ) is a major publishing moment. A new World War II novel from Alan Gratz? That's even bigger! Get ready for an action-packed, inventive, and powerful take on the attack on Pearl Harbor, as only Alan Gratz can tell it. December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good...Categorized as:
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![4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss]()
4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiagnosed with a rare form of meningitis, a teenage boy is paralyzed from head to toe--trapped in his own mind. To cope with his imprisonment, he retreats to an imaginary world called his Mind Palace, but the lines between reality and time blur into wild adventures after he gets a new roommate--an old, outspoken, Jewish jazz musician with dementia...Categorized as:
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![The Red Cotton Fields by Michael D. Strickland]()
The Red Cotton Fields by Michael D. Strickland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Red Cotton Fields is a story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer’s family, and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War... -
![The Texan's Dream by Jodi Thomas]()
The Texan's Dream by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNineteenth-century Texas was alive with lovers and scoundrels, drifters and dreamers. It was a land brimming with wild, glorious passions—passions USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas tenderly evokes in this exquisite new novel…Fleeing trouble in Pittsburgh, young Kara O’Riley has no choice but to travel as far West as her meager funds will take her... -
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Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas by Jonathan W. Stokes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSmooth-talking, refined twelve-year-old Addison Cooke loves a grand adventure, especially one that involves using his vast knowledge of history and archaeology, learned from his aunt and uncle, both world-famous researchers. If that adventure includes an expertly-knotted Windsor tie and an Arnold Palmer on the rocks, all the better.Luckily for Addison, adventure has a way of finding the Cookes... -
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Pirate by Steven Becker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter decades at sea, pirate legend Jose' Gasparilla is prepared to retire. As he and his crew split their treasure, the promise of one final prize lures the ship back into action. Little do they know that the purported riches are nothing but a trap set by the fledgling U.S. Navy! With the crew decimated and the treasure scattered, a new leader must rise from the defeat...Categorized as:
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Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s hard to escape the secrets from the past. Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert’s summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket—but that’s not the only thing he’s after. Suddenly, dark secrets from Robert’s past plunge him into danger. Jack is playing a cruel game that Robert is wrapped up in...Categorized as:
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![Breathing Room by Marsha Hayles]()
Breathing Room by Marsha Hayles
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvvy Hoffmeister is thirteen years old when her family brings her to Loon Lake Sanatorium to get cured of tuberculosis (TB). Evvy is frightened by her new surroundings; the rules to abide are harsh and the nurses equally rigid. But Evvy soon falls into step with the other girls in her ward...Categorized as:
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![Heidi by Deidre S. Laiken, Johanna Spyri]()
Heidi by Deidre S. Laiken, Johanna Spyri
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHeidi, of the majestic Swiss Alps, finds beauty and wisdom in nature. Living in isolation with Grandfather and two goats, she develops a special feeling for the plants and animals in their hills and valleys. Her life changes when she is urged to study in a city. She befriends an invalid girl but is homesick for her mountain life...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCalifornia continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart-pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and -- despite the destruction -- find hope in the ashes.The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires...Categorized as:
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![The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley]()
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world... -
![Emerald Star by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt]()
Emerald Star by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fantastic new adventure for brave, feisty Hetty Feather - one of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved characters.Since leaving the Foundling Hospital, Hetty has seen her fair share of drama, excitement, tragedy and loss. After the death of her beloved mama, she sets off to find a real home at last – starting with the search for her father... -
![The American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis]()
The American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops.This Revolutionary War had started as a thrilling fight for freedom...
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