Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)
By: Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Beverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecu…
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1. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
By: Joan W. Blos
3.54
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book. So begins the journal… read more
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"For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?"-Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
2. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)
By: Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Beverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecu… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- juvenile
3. Shiloh (Shiloh, #1)
By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sig… read more
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4. Maniac Magee
By: Jerry Spinelli
4.00
Format: 222 pages,
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an… read more
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5. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
By: Richard Peck
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more
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6. Criss Cross
By: Lynne Rae Perkins
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in … read more
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7. Lincoln: A Photobiography
By: Russell Freedman
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. Th… read more
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"I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongs…"-Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
8. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
By: Paul Fleischman , Eric Beddows
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noiseis a collection of… read more
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9. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
By: Nancy Willard , Alice Provensen , Martin Provensen
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by William Blake'sSongs of Innocenceand Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of… read more
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10. Missing May
By: Cynthia Rylant
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Sc… read more
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11. The Summer of the Swans
By: Betsy Byars
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Sometimes you don't know what you love--until you almost lose it. Sara's fourteenth summer was turn… read more
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12. Jacob Have I Loved
By: Katherine Paterson
3.69
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever… read more
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"Thinking about myself as a crazy, independent old woman made me feel almost happy."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied"-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"In February the weather sometimes gave us a vacation, in August, never. We just got up earlier every morning until finally we met ourselves going to bed."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
"Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear."-Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
13. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Russell Freedman
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a wh… read more
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14. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
By: Patricia MacLachlan
3.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more
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- fiction
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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
15. ...And Now Miguel
By: Jean Charlot , Joseph Krumgold
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
He wanted to be treated like a man, not a child. Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a … read more
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16. Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)
By: Eleanor Estes
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard y… read more
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17. The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)
By: Susan Patron
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-ol… read more
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18. Sounder
By: William H. Armstrong , James Barkley
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Soun… read more
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19. The Whipping Boy
By: Peter Sís , Sid Fleischman
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses … read more
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20. The View from Saturday
By: E.L. Konigsburg
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more
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21. Shadow Of A Bull
By: Maia Wojciechowska
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Manolo Olivar was the son of his father. Which may not seem like a necessary thing to say. But in M… read more
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