Heart of a Samurai
By: Margi Preus
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2011 Newbery Honor BookIn 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a …
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1. Sing Down the Moon
By: Scott O'Dell
3.76
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, f… read more
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2. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
By: Grace Lin
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the f… read more
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3. Rascal
By: John Schoenherr , Sterling North
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a … read more
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4. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
By: Adam Gidwitz , Hatem Aly
4.00
Format: None pages,
An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. … read more
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5. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By: Phillip Hoose
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take… read more
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6. Breaking Stalin's Nose
By: Eugene Yelchin
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet You… read more
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7. The Moffats (The Moffats, #1)
By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin
4.01
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Four Moffat children and a hard-working widowed mother live on New Dollar Street in Cranbury villag… read more
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8. Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
By: Sheila Turnage
4.03
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and E.B. White Read-Aloud Ho… read more
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"Some people look like they were born on a clothes hanger. Not me. I look more like I was born in a dryer."-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I'v…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride.... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
"Is it true, then, Mayor?" Grandmother Miss Lacy Thornton warbled from the end of the counter. "Is Jesse Tatum officially dead?" "Dead is such an unflattering term," he said, sliding onto his stool. "…"-Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries, #1)
9. Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles, #5)
By: Laurence Yep
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider … read more
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10. Heart of a Samurai
By: Margi Preus
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2011 Newbery Honor BookIn 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a … read more
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11. 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
12. The Year of Billy Miller
By: Kevin Henkes
4.11
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in … read more
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13. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
By: Rodman Philbrick
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, witty Civil War tale from bestselling author Rodman Philbrick Master storyteller Rodma… read more
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"Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching"-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap."-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
"I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching int…"-Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
14. Splendors and Glooms
By: Laura Amy Schlitz
3.91
Format: 631 pages,
The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they … read more
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15. M.C. Higgins, the Great
By: Virginia Hamilton
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah… read more
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16. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
By: Jean Lee Latham
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more
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17. The Book of Boy
By: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
3.83
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a large hump on his back,… read more
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18. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)
By: Rita Williams-Garcia
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more
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19. Toliver's Secret
By: Esther Wood Brady
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more
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20. One Came Home
By: Amy Timberlake
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Newbery Honor Book An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Be… read more
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21. Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
By: Gail Jarrow
4.01
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Gail Jarrow explores the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. She highlights the art… read more
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