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 | Appelt, Kathi |
| Kissing Tennessee |
| 118 p. On this one night of the year, the Stardust Dance transforms the Dogwood School cafeteria into a world where stories take place. |
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| Blume, Judy |
| Deenie |
| 144 p. When Deenie sees the brace for the first time, hopes for a modeling career are replaced with abject tears. |
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| Bunting, Eve |
| Blackwater |
| 146 p. Brodie’s perfect summer on the Blackwater River is upturned when a harmless prank results in one person missing and another dead. |
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| DeFelice, Cynthia |
| The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker |
| 149 p. When a consumption epidemic robs Lucas of his entire family, he apprentices himself to a local doctor, and struggles to believe in the power of science in the face of desperate superstition. |
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| Fleischman, Paul |
| Breakout |
| 126 p. A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam. |
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 | Herrick, Steven |
| Love, Ghosts & Facial Hair |
| 114 p. From Australia come these two linked novels of love, loss, and life on the road told in lyrical free verse. |
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| Hoffman, Alice |
| Green Angel |
| 116 p. Left in a place of ash and isolation where nothing grows when her family dies, Green retreats to the ruined realm of her garden. |
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| Lynch, Chris |
| Freewill |
| 148 p. A teenager recovering from the death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town. |
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| Mazer, Harry |
| A Boy at War |
| 104 p. Adam is caught in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the subsequent days searches for his father, a naval officer serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell. |
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| McKillip, Patricia |
| The Changeling Sea |
| 137 p. A floor scrubber and a magician help a prince return to his undersea home and help his half brother, a human trapped in the body of a sea monster, return to land. |
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| Murphy, Rita |
| Harmony |
| 129 p. Found as a baby by an old farm couple in the Tennessee mountains, Harmony has always been different. But, she wants nothing more than to be ordinary, special powers or not. |
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| O’Dell, Scott |
| The Black Pearl |
| 96 p. When Ramon uncovers a fabulous black pearl, he unleashes the wrath of the sea-demon who is its legendary owner. |
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| Paulsen, Gary |
| The Rifle |
| 105 p. A priceless rifle, handcrafted in 1768, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful, contemporary Christmas Eve. |
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| Peck, Robert Newton |
| Bro |
| 150 p. Tug Dockery hates living without his brother, but until Joe is released from prison, Tug is stuck with his grandfather on the ranch where an unspeakable event happened six years ago. |
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| Pietri, Annie |
| Orange Trees of Versailles |
| 131 p. Marion, blessed with a talent for crafting perfumes, serves Louis XIV’s mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue. |
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| Reit, Seymour |
| Guns for General Washington |
| 140 p. In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will attempt to defend Boston by moving 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness. |
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| Rylant, Cynthia |
| Boris |
| 74 p. Cynthia Rylant has written a wondrous series of second-person poems to her cat, all of them bright, resonant, and sentiment-free. |
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| Slade, Arthur |
| Tribes |
| 134 p. For Percy, the loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during the week before graduation. |
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| Wayland, April Halprin |
| girl coming in for a landing |
| 131 p. More than 100 poems, distinguished by refreshing honesty and humor, chronicle the ups and downs of one girl’s on eschool year. |
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| Zindel, Paul |
| The Pigman’s Legacy |
| 114 p. The Pigman has been dead for four years when John and Lorraine visit his empty house and discover... |
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