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Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
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Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
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KIDS Fic VENKATR
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KIDS Fic VENKATR
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KIDS FIC VENKATR
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KIDS FIC VENKATR
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Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
4) Harbor me
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Kids - Fiction - Middle Grade
KIDS Fic WOODSON
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KIDS Fic WOODSON
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KIDS Fic WOODSON
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KIDS Fic WOODSON
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
5) El Deafo
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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KIDS Fic WEEKS
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KIDS Fic WEEKS
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KIDS Fic WEEKS
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KIDS Fic WEEKS
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Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
8) Real friends
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When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique.
9) Restart
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Kids - Book Storage - Storage
KIDS Fic KORMAN
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KIDS Fic KORMAN
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KIDS Fic KORMAN
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KIDS Fic KORMAN
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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KIDS Fic APPLEGA
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KIDS Fic APPLEGA
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KIDS AWARDS APPLEGA
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KIDS AWARDS APPLEGA
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
11) Smile
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An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence.
12) Posted
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When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
13) Holes
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
14) Fish in a tree
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KIDS Fic HUNT
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KIDS Fic HUNT
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KIDS AWARDS HUNT
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KIDS AWARDS HUNT
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
16) Wonder
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KIDS FIC PALACIO
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KIDS FIC PALACIO
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KIDS Fic PALACIO
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KIDS Fic PALACIO
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KIDS FIC PALACIO
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KIDS FIC PALACIO
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
17) Wishtree
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"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
18) Out of my mind
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Kids - Fiction
KIDS Fic DRAPER
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KIDS Fic DRAPER
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YA Fic DRAPER
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YA Fic DRAPER
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YA Fic DRAPER
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YA Fic DRAPER
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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
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KIDS Fic BUYEA
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KIDS Fic BUYEA
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Kids - Fiction
KIDS Fic BUYEA
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KIDS Fic BUYEA
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Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.