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62) Secret valentine
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Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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A child makes valentines for her family and then adds a special name to her list. On Valentine's Day she receives a secret valentine in return
64) Visiting day
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Pub. Date
2002
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English
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison
67) Come on, rain
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English
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
68) Foolish hearts
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English
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When she inherits a fortune and multi-million dollar business from her paternal grandmother, Ashiya Walters uses this opportunity to start over and convince her first love, Russell Gilchrist, to give her another chance.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, including poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control...
71) Looking like me
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English
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Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner
74) Show way
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English
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The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
77) Thunder Rose
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English
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Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado
79) Remember us
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
80) Leaving Lymon
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English
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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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