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Written by Judy Blume
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations | 978-0-440-40707-2 (0-440-40707-9) | August 1986 | $6.50/7.99(Canada)
Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.
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Written by Judy Blume
Grades: Grades 4-8
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Adolescence | 978-0-440-48659-6 (0-440-48659-9) | July 1986 | $6.50/7.99(Canada)
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Written by Jen Bryant
Grades: Grades 5-9
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Art & Architecture | 978-0-440-42055-2 (0-440-42055-5) | November 2007 | $6.50/7.99(Canada)
Like her mother, Georgia McCoy is an artist, but her dad looks away whenever he sees her with a sketchbook. Sometimes it’s hard to remember what it was like when her mother was still alive . . . when they were a family . . . when they were happy. But...
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Written by Jen Bryant
Grades: ALL
eBook | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Art & Architecture | 978-0-375-89092-5 (0-375-89092-0) | November 2007 | $6.50/7.99(Canada)
Like her mother, Georgia McCoy is an artist, but her dad looks away whenever he sees her with a sketchbook. Sometimes it’s hard to remember what it was like when her mother was still alive . . . when they were a family . . . when they were happy. But...
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Written by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Grades: Grades 5-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Girls & Women; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Self-Esteem | 978-0-440-42117-7 (0-440-42117-9) | December 2007 | $5.99/7.50(Canada)
Twelve-year-old Chula Sanchez isn’t thin, isn’t beautiful, and because she’s Mexican, isn’t popular in her south Texas town. And now that a car accident has left her father paralyzed and her plagued with seizures, she is poor. But Chula’s father is determined to pull his family out of debt. He sends...
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Written by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Grades: ALL
eBook | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Girls & Women; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Self-Esteem | 978-0-375-89094-9 (0-375-89094-7) | December 2007 | $5.99/7.50(Canada)
Twelve-year-old Chula Sanchez isn’t thin, isn’t beautiful, and because she’s Mexican, isn’t popular in her south Texas town. And now that a car accident has left her father paralyzed and her plagued with seizures, she is poor. But Chula’s father is determined to pull his family out of debt. He sends...
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Written by Margaret Davidson
Grades: Grades 2-6
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | 978-0-440-40019-6 (0-440-40019-8) | December 1987 | $4.99/6.99(Canada)
Today many children dream of playing professional baseball. Perhaps you are one of them. If you have good athletic skills and you work hard, your dream may be realized. But this wasn't always true for athletes in the first part of this century. More was required. A player had to be white. Black players--no matter how well...
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Written by Pedro de Alcantara
Grades: Grades 4-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Performing Arts | 978-0-440-42057-6 (0-440-42057-1) | August 2007 | $5.99/7.50(Canada)
Becky Cohen has a rough life. She’s an outsider everywhere she goes: shunned and mocked at school, at her violin lessons, and at home by her disapproving mother. Her only true friend is her brilliant little brother, newspaper-loving Benjy. She dreams of becoming a great violinist, but at the group lessons...
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Written by Marguerite De Angeli
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-440-40283-1 (0-440-40283-2) | July 1990 | $6.99/8.99(Canada)
As the son of a nobleman, Robin’s destiny is changed suddenly when he falls ill and loses the use of his legs. When the great castle of Lindsay is in danger, Robin discovers that there is more than one way to serve his king.
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Written by Sundee T. Frazier
Grades: Grades 4-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Multigenerational | 978-0-440-42206-8 (0-440-42206-X) | September 2008 | $6.50/7.50(Canada)
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearby! Secretly...
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Written by Patricia Reilly Giff
Grades: Grades K-3
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - School & Education | 978-0-440-40088-2 (0-440-40088-0) | October 1988 | $4.50/6.00(Canada)
Stacy can't wait to start her new class project, making an "About-Me" box. Into it will go special things that she likes. Jiwon's putting a scrap of her old baby dress in her About-Me box. Eddie's putting pictures of food in his. But Stacy can't think of one thing to put in hers.
How can Stacy...
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Written by Stewart Graff and Polly Anne Graff
Grades: Grades 1-4
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Biographical - United States | 978-0-440-40439-2 (0-440-40439-8) | March 1991 | $4.99/6.99(Canada)
From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not speak. She lived in a dark and lonely world--until Annie Sullivan came to teach her. Annie traced letters and words in Helen's hand, and made Helen realize she could...
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Written by Mavis Jukes
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Stepfamilies; Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-440-42122-1 (0-440-42122-5) | December 2005 | $6.50/9.99(Canada)
In this Newbery Honor—winning story from 1984, a new family builds a relationship as a stepfather and stepson celebrate their differences and take heart in their similarities.
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Written by Lenore Look, Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Grades: Grades 1-5
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Siblings; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Asian American | 978-0-375-84930-5 (0-375-84930-0) | May 2009 | $5.99/6.99(Canada)
ALVIN HO IS an Asian American second grader who is afraid of everything—elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most of all, school. He’s so afraid of school that, while he’s there, he never, ever, says a word. But at home he’s a very loud superhero named Firecracker Man, a brother to Calvin and...
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Written by Kate McMullan
Grades: Grades 2-6
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Biographical - United States | 978-0-440-40400-2 (0-440-40400-2) | December 1990 | $5.50/7.50(Canada)
This inspiring biography of Harriet Tubman tells how she helped free over 300 slaves as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad and how she became a nurse, a scout and spy for the Union Forces during the Civil War.
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Written by Lensey Namioka
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-440-41890-0 (0-440-41890-9) | November 2004 | $5.99/6.99(Canada)
FIONA CHENG IS half and half: Her father is Chinese and her mother is Scottish. Fiona looks more like her father than her mother, so people always expect her to be more interested in her Chinese half than her Scottish half. Lately even Fiona’s confused about who she really is.
“A realistic...
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Written by Sally Nemeth
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship; Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories | 978-0-553-49499-0 (0-553-49499-6) | November 2008 | $6.99/7.99(Canada)
“[A] satisfying tale of platonic best friends.”—Booklist
It's the 1970s, and Lucy can’t imagine anything worse than being a giant with the last name of Small . . . unless it’s entering junior high: a whole new set of kids with the same old jokes. Even worse, her dad has headed...
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Written by Gary Paulsen
Grades: Grades 4-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-440-40524-5 (0-440-40524-6) | October 1991 | $5.50/6.50(Canada)
Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard...
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Written by Louis Sachar
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations | 978-0-440-41480-3 (0-440-41480-6) | May 2000 | $6.99/7.99(Canada)
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!
Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL
Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL
Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI
Thursday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MN
Friday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. Wayzata Community...
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Written by Louis Sachar
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations | 978-0-440-41946-4 (0-440-41946-8) | March 2003 | $6.99/9.99(Canada)
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!
Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL
Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL
Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WI
Thursday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MN
Friday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. Wayzata Community...
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Written by Ouida Sebestyen
Grades: Grade 7 & Up
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American | 978-0-440-41346-2 (0-440-41346-X) | January 1997 | $6.50/7.50(Canada)
Lena can recite the Scriptures by heart. Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and to make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind," not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. But winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and...
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Written by Robert Kimmel Smith
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories | 978-0-440-44207-3 (0-440-44207-9) | March 1982 | $5.50/7.99(Canada)
It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At four-feet-eight inches tall he weighs one hundred and nine pounds, and he keeps growing--wider. When his pareents send him to a summer diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their old habits. The joys of candy and doughnuts are...
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Written by Jacqueline Wilson, Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
Grades: Grades 3-7
Trade Paperback | Yearling | Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories | 978-0-440-41806-1 (0-440-41806-2) | April 2002 | $5.99/(Canada)
MANDY WHITE IS a good girl whom the bad girls like to pick on—until a bigger, badder girl makes her her special friend. Tanya is a foster child across the street, and she’s nothing like good little Mandy. She’s fun and she’s tough and she wears really cool clothes. Of course...
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