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• Prairie Lotus

  Park, Linda Sue,

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  Fourteen-year-old Hanna and her father move to the frontier town of LaForge, where Hanna hopes they can finally put down permanent roots. Since her mother's death three years earlier, Hanna and her father have traveled from town to town,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wolf Hollow

  a Novel

  Wolk, Lauren, 1956-

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  Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, 12-year-old Annabelle confronts a bullying newcomer and must defend a traumatized but gentle World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Da Vinci's Cat

  a Novel

  Murdock, Catherine Gilbert,

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  Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Show Me a Sign

  LeZotte, Ann Clare,

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  Free-spirited, inquisitive 11-year-old Mary Lambert loves to spin stories. She's also deaf, as are her father and many others on Martha's Vineyard. No one knows why the island has such a high population of deaf people. Signing is the only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Place to Belong

  Kadohata, Cynthia,

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  Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

• My Life as An Ice Cream Sandwich

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu,

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  In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.

• Indian No More

  McManis, Charlene Willing, 1953-2018,

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  In 1957, ten-year-old Regina Petit's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and forced to leave Oregon, but in Los Angeles her family faces prejudice and she struggles to understand her identity as an Indian far from tribal lands.

• Finding Langston

  Cline-Ransome, Lesa,

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  Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

• The Journey of Little Charlie

  Curtis, Christopher Paul,

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  When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him

• When the World Was Ours

  Kessler, Liz,

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  Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Al Capone Does My Shirts

  Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-

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  A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

• Breaking Stalin's Nose

  Yelchin, Eugene

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  In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values and beliefs.

• Criss Cross

  Perkins, Lynne Rae

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  Provides a coming-of-age tale as a young girl struggles with the hardships of becoming a woman while hanging with her friends, trying to learn to drive, dealing with family dramas, and experiencing life in a new town--all while trying to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dash

  Larson, Kirby,

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  Forced to move with her family to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Mitsi mourns her separation from her beloved dog and tries to keep up with the outside world with the help of a friendly neighbor back…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead End in Norvelt

  Gantos, Jack,

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  In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, 12-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore.

• Elijah of Buxton

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  As the first child born into freedom in a Canadian town for runaway slaves, eleven-year-old Elijah finds himself on a dangerous journey to America to track down an unscrupulous former slave who stole the money from his friend, Mr. Leroy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Esperanza Rising

  Ryan, Pam Muñoz,

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  Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  Taylor, Mildred D.,

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  A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

• One Crazy Summer

  Williams-Garcia, Rita

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  In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn, New York, to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, 11-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turtle in Paradise

  Holm, Jennifer L.

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  Set in 1935, during the Great Depression, an 11-year-old girl nicknamed Turtle goes to live with relatives in Key West, Florida, after her mother takes a job as a housekeeper for a woman who does not like children; as a result, Turtle's…Read moreRead more of this annotation