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Little Sister Is Not My Name

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The Twins at St Clare's

Enid Blyton · 171 pages

The twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan are dreading going to St. Clare's boarding school for girls. Determined not to enjoy themselves, they cause lots of trouble and many arguments. But they soon realise that this behaviour isn't helping them, and even find school to be good fun.

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Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe.

Bette Greene · 135 pages

Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, sports, and almost everything else doesn't bother Beth at first. Then she realizes that Philip might be best because she's letting him beat her. Beth knows that she deserves to be Number One--and she's going to prove it! This funny, universal story of a girl learning tha

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What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 204 pages

Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.

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Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 330 pages

## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h

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Cake Pop Crush

Suzanne Nelson · 247 pages

"Alicia Ramirez has always loved baking. Her family owns Say It With Flour, the small bakery in town. And Ali's specialties are cake pops: delicious confections on a stick. But Ali's sweet life turns sour when a sleek coffee shop opens across the street, giving her bakery a run for its money. Worst of all, the owner's son, Dane McGuire, likes to bake, too. He's the new kid in Ali's school ... and

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan · 64 pages

This Newbery Medal winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan s Newbery speech, discussion guide a

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Piper Reed: Navy Brat

Kimberly Willis Holt · 168 pages

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My Happy Life

Rose Lagercrantz · 134 pages

Download This Book ➞➞ https://www.booksyeah.ml/ Dani has been waiting to go to school her whole life, and cannot wait for the joys it will bring, such as the friendship of Ella. However, school also brings many unexpected things that Dani isn't sure she is ready to face.

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The Ghost in the Third Row

Bruce Coville · 135 pages

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A Faraway Island

Annika Thor · 247 pages

In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.

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The Wide-Awake Princess

E.D. Baker · 288 pages

The beautiful princess Gwendolyn is a.k.a sleeping beauty when the fairy curses that she will fall asleep for a hundred years her unbeautiful sister Princess Annabelle must save the day with the help her crush Liam

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My Life in Pink & Green

Lisa Greenwald

When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment.

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Bliss

Kathryn Littlewood · 400 pages

Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.

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Best Friends

Jamie Suzanne · 104 pages

The twins' close friendship is threatened when Jessica is admitted to an exclusive girls' club.

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P.S. Longer Letter Later

Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin · 237 pages

Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

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The Green Ember

S.D. Smith · 368 pages

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every b

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Into the Woods

Lyn Gardner · 427 pages

Pursued by the sinister Dr. DeWilde and his ravenous wolves, three sisters--Storm, the inheritor of a special musical pipe, the elder Aurora, and the baby Any--flee into the woods and begin a treacherous journey filled with many dangers as they try to find a way to defeat their pursuer and keep him from taking the pipe and control of the entire land.

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Binny for Short

Hilary McKay · 304 pages

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Amelia's Notebook

Marissa Moss · 32 pages

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.

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Our Strange New Land

Patricia Hermes · 109 pages

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

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Murder Most Unladylike

Robin Stevens · 360 pages

At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells struggle to find an exciting mystery to investigate and hit pay-dirt when Hazel discovers the dead body of Miss Bell, the science teacher.

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Movie Shoes

Noel Streatfeild · 274 pages

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Anastasia Krupnik

Lois Lowry · 128 pages

Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

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