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My Happy Life

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Changes for Molly: A Winter Story

Valerie Tripp · 67 pages

Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war.

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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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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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Sleepovers

Jacqueline Wilson · 112 pages

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Jack Gantos · 160 pages

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Dana Simpson · 224 pages

A boy and his dog . . . a girl and her . . . unicorn? It all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indee

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Like Bug Juice on a Burger

Julie Sternberg · 192 pages

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Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 335 pages

When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to

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Claudia and Mean Janine

Raina Telgemeier, Ann M. Martin · 175 pages

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Horse Crazy

Bonnie Bryant · 135 pages

Carole and Stevie are happy to find that Lisa, the new student at Pine Hollow Stables, shares their enthusiam for riding and horses and, as their friendship grows, the three girls decide to form the Saddle Club.

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Clementine, Friend of the Week

Sara Pennypacker · 161 pages

With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

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What Katy Did at School

Susan Coolidge · 188 pages

Katy and her sister Clover dread being sent away to boarding school, but discover that being away from home isn't so bad after all.

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The Truth About Stacey

Raina Telgemeier · 144 pages

America's favorite baby-sitters come to life in a new graphic novel series! Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help. Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends -- Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together they're the BSC -- and they will deal with whatever's thrown th

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

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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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Karen's School Picture

Ann M. Martin · 104 pages

Karen has to get glasses -- two pairs! One pair for reading and one for all the time. Karen does not want glasses. Her school pictures are going to be taken soon! But Karen has to... so she picks out some pretty pink and blue ones. Karen thinks she looks very grown-up. Then Yicky Ricky at school calls her Four-eyes. If Karen wears her glasses for the picture, Ricky will make fun of her. But Karen'

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The O'Sullivan Twins

Enid Blyton · 183 pages

It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their friends at St. Clare's once more. The new girls prove to be a source of much amusement, and there is all the fun of boarding-school life as well.

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Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years

Cynthia Rylant · 164 pages

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

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The Betsy-Tacy Treasury

Maud Hart Lovelace

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Good Job, Kanani

Lisa Yee

Kanani wants to help. She's having a great time raising money to protect the Hawaiian monk seal by selling shave ice at the beach. If only she hadn't promised her best friend, Celina, that they would be surfing buddies. Although she doesn't want to admit it, Kanani thinks surfing is a little scary. When Celina finds another surfing partner, Kanani finds herself alone- and lonely. She b

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Ramona's World

Beverly Cleary · 192 pages

To the delight of Ramona Quimby readers everywhere, Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary has just made Ramona's world a little bit bigger.As she starts the fourth grade, Ramona believes that this year will be "the best year of her life, so far." She can show off her calluses from swinging on the rings in the park; the boy she calls Yard Ape sits across the aisle from her; her teacher praise

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Ava the Sunset Fairy

Daisy Meadows · 71 pages

Kirsty and Rachel are thrilled to be at Camp Stargaze. But Jack Frost has stolen the Twilight Fairies' magical bags, causing night-time chaos! Can the girls help Ava the Sunset Fairy find her bag of sunbeam dust, so the sun can finally set? ---------- **Books in this series** 1. Ava the Sunset Fairy 2. [Lexi the Firefly Fairy][2] 3. [Zara the Starlight Fairy][3] 4. [Morgan the Midnig

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All-of-a-Kind Family

Sydney Taylor · 189 pages

The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.

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