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As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me

Nanci Kincaid · 355 pages

In the summer after her father's abandonment, thirteen-year-old Berry witnesses her mother's pursuit of the local preacher and the arrival of a handsome convict who helps repair hurricane-damaged roads in her conservative Florida hometown. By the author of Crossing Blood.

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Montana 1948

Larry Watson · 175 pages

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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he

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Hope Farm

Peggy Frew · 352 pages

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A Crime in the Neighborhood

Suzanne Berne · 256 pages

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The Cat's Table

Michael Ondaatje · 296 pages

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure

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The Earth Hums in B Flat

Mari Strachan · 337 pages

A twelve-year-old free spirit believes her talents will allow her to discover the answers to the disappearance of her neighbor's patriarch.

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The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass · 591 pages

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Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger · 320 pages

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor · 276 pages

Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not t

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La fruta del borrachero

Ingrid Rojas Contreras · 406 pages

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In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar · 252 pages

Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father's constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Su

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The Choke

Sofie Laguna · 386 pages

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Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger · 208 pages

First published short story volume by the author of Catcher In The Rye.

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What They Do in the Dark

Amanda Coe · 250 pages

You will want to know a bit about this book before you commit to reading it.This novel is about two very different girls growing up in a tough Yorkshire town in the 1970s - spoilt Gemma, who seems to have everything, and neglected Pauline, who has less than nothing. But that is not the only story.

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The White King

Gyorgy Dragoman · 320 pages

In the tradition of A CURIOUS INCIDENT and BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS: a young boy in a totalitarian state in a quest for his disappeared father.Eleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays. It is the day the State Security came to take his father away, and he believes it will be a Sunday when his father is finally sent home again.In the mean time, Djata lives out a life of advent

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That Eye, the Sky

Tim Winton · 160 pages

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 566 pages

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling story about the ability of books to feed the soul is now a major motion picture. This enhanced ebook edition is perfect for new fans and collectors alike. It includes: · An exclusive video welcome to the enhanced edition from Markus Zusak. · The official movie trailer for The Book Thief. · Videos featurettes introducing Sophie Nélisse (Leisel Mem

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The Education of Dixie Dupree

Donna Everhart · 352 pages

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Black Swan Green

David Mitchell · 344 pages

A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen l

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Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Jack Womack · 255 pages

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Girl at War

Sara Novic · 320 pages

When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past.

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