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Kristy's Big Day

Ann M. Martin · 153 pages

When her mother gets married, Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club have their hands full taking care of fourteen children at the wedding.

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Royal Wedding Disaster

Meg Cabot · 282 pages

While helping her half-sister, the ruler of Genovia, prepare for her royal wedding, Princess Olivia finds herself facing snooty cousins, school, and princess lessons with Grandmère.

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Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher

Wendelin Van Draanen

When her history teacher begins receiving death threats and her own name is near the top of the suspect list, eighth-grader Sammy is determined to find the real perpetrator, but she is distracted by her mother's relationship problems, her almost-boyfriend inexplicably avoiding her, and her duties as a reluctant bridesmaid.

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Wish You Were Eyre

Heather Vogel Frederick · 457 pages

It’s a dream come true for Megan, who’s jet-setting to Paris for Fashion Week with Gigi. Meanwhile, back in Concord, Mrs. Wong decides to run for mayor, so Emma and Stewart team up to make her campaign a success. Jess and Cassidy are also hoping for victories, Jess in the a cappella finals with the MadriGals and Cassidy in the national hockey championships with her teammates. In the midst of it al

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Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Jenny Han · 322 pages

While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter.

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Emma, Smile and Say "Cupcake!"

Coco Simon, Elizabeth Doyle Carey · 133 pages

Emma wants to be a model, but membership in the Cupcake Club might be all the fame she needs. Book #11 The Special Day wedding salon is running an ad in the local newspaper, and they want Emma to model in the advertisement. The ad is a huge hit and suddenly Emma is very much in demand. But after running all over New York City for auditions, Emma realizes being a model is a lot tougher than she th

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Betsy's Wedding

Maud Hart Lovelace · 295 pages

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Including Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Nick Vaccaro · 277 pages

First semester of 10th Grade (Sylvia and Ben get married. Alice contemplates the value of social customs.)

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A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck · 130 pages

Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better no

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The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West

Kristiana Gregory · 203 pages

As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

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Anastasia Has the Answers

Lois Lowry · 128 pages

Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

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These Happy Golden Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 294 pages

The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company.

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Way Down Deep

Ruth White · 197 pages

In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel

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A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages

A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Bla

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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale · 314 pages

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Viola in the Spotlight

Adriana Trigiani

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The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead · 240 pages

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents' divorce, Bea's

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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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Labrador on the Lawn

Ben M. Baglio · 150 pages

While vacationing in England's Lake District, Mandy and James find a mischievous Labrador on the lawn of the house where they are staying. They try to find the owner.

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The Wild One

Terri Farley

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Meet Felicity: An American Girl

Valerie Tripp · 68 pages

In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.

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First Crush

Cassandra Calin

The second book in the series “The New Girl.” Someone has feelings for Lia while she hopes to get the attention of Julien.

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New Beginnings

Lauren Brooke · 176 pages

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