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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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Graceful

Wendy Mass · 264 pages

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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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Little Town on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 304 pages

Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.

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The Betsy-Tacy Treasury

Maud Hart Lovelace

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The Cupid Chronicles

Coleen Murtagh Paratore · 215 pages

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin · 337 pages

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

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Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo · 182 pages

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her becauThe summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tel

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The Letters

Suzanne Woods Fisher

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Wish

Barbara O'Connor · 227 pages

charlie resse has been making the same wish every day since forth grade but when she is sent to live with family the barly knows it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true that is, until she meets wishbone a skinny stray dog who captures her heart

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Sky Jumpers

Peggy Eddleman · 288 pages

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The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop

Carolyn Brown · 324 pages

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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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Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage · 312 pages

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

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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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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

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Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath · 166 pages

Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

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The Dream-Maker's Magic

Sharon Shinn · 266 pages

Kellen's mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female—so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few years later, the two get jobs working at an inn nearby. When it is discovered that Gryffin is the kingdom's new Dream-Maker—someone whose mere presence can he

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Sea Swept

Nora Roberts · 342 pages

Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. ---------- Also contained in: [The Quinn Brothers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15316736W) [Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL445995W)

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Christmas in Good Hope

Cindy Kirk · 291 pages

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The Heart of Christmas

Brenda Novak · 382 pages

Eve Harmon has always enjoyed Christmas, but this year it reminds her of everything she doesn't have. Almost all her friends are married now, and that's what Eve wants, too. Love. A husband and kids of her own. But the B and B she manages, and even Whiskey Creek, the small Gold Country town where she was born and raised, suddenly seem confining. Eve's worried that her future will simply be a refle

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The Wanderer

Robyn Carr · 384 pages

Nestled on the Oregon coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land's unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he's been left an old friend's entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community's destiny in his hands. With the whole town watching, Cooper has to choose between his old life and a place fu

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