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Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War. Addy Walker is a proud, courageous girl growing up in 1864, during the midst of the Civil War. Addy's stories tell of her daring escape with her mother from slavery, and the challenges they face afterward as they try to reunite their family. But Addy's stories are about much more than hardship. They are full of the love and...
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Ramona Quimby volume 5
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English
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Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
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Lou! volume 3
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English
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Lou finds it confusing and difficult to be thirteen, especially with her mother and Richard's romance heating up, being separated from her best friend Mina at school, and getting another letter from Paul when she never answered the first one.
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Wilde Island chronicles volume 1
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English
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In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
8) Mosquitoland
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2015.
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English
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
11) Starfish
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
12) Boomer
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The puppy place. Main series volume 38
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[2015]
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English
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When Lizzie gets a call about a big, mixed-breed puppy that needs a place to stay, she must try to take care of him without ruining her mom's plans to have friends stay over for a long weekend.
13) Little women
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For over a century, no four young ladies have delighted more people, touched more hearts, or won more lifelong friends than the vivacious March sisters of boston - beautiful Meg, independent Jo, angelic Beth, and artistic Amy -- whose common family bonds and separate personal destinies make up the irrestible story of Little Women.
14) Come on, rain!
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English
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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So B. it volume 1
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English
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agora phobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
16) I wonder
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[2013]
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English
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Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know", and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!
17) Kiss and spell
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2015.
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Ever After High is a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairy tale characters, and student Ginger Breadhouse, daughter of the Candy Witch, studies all the usual magic subjects--but what she is mostly interested in is making her cooking show, Spells Kitchen, a success by introducing happiness as the secret ingredient.
18) Saturday
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2019.
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English
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When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.
19) Money hungry
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c2001
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English
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All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
20) My mother's sari
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2006
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English
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A little girl is fascinated by her mother's sari and finds many uses for it.
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