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• This Is Just a Test

  Rosenberg, Madelyn, 1966-

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  In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Langston

  Cline-Ransome, Lesa,

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  Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

• Under the Broken Sky

  Nagai, Mariko,

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  When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.

• A Night Divided

  Nielsen, Jennifer A.

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  When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Greys on Greene Street

  Tucker, Laura, 1973-

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  SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist -- and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stella by Starlight

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

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  When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.

• Beyond the Bright Sea

  Wolk, Lauren, 1956-

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  Set adrift on the ocean in a small skiff as a newborn, twelve-year-old Crow embarks on a quest to find the missing pieces of her history.

• Keeping Score

  Park, Linda Sue

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  In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.

• The Lions of Little Rock

  Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims), 1974-

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  In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond

  Speare, Elizabeth George

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  In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

• Echo

  Ryan, Pam Muñoz,

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  Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War That Saved My Life

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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  A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

• City of Orphans

  Avi, 1937-

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  In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.

• Bud, Not Buddy

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shooting the Moon

  Dowell, Frances O'Roark

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  When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.

• Dead End in Norvelt

  Gantos, Jack

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  In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turtle in Paradise

  Holm, Jennifer L.

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  In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

• Inside Out & Back Again

  Lại, Thanhhà

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  Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

• Number the Stars

  Lowry, Lois

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  In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Lois Lowry is a prolific author with many other historical novels.

• Emily's Fortune

  Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

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  While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's…Read moreRead more of this annotation