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By Rob Buyea
Recommended By Nadine K.
Grade(s): 4+
Seven fifth graders at Snow Hill School in Vermont learn a variety of life lessons, not necessarily from their textbooks, when they start the school year off with their new teacher.
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Children Genre Realistic Fiction
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By Jane Simmons
Recommended By Amy B.
Grade(s): 3
Tired of being mistreated and cooped up, Beryl the piglet escapes her farm and meets a group of wild pigs, whose settlement splits up over the decision of whether to let her stay, and with her new "family" she sets out to find a new home.
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Children Genre Animal Fiction
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By E.B. White
Recommended By Pam Strudler
Grade(s): 4+
Some Pig, These are the words in Charlotte's web, high in the barn. Her spider web tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern ... who loves Wilbur, too. Their love has been shared by millions of readers.
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Children Genre Classical Literature
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By Art Corriveau
Recommended By Sue Ann R.
Grade(s): 4
Moving to inner-city Boston after his parents’ divorce, eleven-year-old Nicky struggles to cope with the changes in his life, including acquiring a former guide dog that leads to a mystery for Nicky to solve.
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Children Genre Humor (Fiction), Realistic Fiction
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By David Melling
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin
Grade(s): K-2
Douglas the bear wakes up one morning wanting a hug. He unsuccessfully tries hugging a rock, a tall tree, and an odd–feeling bush that runs away. Won't anyone give him a hug?
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Children Genre Humor (Fiction)
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By Cathleen Davitt Bell
Recommended By Amy B.
Grade(s): 4
Thirteen–year–old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
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Children Genre Realistic Fiction
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By Kristina Springer
Recommended By Josephine Amoia
Grade(s): 4
When her best friend Sea returns from her summer vacation claiming to have a boyfriend, twelve–year–old Tori is sure she is lying and makes up her own boyfriend, who just so happens to do everything better than Sea's boyfriend.
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Children Genre Humor (Fiction)
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By Erin Bow
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin
Grade(s): 5
Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.
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Children Genre Fantasy
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By Florence Parry Heide
Recommended By Nadine K.
Grade(s): K+
Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially–made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite–flying Boy stops to say hello.
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Children Genre Picture Books
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By Peter Brown
Recommended By Amy B.
Grade(s): K-2
Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.
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Children Genre Picture Books
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By Natalie Savage Carlson
Recommended By Sue Ann R.
Grade(s): 3-5
An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
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Children Genre Historical Fiction
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By Ellen Potter
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin
Grade(s): 6-8
Otto, Lucia, and Max Hardscrabble, whose mother has been missing for many years, have unexpected and illuminating adventures in the village of Snoring–by–the–Sea after their father, who paints portraits of deposed monarchs, goes away on a business trip.
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Children Genre Mystery
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By Carolyn Cohagan
Recommended By Josephine Amoia
Grade(s): 4
When twelve–year–old Josephine falls through a worm–hole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle now in the world where she has landed.
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Children Genre Science Fiction
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By Johnny Duddle
Recommended By Nadine K.
Grade(s): 1+
A mysterious old pirate lures a group of rowdy sailors to an island with buried treasure, but there is a surprise awaiting them when they get there. Arrrh!
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Children Genre Picture Books
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By Kathi Appelt
Recommended By Sue Ann R.
Grade(s): 5
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner’s run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
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Children Genre Animal Fiction
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