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842) For keeps
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Potter, a fourth year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal fourteen year old wizard, but what Harry does not yet realize is that he is not a normal wizard, and in his case, different can be deadly.
845) Rebecca and Ana
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Rubin, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants living in New York in 1914, does not know what to do when her teacher assigns the class to make Christmas decorations which she is sure will upset her family, but she gets some good advice from an unexpected place.
851) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
853) The Wednesday wars
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed-- then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
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