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"For twelve years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts." Harry Potter...
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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.
1307) The headmaster's wife
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Mark Deavecca, cast into the alien world of private school, finds himself losing his grip on reality, and when his roommate--who it was rumored was having an affair with the headmaster's wife--is found dead in their room, he has the presence of mind to call in retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian for help.
1308) Drita, my homegirl
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.
1310) Candlelight for Rebecca
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American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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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.
1311) Diamond Willow
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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In a remote area of Alaska, twelve year old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her
1312) Rebecca and Ana
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American Girl
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c2009
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English
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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.
1313) Sweethearts: a novel
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced toconfront the most traumatic event of her past and question who she r
1314) Janes in love
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Minx
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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A group of friends who are all named Jane get together and try to make their small town beautiful by engaging in subversive art, and the main Jane wrestles with her affection for two different boys on Valentine's Day while she runs out of money for continuing her artwork.
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Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, tired of plowing, planting, and milking the cow on her family's farm during the Great Depression, is determined to escape her life of poverty in Buck Creek, Kentucky, and hopes that school will open the door to a better future.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
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Rex Norton Norton, an eleven year old boy living in Ottowa in 1962, faces several confusing mysteries, including his father's troubling secrets from World War II, the problems of a beautiful but unhappy woman named Natasha, what to do about his mean and vindictive teacher, and whether or not he should
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