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The Underneath
by Kathi Appelt
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 (110 customer reviews)
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
May 6, 2008
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4–8—Appelt brings Southern Gothic to the middle grade set. Three separate but eventually entwined stories are told piecemeal. There is the tale of an abandoned, pregnant calico cat who finds shelter and friendship with the bloodhound, Ranger. He is the abused and neglected pet of Gar Face, a ...
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition (Harry Potter)
by J. K. Rowling
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 (797 customer reviews)
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Children's High Level Group
December 4, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition In December 2007, J.K. Rowling unveiled The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a very special book of five fairy tales illustrated by the bard herself, embellished with silver ornaments and mounted moonstones. Amazon was fortunate to come into possession of one ...
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Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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 (84 customer reviews)
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
October 21, 2008
Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Grade 6–10—Set in New York City at the beginning of the American Revolution, Chains addresses the price of freedom both for a nation and for individuals. Isabel tells the story of her life as a slave. She was sold with her five-year-old sister to a cruel Loyalist family even ...
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My One Hundred Adventures
by Polly Horvath
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(11 customer reviews)
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Schwartz & Wade
September 9, 2008
Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 4–7—This is Horvath's most luminescent, beautifully written novel yet. Jane Fielding lives what seems to be an idyllic life with her poet mother and three younger siblings in a house on the beach in coastal Massachusetts, where they gather mussels, pick berries to eat, and lay ...
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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
by Jeanne Birdsall
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(53 customer reviews)
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Knopf Books for Young Readers
April 8, 2008
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
This sequel to Birdsall's National Book Award winner, The Penderwicks, has even more charm than the original. The prologue hits the only maudlin note, flashing back to Mrs. Penderwick on her deathbed as she instructs her husband's sister, Claire, to make s...
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Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 2)
by Jeff Kinney
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(398 customer reviews)
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Amulet Books
February 1, 2008
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From Booklist
Greg Heffley is back, and with him the trappings that made his first outing, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007), such a popular triumph. Once again diarist Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time...
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The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
by Rick Riordan
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 (559 customer reviews)
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Hyperion Books for Children
May 6, 2008
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5–9—The battle starts, literally, with an explosion and doesn't let up. After Percy destroys the high school band room battling monsters called empousai who have taken on the form of cheerleaders, he has to hide out at Camp Half-Blood. There, Grover's searcher's license is going to be revoked ...
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A Thousand Never Evers
by Shana Burg
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(11 customer reviews)
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Delacorte Books for Young Readers
June 10, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
A Thousand Never Evers, a debut novel by Shana Burg, creates a convincing portrait of the South during the Civil Rights Movement. The book follows a year in the life of Addie Ann Pickett, a girl on the verge of her early teens in Kuckapoo, Mississippi in 1963. Addie ...
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
by Trenton Lee Stewart
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(133 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
May 1, 2008
Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 5–7—What was supposed to have been a reunion with Mr. Benedict turns into trouble for the four young heroes of The Mysterious Benedict Society (Little, Brown, 2007). Mr. Benedict and his assistant Number 2 have been kidnapped by the evil Mr. Curtain while abroad, so Reynie, ...
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Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
by Various
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(13 customer reviews)
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Candlewick
September 9, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Our White House: Looking in, Looking Out is an astounding collection featuring more than 100 award-winning children's book authors and illustrators. It is much more than a history about the home and office of U.S. presidents and their families. Commissioned by the National Children's Book and Literary Alliance, ...
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