Natalie Lloyd
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Felicity Pickle is not like other people--where other people collect baseball cards or whatever, Felicity collects words. Words people say, think, and want. The word she wants, in all of her family's moving around, is "home." Finally, her mother's van called the "Pickled Jalapeno" rolls into Midnight Gulch, where she hopes maybe she has found the word "home," and maybe even "friend."
2) Hummingbird
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English
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2022 Teen Services Staff Picks
Summer Reading Committee's Recommended Reads
VSBA 2023-2024 -- Intermediate Nominees
VSBA 2023-2024 -- Middle School Nominees
Summer Reading Committee's Recommended Reads
VSBA 2023-2024 -- Intermediate Nominees
VSBA 2023-2024 -- Middle School Nominees
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When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
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English
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Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.