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1) Woundabout
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Orphaned siblings nine-year-old Cordelia and eleven-year-old Connor, accompanied by their pet capybara, go to live with their aunt in the strange town of Woundabout, where nothing seems to change.
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Every day passes by just like every other day in Fawn Creek, Louisiana--at least, that's how best friends-since-forever Dorothy Doucet and Greyson Broussard feel. The two girls consider themselves outside the typical seventh-grade groups--especially the self-proclaimed God Squad, and the Fawn Creek Royalty, and the Jocks--and that suits them just fine, since they have each other. Dorothy and Greyson have no reason to believe this year will be any...
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4th Grade Reading
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Kate DiCamillo
Realistic Fiction for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Kate DiCamillo
Realistic Fiction for Kids
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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
4) Eventown
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The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
5) Polo cowboy
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"When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up--all except Ruthie, the team's first and only girl, who's determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole...
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Twelve-year-old Wini and Kal, two young enchanters from different magical families, team up to save their small town from a love spell gone wrong, which one of them cast.
Wini's family of enchanters runs a little bakery, but with the prices of magical ingredients skyrocketing, they're going under. Desperate to save her family's business, Wini takes a risk by casting a (sort of illegal) spell that would allow them to gather their own supply of their...
8) Rosetown
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In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
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"When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
10) City of illusion
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After saving their beloved mechanized city of Oskars, Hannah and Ever team up with new friends to try to save both Oskars and the nearby city of Alexios from the evil assassin Vash.
11) City
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Introduces young readers to the various ways cities grow and function, describing suburbs, shanty towns, and high-rise business districts.
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A little pig in a big city leads to lots of trouble! Josie Shilling's family is too big, their cramped city house is too small, and she feels like no one is ever on her side. Then, on Thanksgiving Day, her older brother, Tom, brings home a pink, squirmy bundle wrapped in an old football jersey--a piglet he rescued from a nearby farm. Her name is Hamlet.
13) Nowhere special
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Twelve-year-old Stan and Elpidia find hope in an unexpected friendship as they navigate challenging family circumstances and a dangerous local gang in the desolate Southern California desert.
15) Tenmile
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A thirteen-year-old girl living in an 1880 Colorado gold-mining town witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.
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In Christmas, Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Darby Peacher stumbles her way into a job at the town's run-down holiday-themed amusement park, Holly Jolly Land, but her summer quickly goes from merry to miserable when the boy of Christmas present is absent, the boy of Christmas past is her supervisor, and the town seems to be losing its cheer as it strives to become more commercial.
18) The goat
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A mountain goat is living on the roof of a downtown apartment building. It's too strange, even for Manhattan!
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". . . On the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices--and a huge family secret. It's 1941, and . . . as the Second World War rages in Europe, eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. ....