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1) Dear Mothman
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Author
Language
English
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Titles Worth Trying: Historical Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: LGBTQIA+ [Middle School]
Titles Worth Trying: Historical Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: LGBTQIA+ [Middle School]
Description
"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He’s been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there’s something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as...
Author
Series
Lost in-- volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break.
Author
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Realistic Fiction [Middle School Readers]
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Summer Fun: Elementary and Middle Grade
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Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
Author
Series
Clueless McGee volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee writes a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, telling of his attempt to learn who stole the science fair trophy, thus clearing his own name.
7) Dear Sister
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Brother chronicles life with his frequently-annoying Sister, from the time she is born until she is ten and he leaves for college, through a series of letters and drawings.
Author
Series
Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
9) Dear Anjali
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend dies at the age of thirteen, Meredith writes letters to her as she tries to endure her grief and other confusing emotions.
11) Same sun here
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
Author
Series
Dear Beast volume 4
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A stuck-up cat and a good-natured dog are pen pals from a distance, until a disastrous sleepover brings them together in this playful illustrated chapter book told in letters"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Told through Paddington's letters to his aunt Lucy back in Peru, this new novel offers Paddington's own special view on some of his most famous tales, from stowing away on a ship, to working as a barber.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
20) Love, Penelope
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Penny writes a series of letters to her future sibling, including facts about their Oakland, California, home, questions about whether their moms will ever marry, and especially that he or she is loved.
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