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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 22
Language
English
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When Geronimo is invited to Creepella von Cacklefur's spooky castle, he is surrounded by the gloom of the castle as well as by Creepella's creepy family!
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English
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Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Historical [Middle School]
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When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
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English
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Lina is a fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. She's just like any other girl. Until one night in 1941, when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother are taken slowly north to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to dig for beets and fight for...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [Middle School Readers]
Cold War Middle and High School
TAB 2017 Picks
The Cold War: Books for Kids
Cold War Middle and High School
TAB 2017 Picks
The Cold War: Books for Kids
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"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in 1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with the help of their secret society of fellow orphans.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 10
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
Jack and Annie are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! The brother-and-sister team travel back in the magic tree house to the period known as the Renaissance. This time, Jack and Annie will need more than a research book and a magic wand. They'll need help from one of the greatest...
8) Marina
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
10) Chasing secrets
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who's hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that's spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Series
Iris Anderson mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
12) Echo Mountain
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie. Determined...
13) Skyscraping
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1993 in New York City, high school senior Mira uncovers many secrets, including that her father has a male lover.
15) The bicycle spy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
16) Seeing red
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red's desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
17) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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Language
English
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Ruth has a secret that she can't hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck strikes. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance, with the life she's always known on her family's fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it's safer to run away than to stay home--until one of them ends up in terrible danger. Four very different lives are about to become entangled. This unforgettable book...
19) One small step
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will find out.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Mary Lennox didn’t think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff...
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