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The House By The Lake by Thomas Harding
This beautiful picture book tells the fascinating story of a real house, located in the village of Grob Glienicke, about fourteen kilometers west of Berlin. It was built by a German physician, Dr....
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Red, White, And Whole by Rajani LaRocca
Thirteen-year-old Reha is part of two worlds: one that is Indian and one that is not. She wants to chew gum, wear tight jeans, go to dances and have fun. But Amma tells her they are different from...
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Masters of Silence by Kathy Kacer
Masters of Silence is the second novel in the Quartet series by Kathy Kacer. In this story, two young refugees from the Nazis are helped by Marcel Marceau to safety.Fourteen-year-old Helen Rosenthal...
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A Whale Of The Wild by Rosanne Parry
A Whale Of The Wild tells the story of a young orca who endures a catastrophic event to save what's left of her family.Vega is part of the Warmward Kinship of Great Salmon Eaters that includes her...
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned To Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard...
The Oldest Student tells the story of Mary Walker, born a slave in 1848 and her remarkable feat of learning to read when she was 116 years old.When Mary was a young girl, working in the fields, she...
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Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte & Ann Xu
Cici loves life in her small town in Taiwan. She especially loves going to the morning market every Saturday with A-ma, her grandmother. She often cooks with A-ma, surprising her mother with things...
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The Lady With the Books by Kathy Stinson
Anneliese and her brother Peter are hungry and wandering the ruined city of Munich. The streets are filled with the chunks of broken pavement and wrecked buildings. When she finds a discarded orange...
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The Boy Who Thought Outside The Box by Marcie Wessels
Ralph Baer lived in Cologne, Germany and loved to play with his best friend Herbert. However, when Hitler became leader of Germany, he "blamed the country's problems on Jewish people." The Nazi...
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The Age of Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Age of Dinosaurs tells the fascinating story of how dinosaurs came to be the dominant species on Earth for over 150 million years. Their story covers the Mesozoic Era which includes the Triassic,...
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Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
Ground Zero is the story of the past and present, of 9/11 and the U.S. war on terror in 2019 told using two narratives. In the first narrative, it is September 11, 2001 and nine-year-old Brandon...
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Kafka and the Doll by Larissa Theule
One day Franz Kafka and his friend Dora Diamant were walking through a park in the city of Berlin when they encountered a young girl crying. When Kafka questioned her as to why she was crying, she told...
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Journey Around The Sun: the Story of Halley's Comet by James Gladstone
Journey Around the Sun tells the story of Halley's Comet from the point of view of the comet.The comet states that it has seen our past and will see our future. In the past, people looked at the comet...
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Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Margaret (Meg) Kenyon's father left home in May of 1940 to fight the German army massing on the French border. Meg and her parents were forced to leave their home in Auxonne, near the German border and...
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She Caught The Light by Kathryn Lasky
Willamina was born more than one hundred years ago in Dundee, Scotland. Called Mina, she was the daughter of a carver and gilder who also had photography as a hobby. Mina was a bright and curious baby...
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All We Left Behind by Danielle R. Graham
Hayden Pierce lives with his parents, and his older sister Rosalyn on Mayne Island, in British Columbia. It is August, 1941, and Hayden has volunteered to help his ma help set up the craft fair rather...
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The Ghost Who Was A Quilt by Riel Nason
"Once there was a little ghost who was a quilt." This little ghost was different from his parents who were both sheets and who flew high and fast because they were so light. They could glide and float...
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Refugee by Alan Gratz
Refugee tells the stories of three refugees from different countries and different time periods in alternating narratives.Twelve-year-old Josef Landau, a Jewish boy living in Berlin in 1938, is awoken...
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A Boy Is Not A Bird by Edeet Ravel
It is the summer of 1940 and Nathan (Natt) Silver and his best friend Max Zwecker are playing a game called Life and Death on the High Seas when Max's mother tells Natt he has to go home. Natt lives in...
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Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom...
In the town of Liuhe, China, the Wu family celebrated the birth of a baby girl. Unlike many people at this time, the Wu's did not hold the common view that girls were not as smart as boys and therefore...
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Before The Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
It's 1999 and ten-year-old Zachariah Jr.'s (ZJ) father is a famous football player who has won several Super Bowl championships. His famous father, a tight end, is known as "Zachariah 44" Johnson.ZJ...
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