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Author
Series
Clarice Bean novels volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.
42) Repossessed
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
44) Crash
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
45) Gathering sparks
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A grandfather introduces his grandson to the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, a centuries-old concept which proposes that everyone must do their part in order to improve the world.
46) Ben rides on
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ben rides his new bicycle the very, very long way to school but Adrian Underbite, perhaps the world's largest third-grader, takes the bike anyway and later, when Ben finds Adrian in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help the larcenous bully.
Author
Series
Barely missing everything volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
49) Amal unbound
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
Author
Series
Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books, an imprint of Raw Junior, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The wordless adventure of two children whose misdeeds are punished when they're transformed into monkeys. In the tradition of kamishibai, or Japanese paper theater, the wordless format gives freedom to the readers to tell the story as they see it"--
52) Red
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Torn between her fear of the bully on the school playground and her sympathy for her classmate, a girl must make a difficult choice"--
53) Wild cards
Author
Series
Wild cards series (Simone Elkeles) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lauren begins stealing to raise money for autistic kids, like her brother, who don't have her family's resources, she convinces Sierra, a foster child, to help with the Robin Hood scheme, in a story told half in prose and half in verse.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
57) Come with me
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frightened by news of angry people around the world, a young girl gets her parents' help in learning to be compassionate and brave a little at a time.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a longlifetime.
59) All but Alice
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.
60) The one thing
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After losing her sight--and the future she dreamed of--seventeen-year-old Maggie meets the one person with the ability to help her see all the possibilities life still holds.
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