Sonya Hartnett
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"Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find two mysterious boys hiding in the ruins of a nearby castle, an extraordinary adventure begins. "--publishers web site.
2) Surrender
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As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
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Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
6) Golden boys
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Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
8) Butterfly
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In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
9) ¡Baja, gata!
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"Se acerca la hora de acostarse y la gata siamesa de Nicolás no baja del tejado. Nicolás se preocupa, no quiere que duerma allá arriba, a merced de las criaturas nocturnas. La gata solo maúlla y no tiene intenciones de bajar. Pero la noche esconde sorpresas, y en su inmensa oscuridad, Nicolás y su gata se olvidarán de sus miedos para ser más valientes que nunca."--
The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat still won't come down....
10) Princes
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Ravel felt a shifty stab of panic. Indigo had an inquisitive new hobby...he'd taken to chopping things into pieces and this was not, Ravel felt, quite sane. More than that , it was rank with menace. Ravel wavered: "Indigo,' he whispered, 'what are you doing?' In a dilapidated mansion overrun by rats, Ravel and Indigo Kesby have gone to war....