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(0)Judith Ivey
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Feb24 4th/5th grade
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Feb24 4th/5th grade
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Green Hills Staff Favorites - Youth Books
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"Once, in a house on Egypt Street there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp,...
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Aurora County trilogy volume 1
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When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a house shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and...
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The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Twelve-year-old Hattie learns that living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad upon the closing of her Uncle Adam's "school"- an institution for the mentally disabled.
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Ya-Yas volume 1
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English
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“Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly
The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Who can resist the rich cadences
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 61
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"Abandoned as a baby, twelve-year-old Hollis Woods has been in more foster homes than she cares to remember. Edna Reilly, her dedicated social worker finally places Hollis with Josie Cahill, a retired art teacher whose home is filled with her whimsical creations. Beatrice is Josie's cousin and loyal friend. Josie is delighted to discover that Hollis is also an artist and Hollis responds to Josie's warmth and openness. But she soon realizes that Josie...