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1) Stand tall
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Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
2) Short
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"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive, one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins, and with...
3) Tall story
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Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
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Teased for his youth and diminutive stature, twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon is a fully-licensed detective who, while investigating his first case, is framed for arson and must team up with his prime suspect to clear his name and find the real criminal.
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Fourteen-year-old T.J. and her new friend, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth, a six-inch-high "Little" with a big chip on her shoulder, help one another as T.J. tries to adjust to her family's move from a farm to the big city and Elizabeth tries to make her own way in the world.
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Dark ground trilogy volume 3
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Robert tries to get answers from Magee, the strange man he met on the airplane, and works with Tom and Emma to try to rescue Lorn and the others before winter arrives, while Lorn takes it upon herself to find answers and a way to escape her past, if not her present, captivity.
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Fifteen-year-old Sander wishes he was like everyone else. But Sander has a rare medical condition that affects one in a hundred thousand people. It means his growth is stunted, and it seems the biggest, strongest and loudest guys get all the attention. But Sander notices the little things other people miss, and he's about to make a big impact... A moving coming-of-age classic about fitting in, standing out, and the power of friendship.