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501) A surprise for Lily
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Adventures of Lily Lapp volume 4
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English
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Lily Lapp, now in fifth grade and growing up fast, faces many changes including old friends leaving and new ones coming, the election of a new bishop, and a wedding. Includes facts about the Amish faith and way of life.
502) Pinky Pye
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While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.
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Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
504) The memory keeper
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Twelve-year-old Lulu Rose Carter's memory improves greatly just as her beloved Gram becomes very forgetful, and Lulu begins to explore Gram's past in an effort to save her.--
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Katie Jordan books volume 1
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When her perfectionist classmate and neighbor plans an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, Katie begins to wonder if the relaxed day she, her father, and her messy little brother usually enjoy means they are not a "real" family.
506) Girls acting catty
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Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
508) Life after theft
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Kimberlee Schaffer may be drop-dead gorgeous, but she also dropped dead last year. Now she needs Jeff, the newest student at the private high school, to help with her unfinished business, and she's not taking no for an answer. When she was alive, Kimberlee wasn't just a mean girl; she was also a complete kleptomaniac. So if Jeff wants to avoid being haunted until graduation, he'll have to help her return everything she stole. But Jeff soon discovers...
509) Just so thankful
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Little Critter has few material possessions but learns to be thankful for his very loving family.
510) The day I was erased
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Twelve-year-old Maxwell, convinced his whole town hates him, wishes he had never been born then, realizing he actually is important, tries to get his life back with the help of an elderly neighbor, Reg.
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Pepper party volume 3
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English
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Wearing his great-grandfather's magic hat while dressing as a fortune teller for Halloween, Beta Max discovers that his wild predictions helped to unleash a poltergeist, transforming his parents into zombies and the family dog into a Chihuawolf.
512) Penny and her song
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Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.
513) Crow
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In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
514) Fortune Falls
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In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
516) I wanna new room
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Through a series of brief letters to his parents, Alex presents all the reasons why he should not have to share a room with his younger brother.
517) Crossing the line
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Fifth-grader Billy must transfer from his all-white, Catholic school to a public school, where he becomes best friends with Foster, who is black, just before the Red Summer of 1919.
518) Finders keepers
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In Wisconsin, ten-year-old Christa and eleven-year-old Alex team up to search for the lost treasure of Al Capone near where Alex has just moved into his grandfather's house and Christa is spending what may be her family's last summer in their cabin.
519) Janie face to face
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Janie Johnson volume 5
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English
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At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
520) True (--sort of)
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For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.