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Summer Reading
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Grade
6
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Category
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Title
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Author
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Classics
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Alice
in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Caddie Woodlawn
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Carol Ryrie Brink
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Old Yeller
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Fred Gipson
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The Secret
Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Novels / Fiction
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Bridge to Terabithia
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Katherine Paterson
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Dogsong
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Gary Paulsen
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From the Mixed Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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E. L. Konigsburg
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Great Billy Hopkins
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Katherine Paterson
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Hatchet
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Gary Paulsen
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Homeless Bird
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Gloria Whelan
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The Heart of a Chief
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Joseph Bruchac
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The Incredible Journey
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Shelia Burnford
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Julie of the Wolves
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Jean Craighead George
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My Side of the Mountain
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Jean Craighead George
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The Night Swimmers
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Betsey Byars
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On My Honor
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Marion Dane Bauer
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Queenie Peavy
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Robert Burch
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The Summer of the Swans
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Betsy Bauer
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The Westing Game
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Ellen Raskin
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Zia
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Scott O’Dell
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Non-Fiction
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Basher Five-Two
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Scott O’Grady (biography)
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Cheaper by the Dozen
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Frank B. Gilbreth (biography)
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Guts
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Gary Paulsen
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My Life with Chimpanzees
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Jane Goodall
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Folklore / Fairy Tales / Myths & Legends
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Moss Gown
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William H. Hooks
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Yeh Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
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Ai-Ling Louie
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Letters from Rifka
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Karen Hesse
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The Big Wave
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Pearl Buck
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Esperanza Rising
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Pam Munoz Ryan
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Out of the Dust
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Karen Hesse
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The Riddle of Penncroft Farm
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Dorothea Jensen
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A Single Shard
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Linda Sue Park
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Fantasy
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The Indian in the Cupboard
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Lynne Reid Banks
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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Robert C. O’Brien
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The Magician’s Nephew
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C. S. Lewis
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The Tale of Despereaux
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Kate DiCamillo
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Science Fiction
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine :’Engle
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Grade
7
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Category
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Title
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Author
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Classics
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Jules Verne
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Novels / Fiction
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Among the Hidden
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Margaret Peterson
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Bearstone
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Will Hobbs
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Breadwinner
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Deborah Ellis
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Holes
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Louis Sachar
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
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Jack Gantos
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Long Way from Chicago
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Richard Peck
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Monkey
Island
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Paula Fox
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No More Dead Dogs
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Gordon Korman
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Mildred Taylor
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Running Out of Time
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Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Secrets at Hidden Valley
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Willo Davis Roberts
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Skeeter
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K. Smith
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Slake’s Limbo
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Felice Holmon
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The Secret Gumbo Grove
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Eleanora A. Tate
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The View from Saturday
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E. L. Konigsburg
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Timothy of the Cay
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Theodore Taylor
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Walk Two Moons
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Sharon Creech
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Who Put the Hair in My Toothbrush?
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Jerry Spinelli
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Zulu Dog
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Anton Ferreira
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Non-Fiction
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Red Scarf Girl
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Ji-Li Jiang
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Zlata’s Diary
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Zlata Filopovic (autobiography)
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Folklore / Fairy Tales / Myths & Legends
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
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Virginia Hamilton
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The Trojan War
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Bernard Evslin
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Historical Fiction
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Behind the Bedroom Wall
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Carol Matas
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Park’s Quest
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Katherine Paterson
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Stepping on the Cracks
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Mary Downing Hahn
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
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Lensey Mamioka
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
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Graham Salsibury
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Fantasy
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A Girl Named Disaster
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Nancy Farmer
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The Hobbit
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Science Fiction
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Singularity
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William Sleator
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Grade
8
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Category
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Title
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Author
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Classics
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Call of the Wild
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Jack London
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Jonathan Swift
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Little Men
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Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women
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Louisa May Alcott
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Short Stories
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Gathering of Flowers: Stories about Young in America
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edited by Joyce Carol Thomas
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Novels / Fiction
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Brian’s Winter
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Gary Paulsen
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Double Dutch
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Sharon M. Draper
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Freak the Mighty
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W. R. (W. Rodman) Philbrick
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Letters from the Mountain
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Sherry Garland
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Racing the Sun
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Paul Pitts
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Seedfolks
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Paul Fleischman
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Stargirl
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Jerry Spinelli
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Tangerine
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Edward Boor
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Ben Mikaelsen
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Red Midnight
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Ben Mikaelsen
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Non-Fiction
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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(biography)
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Lincoln:
A Photobiography
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Russell Freedman (biography)
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Traitor, The Case of Benedict Arnold
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Jean Fritz (biography)
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Folklore / Fairy Tales / Myths & Legends
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The Tales of Uncle Remus
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as told by Julius Lester
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Historical Fiction
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Dragon’s Gate
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Laurence Yep
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
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James Lincoln Collier
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Nightjohn
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Gary Paulsen
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Summer of My German Soldier
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Bette Greene
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The Tamarack Tree
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Patricia Clapp
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Avi
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Fantasy
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Abel’s Island
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William Stein
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Tuck Everlasting
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Natalie Babbitt
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Science Fiction
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Martian Chronicles
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Ray Bradbury
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