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Tyler On Prime Time
Steve Atinsky
Delacorte (2002)
While visiting his uncle, a writer on the most popular show on television, twelve-year-old Tyler auditions for a part on the show. |
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Runt
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion (2002)
Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father, King, and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name. |
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Marion Dane Bauer
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The Goblin Wood
Hilari Bell
HarperCollins (2003)
A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures.
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Attack Of The Mutant Underwear
Tom Birdseye
Holiday House (2003)
Fifth-grader Cody Carson keeps a journal of his hopes for a fresh start in a town where nobody knows about his humiliating mistakes of the past, but before school even begins so does his embarrassment. |
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Lesson plan: “Dear Diary Day” |
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Hoop Girlz
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Holiday House (2002)
When ten-year-old River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the tournament set up in the town of Azalea, Oregon, she decides to organize a team of her own and accepts the help of her older brother
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“What Makes a Good Community?” |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
Putnam (2004)
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. |
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Every Day And All The Time
Sis Boulos Deans
Henry Holt (2003)
Eleven-year-old Emily, still reeling from the car accident that took her older brother's life and badly injured her, uses psychotherapy and ballet to cope with her parents' decision to sell their house – the only place she can still feel and talk to her brother.
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Lesson Plan: “Coping with Loss” |
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Double Dutch
Sharon M. Draper
Atheneum (2002)
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
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American Double Dutch League Homepage |
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Who Is Stealing The Twelve Days Of Christmas?
Martha Freeman
Holiday House (2003)
When parts of outdoor Christmas displays go missing from neighborhood yards, nine-year-old Alex and his friend Yasmeen investigate.
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The Gorillas of Gill Park
Amy Gordon
Holiday House (2003)
While spending the summer before seventh grade with his aunt, Willy Wilson finds his first friends ever in the colorful characters who all love the neighborhood park owned by an eccentric old man.
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Guerrilla Season
Pat Hughes
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2003)
Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops."
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Room In The Heart
Sonia Levitin
Dutton (2003)
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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Fame And Glory In Freedom, Georgia
Barbara O'Connor
Farrar (2003)
Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.
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Yankee Girl
Mary Ann Rodman
Farrar (2004)
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Missippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school. |
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Brainboy and the Deathmaster
Tor Seidler
HarperCollins (2003)
When Darryl, a twelve-year-old orphan, is adopted by a technology genius, he finds himself the star of his very own life-threatening video game. |
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Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo
Greg L. Smith
Little, Brown (2003)
Honoria, Shohei, and Elias, who are "united together against That Which Is The Peshtigo School," face conflict over their budding romantic interest and a science project gone awry.
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The Revealers
Doug Wilhelm
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2003)
Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School.
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The Red Rose Box
Brenda A.Woods
Putnam (2002)
In 1953, Leah Hopper dreams of leaving the poverty and segregation of her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and when Aunt Olivia sends train tickets to Los Angeles as part of her tenth birthday present, Leah gets a first taste of freedom.
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Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee
Arthur A. Levine Books (2003)
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
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The Tiger's Apprentice
LaurenceYep
HarperCollins (2003)
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
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