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True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

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• ISBN-13: 9780380728855
• Sales Rank: 3,003
• Pub. Date: April 1997

In 1832, Charlotte Doyle, a thirteen-year-old school girl, is returning to her family in America from her school in England. Charlotte's voyage takes place on the Seahawk, a ...  More

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Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Dan Craig (Illustrator) , Dan Craig (Illustrator) , Margaret Peterson Haddix

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• ISBN-13: 9780689812361
• Sales Rank: 10,297
• Pub. Date: February 1997

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and ...  More

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Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

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• ISBN-13: 9780064408196
• Sales Rank: 13,291
• Pub. Date: September 2001

When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.  More

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Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng

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• ISBN-13: 9780060514099
• Sales Rank: 26,097
• Pub. Date: April 2004

Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York ...  More

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Zia by Scott O'Dell

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• ISBN-13: 9780440410010
• Sales Rank: 26,582
• Pub. Date: January 1995

A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the ...  More

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Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng

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• ISBN-13: 9780060514150
• Sales Rank: 28,510
• Pub. Date: April 2005

Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans ...  More

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Lupita Mañana by Patricia Beatty, Lucas Guttentag (Afterword)

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• ISBN-13: 9780380732470
• Sales Rank: 28,673
• Pub. Date: October 2000

To help her poverty-stricken family, 13-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra."  More

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Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator) , Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)

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• ISBN-13: 9781416902447
• Sales Rank: 25,842
• Pub. Date: May 2007

Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie's ever lost in the desert, or buried in ...  More

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