Rebecca Stead
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When a mysterious little free library (guarded by Mortimer, a large. 6-toed orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves. He and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and the fatal fire that destroyed the town library-- a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The boys start asking questions whose answers will...
3) Liar & spy
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Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
5) Anything
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After moving to a new apartment, a father tells his daughter to wish for three Anythings, but when she admits she wishes to return to their old home, her dad helps her realize home is where they are together.
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As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvaceous Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
7) First light
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When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
11) Bob
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2018.
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208 pages ; 20 cm.
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Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.




