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• Where the Red Fern Grows

  the Story of Two Dogs and a Boy

  Rawls, Wilson

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  Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cider House Rules

  Irving, John, 1942-

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  Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.

• Bridge to Terabithia

  Katherine, Paterson

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  This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giving Tree

  Silverstein, Shel

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  A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.

• From Scratch

  Anderson-Dargatz, Gail, 1963-

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  A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food and family in her darkest hour.

• Fruits Basket. 1

  Takaya, Natsuki, 1973-

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  After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreamland

  Sparks, Nicholas,

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  When Colby Mills sees his dreams of a music career derailed by tragedy, he becomes the head of a small family farm in North Carolina. There he finds a new love interest, Morgan Lee, an aspiring musician who hopes to someday move to Nashville and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drowning

  the Rescue of Flight 1421

  Newman, T. J. (Novelist),

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  When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firefly Lane

  Hannah, Kristin

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  In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Watch That Ends the Night

  Voices From the Titanic

  Wolf, Allan

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  Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope -- twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force. Slipping in telegraphs, undertaker's reports, and other records, poet Allan Wolf…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

• The Mountain Between Us

  Martin, Charles, 1969-

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  Stranded in a frigid mountain wilderness after a plane crash, a gifted surgeon and a young magazine writer are forced to rely on each other for survival while confronting painful truths about their personal lives.

• Pay It Forward

  Hyde, Catherine Ryan

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  Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet, i.e., to think of something to change the world and put…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Velveteen Rabbit Or, How Toys Become Real

  Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944

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  By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.

• The Little Prince

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944

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  An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.

• Crave

  Wolff, Tracy

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  Grace's world changed when she joined the academy. At the academy she is a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She can't decide which faction she should join, or if she should join any of them. The one thing that unites them is their hatred of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fullmetal Alchemist. Volumes 1-2-3

  Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973-

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  When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in the powers of alchemy to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living iron. Now they are agents of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fault in Our Stars

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.