November 15, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Ann Mcgovern
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
Ann McGovern’s gay and informative book gives young readers a vivid picture of life in colonial New England from 1659 to 1730. The drawings help children imagine what it was really like to be a boy or girl in colonial days. [...]
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Also tagged 4-for-3 Books, 4-for-3 Books Store, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Ann Mcgovern, Binding (binding), Colonial & Revolutionary, Custom Stores, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology, Format (feature_browse-bin), General AAS, History & Historical Fiction, Mass Market, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Refinements, Scholastic Paperbacks, Social Science, Specialty Stores, Trade
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November 10, 2008 – 4:10 am
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Product Description
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight…for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged African American, Age Range (age_range), Ages 9-12, Anderson, Laurie Halse, Binding (binding), Colonial, Fiction, Format (feature_browse-bin), Hardcover, History & Historical Fiction, Laurie Halse Anderson, Military & Wars, Multicultural Stories, People & Places, Printed Books, Refinements, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Teens
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October 29, 2008 – 8:35 pm
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Susan S. Adler
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
Product Description
The American Girls Collection. This is Samantha. There are 6 books about Samantha and her family and friends.
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged Ages 9-12, All Children's Boxed Sets, American Girl, American Girl Publishing Inc, Binding (binding), Boxed Set, Boxed Sets, Custom Stores, Edition (format), Fiction, Format (feature_browse-bin), Formats, Historical, History & Historical Fiction, Issues, Mass Market, Paperback, Printed Books, Refinements, Samantha, Series, Specialty Stores, Susan S. Adler, Trade
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October 18, 2008 – 12:53 pm
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Product Description
No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged 20th Century, Adam Rex, Age Range (age_range), Ages 4-8, Binding (binding), Format (feature_browse-bin), Harcourt Children's Books, Hardcover, Humorous, Literature & Fiction, Monsters, Obsessions, Poetry, Printed Books, Refinements, Single Authors, World Literature
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October 6, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Product Description
Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Binding (binding), Drug Use & Abuse, Drugs, Ellen Hopkins, Emotions & Feelings, Family Life, Fiction, Format (feature_browse-bin), Hardcover, History & Historical Fiction, Issues, Margaret K. McElderry, People & Places, Printed Books, Refinements, Sexual Abuse, Social Issues, Social Situations, Teens, Westerns
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October 5, 2008 – 11:33 am
Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Product Description
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Binding (binding), Comic, Contemporary, David Foster Wallace, Format (feature_browse-bin), Literary, Literature & Fiction, Mass Market, Paperback, Penguin (Non-Classics), Printed Books, Refinements, Teens, Trade, Wallace, David Foster, World Literature
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September 24, 2008 – 2:52 pm
Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It’s 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that’s home to criminals like notorious [...]
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged 1900s, 4-for-3 Books, 4-for-3 Books Store, Age Range (age_range), Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Authors & Illustrators, A-Z, Binding (binding), Choldenko, Gennifer, Custom Stores, Family Life, Fiction, Format (feature_browse-bin), Gennifer Choldenko, History & Historical Fiction, Issues, Mass Market, Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Puffin, Refinements, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Siblings, Specialty Stores, Trade
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September 24, 2008 – 12:44 am
Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Amazon.com Review
Written by Lynne Cheney, author and wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, to honor this “beautiful land made more beautiful still by our commitment to freedom,” America: A Patriotic Primer is a proud celebration of [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Alphabet, Baby-3, Basic Concepts, Binding (binding), Hardcover, History & Historical Fiction, Lynne Cheney, People & Places, Politics & Government, Printed Books, Reference & Nonfiction, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Social Science
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September 21, 2008 – 12:35 pm
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Product Description
America had won the Revolution, but our troubles were far from over. The thirteen states were squabbling, the country could not pay its bills, and in Massachusetts farmers had taken up arms against the government. Was our country, which had fought [...]
September 19, 2008 – 12:18 am
Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Meghan McCain
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Born the son and grandson of military men, Senator John McCain from Arizona was destined for a life serving his country in the armed forces. Like many great men, he occasionally struggled with authority, but once he found his true calling — flying naval aircraft [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, Aladdin, Binding (binding), Biographies, Explore the World, Hardcover, History & Historical Fiction, Meghan McCain, People & Places, Political, Printed Books
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September 15, 2008 – 1:12 am
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Product Description
Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Audiobooks, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Blue Politics, Education, Hardcover, Health, Mind & Body, History & Historical Fiction, Horror, Howard Zinn, Literature & Fiction, Manga, Mysteries, Nonfiction, Other, Political Parties, Printed Books, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, School & Sports, Science & Technology, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Series, Seven Stories Press, Social Issues, Specialty Stores, Teens
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September 10, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: Collins
Product Description
Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Americas, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Collins, Davis, Kenneth C., Hardcover, History, Kenneth C. Davis, Printed Books, Specific Groups, Teens, Women
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September 9, 2008 – 1:29 pm
Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Product Description
Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust [...]
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Also tagged All Titles, Arts & Photography, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Book Clubs, Business & Investing, Computers & Internet, Contemporary, Cooking, Food & Wine, Custom Stores, Engineering, Entertainment, Erdrich, Louise, Gay & Lesbian, General AAS, Harper Perennial, Home & Garden, Humanities, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Louise Erdrich, Mass Market, Medicine, Native American, New & Used Textbooks, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, Paperback, Parenting & Families, Popular Fiction, Printed Books, Professional, Qualifying Textbooks, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Specialty Stores, Teens, Trade, Travel, World Literature
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September 7, 2008 – 12:23 am
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Product Description
Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, “learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ‘All the places to love are here [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, All Titles, Arts & Photography, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Investing, Computers & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Country Life, Custom Stores, Engineering, Entertainment, Explore the World, Family Life, Farm Life, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, General AAS, Hardcover, Home & Garden, Joanna Cotler, Literature & Fiction, MacLachlan, Patricia, Medicine, Multigenerational, New & Used Textbooks, New Baby, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, Parenting & Families, Patricia MacLachlan, People & Places, Picture Books, Printed Books, Professional, Qualifying Textbooks, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Specialty Stores, Teens, Travel, Where We Live
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September 4, 2008 – 5:13 pm
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Jeff Kurtti
Publisher: Disney Editions
Product Description
Fifty years ago, Walt Disney utterly transformed the concept of outdoor entertainment venues from tawdry carnivals and seedy amusement piers called “amusement parks,” to an entirely new destination that would come into common vernacular as the “theme park.” Although Disneyland was the inspiration of [...]
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Posted in Ages 4-8
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Also tagged Ages 4-8, All Titles, Architecture, Arts & Music, Arts & Photography, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Biography & History, Business & Finance, Business & Investing, Company Profiles, Computers & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Custom Stores, Disney Editions, Engineering, Entertainment, Explore the World, Gay & Lesbian, General AAS, Hardcover, History & Historical Fiction, Home & Garden, Humor, Jeff Kurtti, Literature & Fiction, Medicine, Movies, Music, New & Used Textbooks, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, Parenting & Families, People & Places, Performing Arts, Pop Culture, Printed Books, Professional, Professional & Technical, Puzzles & Games, Qualifying Textbooks, Radio, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Sheet Music & Scores, Specialty Stores, State & Local, Teens, Television, Travel
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August 24, 2008 – 7:16 am
Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Description
`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE. [...]
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, All Titles, Arts & Photography, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Finance, Business & Investing, Clyde Robert Bulla, Colonial, Communication & Journalism, Computer Science, Computers & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Custom Stores, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Family Life, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, HarperTrophy, History & Historical Fiction, Home & Garden, Homelessness & Poverty, Humanities, Law, Literature & Fiction, Mass Market, Medicine, Medicine & Health Sciences, New & Used Textbooks, Nonfiction, Orphans & Foster Homes, Outdoors & Nature, Paperback, Parenting & Families, People & Places, Printed Books, Professional, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Qualifying Textbooks, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Science & Mathematics, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Specialty Stores, Teens, Test Prep & Study Guides, Trade, Travel
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August 21, 2008 – 11:35 pm
Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Inc. Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged 1800s, Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Binding (binding), Custom Stores, Fiction, History & Historical Fiction, Inc. Sid Fleischman, Little, Brown Young Readers, Mass Market, Paperback, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Specialty Stores, Trade
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August 21, 2008 – 3:06 pm
Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Amazon.com
Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the [...]
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, All Titles, Arts & Photography, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Finance, Business & Investing, Communication & Journalism, Computer Science, Computers & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Custom Stores, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Erdrich, Louise, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, History & Historical Fiction, Home & Garden, Humanities, Hyperion Book CH, Law, Literature & Fiction, Louise Erdrich, Mass Market, Medicine, Medicine & Health Sciences, Multicultural Stories, Native American, Native North & South Americans, New & Used Textbooks, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, Paperback, Parenting & Families, People & Places, Printed Books, Professional, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Qualifying Textbooks, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, Social Situations, Specialty Stores, Teens, Test Prep & Study Guides, Trade, Travel, Values, World Literature
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August 20, 2008 – 7:38 am
Rating: (602 reviews)
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
Product Description
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros’s greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Academic & Commercial, Binding (binding), Cisneros, Sandra, Classics, Contemporary, Latin American, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Mass Market, Paperback, Printed Books, Reference, Sandra Cisneros, Teens, Trade, Vintage, World Literature, Writing
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August 13, 2008 – 1:41 am
Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Jane Bingham
Publisher: Usborne Books
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Africa, Americas, Ancient, Arctic & Antarctica, Asia, Audiobooks, Australia & Oceania, Binding (binding), Computers, Computers & Internet, Encyclopedias, Entertainment & Games, Europe, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Hardware, Historical Study, History, History & Historical Fiction, Internet, Jane Bingham, Large Print, Mass Market, Middle East, Military, Military Science, Paperback, Printed Books, Programming, Reference & Nonfiction, Russia, Science & Technology, Software, Teens, Trade, Usborne Books, World
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Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
Product Description
Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of [...]
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged Binding (binding), Contemporary, Erdrich, Louise, Hardcover, Harper, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Louise Erdrich, Native American, Printed Books, World Literature
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Rating: (406 reviews)
Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
A vicious captain, a mutinous crew – and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen [...]
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Posted in Ages 9-12
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Also tagged Action & Adventure, Adventure & Thrillers, Africa, Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, All Titles, Ancient Civilizations, Archive, Arts & Photography, Avi, Binding (binding), Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Finance, Business & Investing, Children's Books: Ages 9-12: General, Children's Books: History & Historical Fiction: Fic, Children's Books: Literature: General, Classics, Communication & Journalism, Computer Science, Computers & Internet, Cooking, Food & Wine, Custom Stores, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Europe, Exploration & Discoveries, Famous Women, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Girls & Women, HarperTrophy, Historical Fiction, History & Historical Fiction, Holocaust, Home & Garden, Humanities, Law, Literature & Fiction, Mass Market, Medicine, Medicine & Health Sciences, Medieval, Military & Wars, New & Used Textbooks, Nonfiction, Other, Outdoors & Nature, Paperback, Parenting & Families, People & Places, Prehistory, Printed Books, Professional, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Qualifying Textbooks, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Renaissance, Science, Science & Mathematics, Series, Social Sciences, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Teens, Test Prep & Study Guides, Trade, Travel
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Rating: (62 reviews)
Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Amazon.com
One day, Kansas wakes up grumpy. The other 49 states are stretching, yawning, and pouring maple syrup onto each other’s pancakes, but irritable Kansas announces to his kindly neighbor Nebraska that life is dull and changes must be made: “All day long [...]
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Also tagged Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Archive, Binding (binding), Children's Books: Ages 9-12: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Classics, Custom Stores, Explore the World, Fiction, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), Humorous, Keller, Laurie, Laurie Keller, Mass Market, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Series, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Trade, Travel
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Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl
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Posted in Teens
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Also tagged 1900s, Action & Adventure, Adoption, American Girl, Archive, Babysitting, Being a Teen, Binding (binding), Bullies, Children's Books: Issues: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Children's Literature Guides, Custom Stores, Dating & Intimacy, Disaster Preparedness, Divorce, Drug Use & Abuse, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Family, Fiction, First Day of School, Friendship, Girls & Women, Historical Fiction, History & Historical Fiction, Homosexuality, Humorous, Hygiene, Illness, Issues, Literary Criticism & Collections, Mass Market, Money, Moving, Multiculturalism, New Sibling, Nutrition, Paperback, People & Places, Personal Safety, Pet Death, Phobias, Poetry, Popular Culture, Popularity, Potty Training, Pregnancy, Prejudice, Prejudice & Racism, Printed Books, Read-Aloud, School, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Sex Education, Sexual Abuse, Short Story Collections, Shyness, Sleep, Social Issues, Social Skills, Special Needs, Specialty Stores, Suicide, Teens, Teens: Social Issues: General, Tolerance, Trade, Twins, Valerie Tripp, Violence, Weight
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