![The graveyard book [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52664@2x.jpg)
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Neil Gaiman
(487,590)
Summary: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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![When you reach me [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52762@2x.jpg)
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Rebecca Stead
(104,698)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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![The voyages of Doctor Dolittle [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54646@2x.jpg)
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Hugh Lofting
Summary: Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the most amazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the...
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![The voyages of Doctor Dolittle [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54658@2x.jpg)
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Hugh Lofting
(16,424)
Summary: When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
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![The tale of Despereaux [eBook] / being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56417@2x.jpg)
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Kate DiCamillo
(181,479)
Summary: The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
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![A year down yonder [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56479@2x.jpg)
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Richard Peck
(28,835)
Summary: In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually...
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![Bridge to Terabithia [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/56509@2x.jpg)
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Katherine Paterson
(497,716)
Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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![M.C. Higgins, the great [eBook]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Virginia Hamilton
(4,143)
Summary: As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
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![Moon over Manifest [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/57587@2x.jpg)
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Clare Vanderpool
(32,756)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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![Bud, not Buddy [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61276@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
(104,585)
Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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![The midwife's apprentice [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61280@2x.jpg)
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Karen Cushman
(41,608)
Summary: In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
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![Ginger Pye [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61349@2x.jpg)
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Eleanor Estes
(12,434)
Summary: The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
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![The giver [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61525@2x.jpg)
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Lois Lowry
(2,101,312)
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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![Island of the Blue Dolphins [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61614@2x.jpg)
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Scott O'Dell
(314,635)
Summary: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but...
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![The witch of Blackbird Pond [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61740@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth George Speare
(145,056)
Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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![Holes [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63467@2x.jpg)
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Louis Sachar
(1,084,397)
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his...
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![Johnny Tremain [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/72863@2x.jpg)
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Esther Forbes
(45,581)
Summary: Johnny Tremain, a silversmith's apprentice, takes part in the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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![Flora & Ulysses [eBook] : the illuminated adventures](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/93004@2x.jpg)
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Kate DiCamillo
(46,551)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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![The crossover [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/127964@2x.jpg)
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Kwame Alexander
(50,757)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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![Last stop on Market Street [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146248@2x.jpg)
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Matt de la Peña
(15,979)
Summary: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How...
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![The girl who drank the moon [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/157196@2x.jpg)
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Kelly Regan Barnhill
(75,467)
Summary: "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the...
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![Merci Suarez changes gears [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/195483@2x.jpg)
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Meg Medina
(6,956)
Summary: Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and...
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