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The Friendship Doll

The Friendship Doll

By Kirby Larson

This should DEFINITELY be a Newberry Honor winner! Finding friendship is not as easy as it seems for these 4 girls so Miss Kanagawa, an Ambassador of Friendship must assist them in becoming friends with not only REAL people but, herself in order to awake her heart in the midst of the Great Depression.

Bread and Roses, Too

Bread and Roses, Too

By Katherine Paterson

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

By Natalie S. Bober

KIDS! READ THIS!

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

By Sonia Manzano

Anyone who has been annoyed by the things that their parents say or do will relate to this book. This is the story of a teenage girl coming to understand and appreciate her own mother and her own culture during an important time in American history. Makes for good companion books to My Crazy Summer and Wednesday Wars in that it is another perspective of social movements in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. All three books speak of different movements from the perspective of three unique main characters.

Trouble on the Ohio River (The American Adventure Series #15)

Trouble on the Ohio River (The American Adventure Series #15)

By Norma Jean Lutz

Lucy is an obedient and cheerful girl most of the time. Her cousin is helpful and watches out for her in bad situations. When they are at the boat landing, they met Sadie Rose, who was a tavern singer and who is looking for her long lost brother. A piece of cloth could be the clue to finding Sadie's brother. Could Lucy and Ben help Sadie Rose? Read the book to find out for yourself.

Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa

Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa

By Micol Ostow

Its an awesome book, takes place in Puerto Rico.

Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Train

Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Train

By Sharon Gayle

The book Harriet Tubman and The Freedom train .She was born as a slave. She helped people to get to the north. Read this book to find out more. If you want to read a true story... this is the one!

Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

By David Guterson

Seriously, I don't get why this search engine can't find every book that exists in the world. I got this along with "Mathilda Savitch", and "The Night Circus". "The Night Circus" is so GOOD! I'm reading it right now.

Laddertop Volume 1

Laddertop Volume 1

By Orson Scott Card, Emily Janice Card

I read this one and it was really cool! I didn't know it would be so short, though; I could have read it in one day if I was going nonstop. And the second volume isn't even out yet! I'll be looking forward to pursuing the series.

It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte (Young Reader Fiction)

It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte (Young Reader Fiction)

By Pansie Hart Flood

3/25/13 It's about a kid named Tiger Turcotte his grandma got him a tiger clock for his birthday he likes it and it rrrr! and it scared him so he put it on beeping so that it wouldn't scare him and there is a big test for that day and he is scared so he brings his lucky pencils and they are taking a practice test and there are bubbles to fill in and he has to put in his first and last name in and his teachers name and his birthday and his race and he does not know what race he is so he skips it so that he don't get it wrong and at recess he acts like a spy and try's to find out what race everybody is and he finds out what everybody is and than he gets picked up after school by his dad and his dad is black and they have to go see a person to help her and they get done and they go get ice cream and Tiger gets 2 scoops of rainbow bubble gum and his dad gets 1 vanilla and 1 chocolate and Tiger picks out all the bubble gum and then he goes back to school and gets the race paper and they took out other and put in multiracial and he puts that one in bubbles

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