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Vanderbeekers volume 4
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351 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
22) Outside in
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English
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"Lynn's own life is full with choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family who are both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn. Blossom's own family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker beneath a city reservoir. Lynn is enchanted...
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181 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother's last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith.
25) Alegría plena
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Español
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"Sumergidos en un anochecer rojizo de invierno, un organillero y su mono aparecen en la esquina de la calle de Francisca. La niña se preocupa al ver que el hombre y el mono siguen en la calle muy tarde por la noche. Llega el día de la representación navideña y cuando le toca hablar a Francisca, no puede pensar en otra cosa que en los ojos tristes del organillero -- hasta que justo a tiempo, encuentra las palabras perfectas para compartir"--P....
26) Mr. Stink
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265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Mr. Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well... Chloe sees Mr. Stink every day, but she's never spoken to him. Which isn't surprising, because he's a tramp, and he stinks. But there's more to Mr. Stink than meets the eye (or nose) and before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual new friend hiding in her garden shed. As Chloe struggles to keep Mr. Stink a secret, and her dad tries to hide a...
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xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings (who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless but the kids can drive) are back! After losing the boat that had become their home, oldest Fitzgerald-Trout, Kim, has put finding a home back on her to-do list. When her sixth-grade history assignment offers a clue about the ruins of a volcanic house built by an explorer on Mount Muldoon, she and her siblings set out to find it. The castle they discover...
28) Dear Librarian
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English
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When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed. Lydia's mom took her to a new place - not a house, but a big building with stone columns, and tall, tall steps. The library.
In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the sunny window, at a round desk. For behind that...
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6 audio discs (6 hr., 52 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
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162 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
31) Born behind bars
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English
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In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
32) La fosa del lobo
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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Al crecer en las sombras de dos guerras mundiales, Annabelle ha llevado una vida tranquila y estable en su pequęa ciudad de Pensilvania. Hasta el ̕da en que la nueva estudiante Betty Glengarry entra a su clase. Betty ̀rpidamente se revela cruel y manipuladora, y aunque su intimidac̤in parece aislada al principio, las cosas escalan ̀rpidamente, y el solitario veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial Toby se convierte en el blanco de sus ataques....
33) Shelter
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179 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
34) Girl in pieces
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406 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
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