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Milkweed

a novel
  • Spinelli, Jerry
Follows a young Jewish orphan in the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two as he slowly understands the horrible reality that surrounds him and attempts to steal in order to help others survive.

Crosses

  • Stoehr, Shelley
1998
Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems.

Holes

  • Sachar, Louis
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 first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Kim

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The adventures of an orphaned white boy in India.

Coming to America

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A day no pigs would die

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To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.

The friends

  • Guy, Rosa
1996
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.

Flags of our fathers

heroes of Iwo Jima
  • Bradley, James
2006
Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment that has been immortalized in one of the most famous photographs of World War II.

The year without Michael

  • Pfeffer, Susan Beth
2002
The remaining members of the Chapman family try to cope with the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Michael.

The twisted window

  • Duncan, Lois
1991
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.

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