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2010 Best Children's Books: Fiction with Great Boy Characters

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Pub Date: Oct 26, 2010
Age Range: 9 - 12
After a childhood spent moving constantly across two countries, Rex wonders why his parents can't settle down.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 11
School lunch bites—literally—in the third impossibly droll escapade featuring dragonling Danny Dragonbreath and his peace-loving iguana buddy, Wendell.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 9 - 12
In 1347 at a country monastery, a wondrous mystery unfolds.
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
Anyone who has said that pirates are an overused motif in youth literature has not yet met Walker Bean.
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Pub Date: Aug 31, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 11
"The short, sad life of Tooley Graham was over," doesn't sound like a happy conclusion but is pitch perfect in this short, simple and endearing middle-grade novel that follows on the heels of The Small Adeventure of Popeye and Elvis (2009).
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Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjiro
Pub Date: Aug 1, 2010
Age Range: 9 - 13
In 1841, 14-year-old Manjiro joined four others on an overnight fishing trip.
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