How Mirka Got Her Sword
Pub Date: Nov 1, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 14
Like all 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls, ebullient Mirka must face a six-armed troll to avoid becoming his dinner and obtain a dragon-slaying sword—wait, what?
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Pub Date: Oct 26, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 14
This sequel to The Georges and the Jewels (2009) is Smiley at her finest—detailed, nuanced, absorbing.
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Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 16
The childhood of African-American literary giant Zora Neale Hurston is brought to life with this fictionalized account.
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Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 14
When 12-year-old Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kan., in 1936 to stay with her father's boyhood friend, little does she know her sojourn will take her back, via mesmerizing tales, newspaper clippings, curious mementoes and World War I letters, to Manifest as it was in 1918—and into the life of the mysterious boy nicknamed Jinx.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 12
Children's literature has a long history of cruel parents, but Hope Scroggins's are so heartless, they kick their tiny girl Honey out of the car for laughing… and never turn back.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 9 - 13
Fifth grade BFFs Katie-Rose, Yasaman, Violet and Camilla ride again in this stride-hitting second entry in the Flower Power series (Luv Ya Bunches, 2009).
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