CHILDREN'S
Released: May 25, 2010
"Sweet, funny and superb. (Historical fiction. 9-13)"
Eleven-year-old Turtle falls in with the Diaper Gang—her boy cousins Beans, Kermit and Buddy and their friends Ira and Pork Chop—when she is packed off to stay in her mother's hometown of Key West because her housekeeper mother has a new job with a woman who doesn't like kids.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 11, 2010
Holt infuses the American pioneer landscape with a hint of magical realism in this intimate and epic coming-of-age tale.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2010
"A truly extraordinary page-turner that embraces life's big and small aspects with humor and a healthy respect for its profound contradictions. (Historical fiction. 11 & up)"
It seems unfair to 11-year-old Georgie Mason that in Indiana's summer heat she can't go swimming or even to the movies for fear of catching polio.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2010
"A brief selection of Neruda's poems (in translation), a bibliography and an author's note enrich an inviting and already splendid, beautifully presented work. (Historical fiction. 9-13)"
Ryan's fictional evocation of the boy who would become Pablo Neruda is rich, resonant and enchanting.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2010
"A gem. (author's note, bibliography) (Historical fiction. 10-14)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2010
"A resonant shot to the heart—Gleitzman delivers a sharp sense of what it must have been like to be a child during the Holocaust, forced to grow up far too quickly. (Historical fiction. 12 & up)"
When his Jewish parents place young Felix in an orphanage in war-torn Poland, they tell him that they must leave to fix their book business.
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