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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2011
Age Range: 10 - 14
The story of three Iñupiaq children (then known as Eskimos) living above the Arctic Circle who are sent to a Catholic boarding school with other children, white and Indian.
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Pub Date: Apr 5, 2011
Age Range: 10 - 14
It's 1968.
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Pub Date: Apr 1, 2011
Age Range: 14 - 18
When her gay best friend is brutally beaten in contemporary Black Creek, N.C., a withdrawn teen tracks his assailant.
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Pub Date: Mar 17, 2011
Age Range: 14 - 18
"I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged. Now, if you please."
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Pub Date: Feb 22, 2011
Age Range: 9 - 12
An enlightening, poignant and unexpectedly funny novel in verse is rooted in the author's childhood experiences.
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The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
Pub Date: Feb 8, 2011
Age Range: 12 - 18
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 resulted in the greatest loss of life in a New York City workplace until the 9/11 attacks nearly a century later.
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