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Red and Me

by Vivian Turnbull

Set during the Great Depression, Terry Lee Caruthers’s historical novel "Red and Me" is a bittersweet story about a spunky girl and her bighearted hound. From the moment ten-year-old Marlene sees a skittish abandoned stray whose red... Read More

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Earhart

by Rebecca Foster

In Torben Kuhlmann’s lovely illustrated novel "Earhart", a field mouse builds an airplane to fly around the world, mirroring the exploits of the famous aviatrix. A mouse inventor who manufactures machines in her underground workshop... Read More

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Neshama

by Michelle Anne Schingler

In Marcella Pixley’s aching novel-in-verse "Neshama", a lonely, gifted girl navigates middle school tensions and family secrets with some supernatural help. For Anna, who records ghost poems in her notebook and is ostracized at school,... Read More

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Snake in the Grass

by Karen Rigby

A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

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