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Lana's Lakota Moons

Lana’s Lakota Moons is an endearing story of two young girls—cousins by birth, sisters by tradition—as they learn the ancient customs of their Lakota Indian heritage. With their new friend Shoua, a Vietnamese refugee, Lana and Lori... Read More

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For Now

In this follow-up novel to Losing Forever, Jes Miner-Cooper’s life is full of excitement, growth, and love even as she struggles to deal with the death of her little sister Alberta, her mother’s new marriage to Cal, and her... Read More

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The Winter Road

Silence blankets Willa’s rugged survival trek in this novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who crashes her uncle’s Cessna on a solo flight from Ontario in January. Once the storm that causes the crash subsides, Willa waits a week by... Read More

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The Illustrator's Notebook

“This book opens on the other side.” The unexpected label on an otherwise unadorned cover promises an unusual and challenging reading experience. And that promise is quickly fulfilled as the reader is drawn into the world of Arabic... Read More

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Miriam's Journey

by Carla L. Verderame

This young adult title is an engaging story about Miriam Bloom and her family, who set out from their difficult life in czarist Russia to travel across the ocean to America to join their father. Samuel Bloom has already made his way to... Read More

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Sun Moon Stars Rain

This book’s title is taken from E.E. Cummings’s poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” but it also signifies the poetic language this author uses to describe the wonders of nature. As the book opens, personification helps... Read More

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Robin

by Iris Blasi

Young horse lovers everywhere will fall in love with this book, fourth in a series about Morgan horses. The novel tells the story of fourteen-year-old Karen, a budding horsewoman with her own Morgan horse, Robin. One day, a group of more... Read More

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Book of Reality

by Carol Lynn Stewart

This reissue of Book Nine of the Diadem Worlds of Magic series takes four characters from the Diadem series—Pixel, Jenna, Score, and Herlaine—to Pixel’s home of Calomir, on the outer rim of the Diadem. All Pixel wants to do is... Read More

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