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Walter, namesake of Sir Walter Scott and a rat that can read, lives in the home of Miss Amanda Pomeroy, a celebrated writer of children's books.

Paperback:

9781590789483 | Boyds Mills Pr, September 1, 2012, cover price $8.95

School and Library:

9781932425413 | Boyds Mills Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Walter, namesake of Sir Walter Scott and a rat that can read, lives in the home of Miss Amanda Pomeroy, a celebrated writer of children's books.

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A teenager considers himself the 'All-American' failure until he meets an eccentric old lady who helps him to see the true value of being an individual.

Paperback:

9781932425086 | Front Street Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A teenager considers himself the 'All-American' failure until he meets an eccentric old lady who helps him to see the true value of being an individual.
9780689703010, titled "Dream Watcher" | Atheneum, June 1, 1972, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A retired actress helps a lonely youth gain a better understanding and appreciation of himself

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In coastal France, a lame eleven-year-old boy named Clopinet is sold into apprenticeship to a cruel tailor, escapes, and overcomes his fear of everything in life through his love of the birds around him.

Hardcover:

9780807614341 | George Braziller, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Clopinet, a fearful eleven-year-old French apprentice, runs away from his master to live by himself on the cliffs of Normandy, where he learns to trust nature and to find his courage

Although Noli Brown and TJ Baker are practically soulmates and both agree that they love each other, TJ wonders if he can truly love Noli in the way he is supposed to as he is gay and struggles with his feelings and wonders about how Noli would react if she were to find out.

Hardcover:

9780805048506 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Noli feels as if she has found her soul mate when handsome, sensitive TJ moves to Sag Harbor, but even as their feelings deepen, individual secrets threaten their relationship

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In the middle of a small and largely unnoticed nervous breakdown, fifteen-year-old Joel tries to cope with the complications caused by his brother's sudden fame as a novelist, a devoted dog, and the kidnapping of his brother's former girlfriend.

Hardcover:

9780060204488 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Joel tries to cope with the complications caused by his brother's sudden fame as a novelist, a devoted dog, and the kidnapping of his brother's former girlfriend

Library:

9780060204495 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1992, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Fifteen-year-old Joel tries to cope with the complications caused by his brother's sudden fame as a novelist, a devoted dog, and the kidnapping of his brother's former girlfriend

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Teenaged Heidi Rosenbloom receives anonymous love letters extolling her many virtues and discovers they are from her twenty-five-year-old English teacher and that her mother, too, has a troubling suitor

Paperback:

9780440208839 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, May 1, 1991), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Heidi, a lonely child of divorced parents and a confirmed dog-lover, becomes entranced by a young man until she realizes that, for now, she must have her independence.

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Feeling unattractive, untalented, and misunderstood by her parents, a New York City teenager realizes that she is someone special through her friendship with a homeless street performer.

Paperback:

9780440208105 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1991), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Desperate for the guidance her inattentive mother has never given her, insecure Heidi seeks comfort in her friendship with Jeffrey, a young dancer whose determination to succeed inspires her

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A lonely teenager from Queens impulsively flies off to Switzerland on another man's passport and finds his life turning into a James Bond adventure

Library:

9780060264093 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1990, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: A lonely teenager from Queens impulsively flies off to Switzerland on another man's passport and finds his life turning into a James Bond adventure

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Seventeen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom decides against college when she finishes high school and to devote herself to stray dogs instead; but the entrance of photographer Harvey Beaumont into her life adds another dimension.

Hardcover:

9780060263782 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom decides against college when she finishes high school and to devote herself to stray dogs instead; but the entrance of photographer Harvey Beaumont into her life adds another dimension.

Eighteen-year-old Rita, an overweight writer living in a Long Island town, is caught between love for her parents and love for Arnold, a man twice her age

Hardcover:

9780060263638 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Eighteen-year-old Rita, an overweight writer living in a Long Island town, is caught between love for her parents and love for Arnold, a man twice her age.

Paperback:

9780440205807 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, February 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Eighteen-year-old Rita, an overweight writer living in a Long Island town, is caught between love for her parents and love for Arnold, a man twice her age

Yearning to join her beloved Arnold Bromberg in Zurich, Rita Formica sets out to earn the money for her plane fare by writing a trashy romance novel

Hardcover:

9780060263669 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Rita Formica, yearning to join her beloved Arnold Bromberg in Zurich, sets out to earn the money for her plane fare by writing a trashy romance novel

Paperback:

9780440205425 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Yearning to join her beloved Arnold Bromberg in Zurich, Rita Formica sets out to earn the money for her plane fare by writing a trashy romance novel

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Overweight all her life despite the efforts of family, friends, psychologists, and diet counselors, Rita Formica falls for handsome athlete Robert Swann and sets out to lose weight and change her image forever

Hardcover:

9780060264000 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.

Paperback:

9780440205371, titled "Fat: A Love Story" | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, December 1, 1989), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.

Library:

9780060264154, titled "Fat: A Love Story" | Harpercollins, July 1, 1987, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: During the summer she is sixteen, overweight Rita Formica falls in love with the most beautiful young man she's ever seen and is determined to win him at all costs.

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Teenaged Heidi Rosenbloom receives anonymous love letters extolling her many virtues and discovers they are from her twenty-five-year-old English teacher and that her mother, too, has a troubling suitor

Hardcover:

9780060263614 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Heidi, a lonely child of divorced parents and a confirmed dog-lover, becomes entranced by a young man until she realizes that, for now, she must have her independence.

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Feeling unattractive, untalented, and misunderstood by her parents, a New York City teenager realizes that she is someone special through her friendship with a homeless street performer.

Hardcover:

9780060263591 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1988, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Despite her fancy clothes, private-school education, and fairy-tale life, sixteen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom believes that she has nothing, until her friendship with Jeffrey, a gay homeless dancer brings new insight

Library:

9780060263607 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Despite her fancy clothes, private-school education, and fairy-tale life, sixteen-year-old Heidi Rosenbloom believes that she has nothing, until her friendship with Jeffrey, a gay homeless dancer brings new insight

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Fourteen-year-old Tyler Woodruff, the privilaged son of a successful New York stockbroker, meets Mitzi Gerard, a street-smart teenage waitress who widens Tyler's narrow view of life

Hardcover:

9780060263683 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, November 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers.

Library:

9780060263690 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1986, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers.

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A lonely young boy discovers a tiny circus in his backyard and its people and activities become all the world to him

Library:

9780886820572 | Creative Co, March 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A lonely young boy discovers a tiny circus in his backyard and its people and activities become all the world to him

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A rich young man, ignored at home, finds love and comfort with an unorthodox would-be actress.

Hardcover:

9780060264109 | Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1, 1982, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: A rich young man, ignored at home, finds love and comfort with an unorthodox would-be actress.

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Alison was transformed into a crystal child on the night of her mother's death and, now, many years later, stands in a rose garden, visited daily by an old man and a boy
By Donna Diamond (illustrator) and Barbara Wersba

Hardcover:

9780060263935 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1982, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: A young boy is haunted by, and later falls in love with, a crystal statue of a young girl of long ago.

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The 26 letters of the alphabet are strung together into a myriad of words and images.

Library:

9780060263775 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1980, cover price $8.79 | About this edition: An attractive picture-book imaginatively uses onomatopoeia to create words from the alphabet which in turn suggest images as fresh and stimulating as the title itself

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Paperback:

9780440991731 | Dell Pub Co, December 1, 1977, cover price $1.50 | also contains Winter Stroll

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J. F. McAllister, rebellious and melancholy, finds purpose in her life only when she falls in love with her poetry teacher, Harold Murth, and determines to rescue him from poverty

Hardcover:

9780060263720 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A rebellious New York teenager, having fallen in love with her poetry teacher, plans to rescue him from poverty.

Product Description: After his father's funeral, a youth writes a history of their difficult relationship and learns about his father, himself, and love

Paperback:

9780553134292 | Bantam Books, June 1, 1972, cover price $1.75 | also contains Recherches Sur L'economie Apulienne Au IIE Et Au Ier Siecle Avant Notre Ere | About this edition: After his father's funeral, a youth writes a history of their difficult relationship and learns about his father, himself, and love

School and Library:

9780689206115, titled "Run Softly, Go Fast." | Atheneum, June 1, 1970, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: After his father's funeral, a youth writes a history of their difficult relationship and learns about his father, himself, and love

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