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Chronicles a Boston girl's summer vacation on her grandmother's ranch in Montana.

School and Library:

9780689206757 | Atheneum, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A Boston girl reluctantly goes to live with her grandmother in the West and soon learns not only about the people of Montana but about herself

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9780689703126 | Atheneum, June 1, 1972, cover price $0.95

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When his father announces they are taking a paying guest on their hunting trip, a young boy suspects the newcomer is more interested in killing than photographing animals.

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9780689300509 | Atheneum, September 1, 1972, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A young boy's concern about the killing of a mountain lion reveals the author's interest in protecting endangered species

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Three teen-age girls run away from their homes in Florida to look for a better life in a Montana ghost town.

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9780689300493 | Atheneum, September 1, 1972, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A young girl and two of her friends journey to Montana to begin an adventure in primitive living

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Paperback:

9780689703584 | Atheneum, February 1, 1973, cover price $0.95

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Chronicles the early years of a young male wolf stressing his important role in the wild.

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9780689300837 | Atheneum, March 1, 1973, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: As a wolf cub struggles to survive in the wild it learns to avoid its natural and human enemies

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Young David learns to accept responsibility when he takes a job at the shipyard to help his family during the summer of 1910
By Barbara Corcoran and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689301070 | Atheneum, June 1, 1973, cover price $6.25 | About this edition: The summer he takes his first full time job, David learns a lot about what it means to be a man.

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Seeking help for her nearly blind grandfather, thirteen-year-old Laurie travels across Montana

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9780689704048 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1974, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: A young girl rides alone across Montana to get help for her grandfather who is going blind.

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When Gail learns she must stay with an uncle she hates while her mother is in a mental hospital, she decides to escape
By Barbara Corcoran and Gail Owens (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689301339 | Atheneum, March 1, 1974, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In her desperate attempt to escape custody of her cruel uncle, thirteen-year-old Gail finds refuge with the Partridges, a strange family living isolated in a spooky house in the woods.

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Product Description: Deafened by an illness, fourteen-year-old Margaret refuses to accept her condition and runs away in fear that her mother's remarriage may mean she'll be sent to a boarding school for the deaf.

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9780689704406 | Atheneum, March 1, 1977, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Deafened by an illness, fourteen-year-old Margaret refuses to accept her condition and runs away in fear that her mother's remarriage may mean she'll be sent to a boarding school for the deaf.

School and Library:

9780689304064, titled "A Dance to Still Music" | Atheneum, August 1, 1974, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A deaf girl decides to run away after receiving news that her mother is to remarry

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While on a trip to Samarkand with her family, a fat, awkward fourteen-year-old discovers her own strong points during an inadvertent involvement with drug smugglers.
By Barbara Corcoran and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

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9780689304460 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An overweight teenage girl on vacation in Russia gains the attention of her sister's handsome boyfriend when she becomes involved in a crime

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Eighteen-year-old Jordan Phillips, stricken with a rare and fatal muscular-vascular disease, prepares to make the most of the short time left to him

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9780689304668 | Atheneum, August 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An eighteen-year-old boy tries to cope with the realization that he has a fatal disease.

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Recently orphaned Liza accompanies her aunt and uncle on a return visit to Moscow, where she befriends and decides to help a Georgian circus clown who is fleeing the KGB

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9780689304651 | Atheneum, August 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A sixteen-year-old American girl becomes involved with a circus clown in Moscow who is sought by the KGB.

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On the eve of World War II a young girl handicapped by a reading disability tries to cope with family problems and the question of her future.

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9780689304989 | Atheneum, March 1, 1976, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: As the world's nations and her brother and boyfriend go to war, Elinor comes to grips with her own private wars and finds an unanticipated opportunity to exercise her talents

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In pursuit of a career as a theatrical director, a Maine youth goes to live in New York

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9780689305214 | Atheneum, August 1, 1976, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In pursuit of a career as a theatrical director, a Maine youth goes to live in New York

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Lynn spends a year with her grandmother on Nantucket Island and, taking advantage of the old woman's forgetfulness, does not go to school, a course of action that ultimately brings serious trouble to Lynn and her grandmother

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9780689305504 | Scribner, February 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Arriving on Nantucket Island for a year with her grandmother, Lynn finds herself faced with problems of her grandmother's age, 'tough kids' at school, and her own lack of self-confidence.

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Seventeen-year-old Robbie Benson finds life very difficult despite his new Fiat and wealthy background until he uncovers some interesting facts about the father who deserted him when he was five

Hardcover:

9780395253007 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Robbie Benson finds life very difficult despite his new Fiat and wealthy background until he uncovers some interesting facts about the father who deserted him when he was five

Paperback:

9780553234121 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, October 1, 1982), cover price $1.95 | also contains Eres tú mi mamá / Are Your My Mother?

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Stuck in a small town on Hawaii with her reclusive mother and her brothers, one a bully and the other an escapist, Melody begins to believe that she has the magical powers of the ancient Hawaiian goddesses

Hardcover:

9780689305801 | Atheneum, July 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A twelve-year-old girl living in Hawaii gets caught up in the myths and superstitions of the area.

Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another

Hardcover:

9780689306174 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Because of serious troubles in her parents' marriage, Rachel is sent to Palm Springs to live with her grandparents and, through two children disliked by their stepfather, she comes to understand the importance people have for one another

Paperback:

9780689704864 | Atheneum, March 1, 1981, cover price $2.95

Because she feels that CoCo Rainbolt, her crippled father, her domineering aunt, and her baseball coach are trying to control her life, Maggie decides to run away and join a professional baseball team

Hardcover:

9780689306754 | Atheneum, March 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Although she loves her disabled father, a young girl longs to get away from home and is drawn to the idea of going to a baseball training camp for women.

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Considered a nuisance to her parents, Hope is shipped off to Ireland for the summer with a young woman who also has personal problems.

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9780689307362 | Scribner, February 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: After refusing to be sent away to camp for yet another summer, Hope reluctantly agrees to tour Ireland with Eileen Helding, a young woman just recovering from an emotionally draining romance

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While vacationing with their mother and new stepfather in a semi-deserted plantation house outside New Orleans, a boy and a girl discover a murder and help track down the murderer.

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9780689307744 | Atheneum, August 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Dorothy and Franklin fly to New Orleans to stay with their mother and new stepfather, but when they move into the new house strange things begin to happen and there is suddenly a murder to be solved

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9780345286673 | Ballantine Books, February 1, 1981, cover price $1.95

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Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton

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9780345297341 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton

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Two girls stumble upon things at their recently reopened camp that make them believe someone has been living there during the years the camp was deserted.

School and Library:

9780689308406 | Atheneum, August 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A small pond and mysterious boat are the center of strange activities encountered by Stella and Kim during their summer at Camp Allegro

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