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Product Description: Ellie Martin fiercely resists her new dog's charmsIt isn't Ellie's fault, really. She's always wanted a puppy, and now that she's almost nine, finally old enough to get one, Preston is foisted on her. What's more, her parents say that this fully grown mutt that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep will have to do...read more

Hardcover:

9780374355319 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep

Paperback:

9780374455385 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 9, 2001), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep.

Reinforced:

9780606213578 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $13.55 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep.

Prebinding:

9781439554852 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 1, 2008), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Ellie Martin fiercely resists her new dog's charmsIt isn't Ellie's fault, really.

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Until now, ten-year-old Ben has believed that life is made up of 'all right' and 'not all right' stuff, but when his father remarries and the couple adopts a Chinese baby, he wonders which kind of stuff will prevail.

School and Library:

9780374306588 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 20, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Until now, ten-year-old Ben has believed that life is made up of 'all right' and 'not all right' stuff, but when his father remarries and the couple adopts a Chinese baby, he wonders which kind of stuff will prevail.

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When Zenobia, the grandmother she never knew she had, falls deathly ill, Kiara Jones-Birkell meets her for the first time and comes face-to-face with her mother's secret past, in this hilarious story of three generations of hard-headed women.

Hardcover:

9780374374426 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 18, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Having grown up knowing nothing about her artist mother's estranged family, thirteen-year-old Kiara spends the summer getting acquainted with her cousins and trying to understand her complex and cranky grandmother.

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Although terrified of dogs, nine-year-old Sara forces herself to face a labrador retriever and a dalmatian when she must help her next-door neighbor, who has fallen and broken her leg.
By Amy June Bates (illustrator) and Colby F. Rodowsky

School and Library:

9780374364106 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 10, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Although terrified of dogs, nine-year-old Sara forces herself to face a labrador retriever and a dalmatian when she must help her next-door neighbor, who has fallen and broken her leg.

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After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally 'different,' must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Hardcover:

9780374313388 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally 'different,' must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Paperback:

9780060006181 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally 'different,' must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Reinforced:

9780606297134 | Demco Media, March 1, 2004, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally 'different,' must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

Prebinding:

9780613851596 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: After their parents divorce, eleven-year-old Elsie and her younger brother Tommy, who is mentally 'different,' must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding.

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After his mother dies, seventeen-year-old Zach Pearce travels from Ohio to Baltimore, Maryland, to find the father he has never met, and chapters alternating between Zach and his half-sister describe how the members of the family adjust.

Hardcover:

9780374355487 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 15, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After his mother dies, seventeen-year-old Zach travels from Ohio to Baltimore, Maryland, to find the father he has never met, and chapters alternating between Zach and his half-sister describe how the members of the family adjust.

During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

Hardcover:

9780374371555 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family life in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing drastically as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

Paperback:

9780064409919 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

Reinforced:

9780606245975 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.05 | About this edition: During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

Prebinding:

9780613830102 | Turtleback Books, May 30, 2002, cover price $14.25 | About this edition: During the summer after seventh grade, Cassie sees her close-knit family in Bethany Beach, Delaware, changing as her older sister has a baby, reveals the true nature of her husband, and announces the breakup of her marriage.

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When his family travels to their many baseball games, Jason finds himself a seat in the bleachers where he spends his time tapping out music on anything and everything around him, so when his Granddad takes notice of his special musical talents, Jason soon receives a fantastic present.
By Beth Peck (illustrator) and Colby F. Rodowsky

Hardcover:

9780374336714 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 8, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Jason's brother, sister, and parents all play baseball or soccer or tennis, but until his grandfather buys him a drum, Jason doesn't want to play anything.

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When Livvy's mother dies, she is sent to live with her mother's friend who welcomes her into her home, yet the warm feelings aren't immediately reciprocated as it takes Livvy some time to get adjusted to her sudden loss and new surroundings. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780374378899 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 'conversations' with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.

Paperback:

9780380731923 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In 'conversations' with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.

Reinforced:

9780606178853, titled "Turnabout Shop" | Demco Media, April 1, 2000, cover price $12.26 | About this edition: In 'conversations' with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.

Product Description: "Annie is about to graduate from high school, an event that intensifies all her memories of another graduation two years before, when her sister was murdered...Present-day events intermingle with Annie's recollections of the past...read more

Hardcover:

9780374346638 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier.

Paperback:

9780380729227 | Flare, August 1, 1998, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781402514364 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: "Annie is about to graduate from high school, an event that intensifies all her memories of another graduation two years before, when her sister was murdered.

Reinforced:

9780606137362 | Demco Media, August 1, 1998, cover price $11.30 | About this edition: After graduating from a private high school in Baltimore, Annie comes to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered two years earlier

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The growing suspicion that her mother might be an alcoholic, despite her family's denials, threatens twelve-year-old Hannah's safe and predictable world when she decides to face the truth about her mother's condition

Hardcover:

9780374328375 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As she starts seventh grade, twelve-year-old Hannah can no longer ignore her mother's increasingly erratic behavior caused by drinking.

Paperback:

9780816737406 | Reprint edition (Troll Communications Llc, April 1, 1996), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: As she starts seventh grade, twelve-year-old Hannah can no longer ignore her mother's increasingly erratic behavior caused by drinking.

Reinforced:

9780606087698 | Demco Media, April 1, 1996, cover price $10.70 | About this edition: As she starts seventh grade, twelve-year-old Hannah can no longer ignore her mother's increasingly erratic behavior caused by drinking.

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Mudge moves to the gatehouse of Edgemont Cemetery with his parents and discovers new friends, the long-departed inhabitants of Edgemont, and a letter from Aunt Ernestus Stokes further complicates matters

Hardcover:

9780374325206 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1981, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After Aunt Ernestus comes to visit, a family living in seclusion as caretakers for a cemetery find the time has come to rejoin the mainstream of society.

Paperback:

9780374425203 | Sunburst, September 1, 1995, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: After Aunt Ernestus comes to visit, a family living in seclusion as caretakers for a cemetery find the time has come to rejoin the mainstream of society.

Reinforced:

9780606093118 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.10 | About this edition: After Aunt Ernestus comes to visit, a family living in seclusion as caretakers for a cemetery find the time has come to rejoin the mainstream of society.

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A sequel to the acclaimed novel Sydney, Herself finds Sydney Downie in her junior year of high school, facing a series of problems including her mom's new marriage and pregnancy, a difficult new teacher, and trouble in her boyfriend's family.

Hardcover:

9780374373658 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: If having a mother for a teacher and being assigned editor of the school newspaper were not enough crises in her life, Sydney deals with feelings of confusion when her newlywed mother becomes pregnant.

Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City

Hardcover:

9781560546115 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City
9780374363819 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City

Paperback:

9780374446598 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1994), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City

Reinforced:

9780606253031 | Demco Media, December 1, 1994, cover price $11.81 | About this edition: Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City

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Sydney tries to prove to her writing teacher that her father was a member of the famed Australian musical group 'The Boomerangs,' and soon has her mother involved with both the assignment and the teacher

Hardcover:

9780374306496 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1989, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As she writes in her self-awareness journal assigned in English class, fifteen-year-old Sydney tries to discover her true identity and comes to terms with her obsession about her absent father.

Paperback:

9780374473907 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, September 1, 1993), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: As she writes in her self-awareness journal assigned in English class, fifteen-year-old Sydney tries to discover her true identity and comes to terms with her obsession about her absent father.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788753725 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 1989), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: As she writes in her self-awareness journal assigned in English class, fifteen-year-old Sydney tries to discover her true identity and comes to terms with her obsession about her absent father.

Reinforced:

9780606060448 | Demco Media, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: As she writes in her self-awareness journal assigned in English class, fifteen-year-old Sydney tries to discover her true identity and comes to terms with her obsession about her absent father.

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Disgusted about spending the summer with the social-outcast grandniece of her eccentric baby-sitter, Rosie Riggs soon discovers that she and Skinny-Bones share a love of the 'Super-Dog' books and that the author of the books, Dawn O'Day, is one of her new neighbors.Disgusted about spending the summer with the grandniece of her baby-sitter, Rosie Riggs soon discovers that she and Skinny-Bones share a love of the 'Super-Dog' books

Hardcover:

9780374363420 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1990, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Disgusted about spending the summer with the grandniece of her baby-sitter, Rosie Riggs soon discovers that she and Skinny-Bones share a love of the 'Super-Dog' books

Paperback:

9780374418182 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, April 1, 1993), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Disgusted about spending the summer with the social-outcast grandniece of her eccentric baby-sitter, Rosie Riggs soon discovers that she and Skinny-Bones share a love of the 'Super-Dog' books and that the author of the books, Dawn O'Day, is one of her new neighbors.

Reinforced:

9780606052375 | Demco Media, April 1, 1993, cover price $11.76 | About this edition: Disgusted about spending the summer with the social-outcast grandniece of her eccentric baby-sitter, Rosie Riggs soon discovers that she and Skinny-Bones share a love of the 'Super-Dog' books and that the author of the books, Dawn O'Day, is one of her new neighbors.

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Seventeen-year-old Slug goes to live with her mother who abandoned her as a baby, and together they care for an elderly, terminally-ill artist.

Hardcover:

9780374339630 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1985, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A dramatic encounter between three generations of women occurs when Slug October goes to live with the mother that abandoned her seventeen years earlier

Paperback:

9780374439736 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1992), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A dramatic encounter between three generations of women occurs when Slug October goes to live with the mother that abandoned her seventeen years earlier

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Jenny is apprehensive, to say the least, about spending an evening with her old great-aunt Abby, but Abby takes her to the attic where trunkfuls of delightful discoveries make Jenny realize how great-aunts got their name.

School and Library:

9780027777857 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Jenny's apprehension about spending an afternoon with her two elderly great aunts is forgotten when one of the aunts takes her into the old attic.

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During an eventful year of heartbreak and difficult decisions, a talented high-school sophomore gains insight into human emotions and her feelings about her mongoloid brother

Paperback:

9780374483166 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, April 1, 1989), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Dorrie must learn to deal with her feelings of frustration, anger, and resentment as her life seems constantly affected by the fact that her younger brother has Down's syndrome.
9780440996927 | Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1978, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Teenaged Dorrie loves Fredlet, her 11-year old brother who is mentally retarded, but finds herself growing increasingly resentful of his demands and the parental attention he receives.

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Ashamed of the leg brace she must wear, Tanner McClean, a sixth grader, makes up stories about her athletic accomplishments when she writes to her pen pal

Paperback:

9780374460327 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1987, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

Library:

9780531014745 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1978, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

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While living on Assateague Island with her aunt and an orphan named Faith Wilkinson, Sarey's pent-up emotions lash out destructively and she is forced to face her fear of the ocean

Hardcover:

9780374323424 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Sarey resents a new family member, Faith, blaming her for her father's death which occurred when he saved Faith from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast.

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The son of contemporary street performers, twelve-year-old Drew Wakeman has mixed feelings about his family's unusual profession until he is taken back to Elizabethan London, where he meets a Renaissance street musician

Hardcover:

9780374340612 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Drew, a member of a band of street performers in Baltimore, finds himself slipping back in time to sixteenth-century England, where he acquires the strength to deal with his unusual life style.

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Twelve-year-old Henley, a child old beyond her years, feels responsible for her mother, Patti, who can never seem to settle down

Hardcover:

9780374328313 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1982, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Henley dreams of finding with her Aunt Mercy the sense of home and belonging she has missed in her life of wandering with her restless mother Patti.

Product Description: A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

Paperback:

9780440971191 | Dell Pub Co, February 1, 1980, cover price $1.75 | About this edition: A physically handicapped girl uses her letters to a pen pal as an outlet for daydreams about her family and herself.

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During an eventful year of heartbreak and difficult decisions, a talented high-school sophomore gains insight into human emotions and her feelings about her mongoloid brother

Library:

9780531012093 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1976, cover price $7.90 | About this edition: Dorrie must learn to deal with her feelings of frustration, anger, and resentment as her life seems constantly affected by the fact that her younger brother has Down's syndrome.

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