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Hardcover:
9780823419609 | Holiday House, August 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China; young Ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood.
Paperback:
9781504028028 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, November 10, 2015), cover price $12.99
Paperback:
9781504022064, titled "Miriam's Well" | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, September 8, 2015, cover price $12.99
9780590449380, titled "Miriam's Well" | Reprint edition (Point, February 1, 1995), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: When Miriam develops bone cancer, she finds herself the focus of a battle between the medical and legal establishments and the small Christian sect to which she and her family belong
School and Library:
9780590449373, titled "Miriam's Well" | Scholastic, March 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When her family's strict religious sect refuses to allow her medical treatment, cancer-stricken Miriam is made a ward of the state and becomes the center of a fierce legal battle between her church and the state
Prebinding:
9780785756262, titled "Miriam's Well" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $10.65 | About this edition: A terminally ill teenager is forced to choose between her religion and her life Adam doesnât think much of it when Miriam faints in class.
Hardcover:
9780395365632 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1984, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A sixteen-year-old living in a group home in San Francisco examines her relationship with the two most important men in her life, one, her mother's pimp, the other, an elderly Chinese gentleman lying ill in a hospital.
Paperback:
9781504022101 | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, September 8, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: A spunky young girl forms an unlikely friendship with a dying Chinese man while living in a group home For Greta, having light and carefree Hackey hanging around her mom is a lot more fun than having an ordinary dad.
9780449701522 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, January 1, 1987), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Hiding out from her mother's pimp, Hackey, in a shelter for teenage girls, sixteen-year-old Greta gains new understanding of herself and her mother through her friendship with a Chinese-American boy and his strict, aged grandfather
Hardcover:
9780395427149 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Spending a summer helping her mother run a truckstop diner, fourteen-year-old Dovi becomes involved in a custody battle between divorced parents who both want to hold on to their young son.
Paperback:
9781504022125 | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, September 8, 2015, cover price $10.99
9780449703069 | Reprint edition (Juniper, December 1, 1988), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Spending a summer helping her mother run a truckstop diner, fourteen-year-old Dovi becomes involved in a custody battle between divorced parents who both want to hold on to their young son.
Paperback:
9781504022088 | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, September 8, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: An angry teenager is sucked into a gang of neo-Nazis Dan shows up on his first day at a new school with long blond hair, John Lennon glasses, and a shy grin that makes every girl in the hallway swoon.
9780590477000 | Point, May 1, 1996, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Laurel is shocked by the sudden transformation of her best friend and boyfriend, Dan, a withdrawn young man who secretly joins a band of neo-Nazi skinheads and becomes involved in their violent racial demonstrations
School and Library:
9780590476997 | Scholastic, October 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Laurel's boyfriend Dan becomes a neo-Nazi skinhead and gets the attention and respect he has been denied all his life, especially when he becomes involved in a First Amendment battle
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9780606098649 | Demco Media, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.10 | About this edition: Laurel is shocked by the sudden transformation of her best friend and boyfriend, Dan, a withdrawn young man who secretly joins a band of neo-Nazi skinheads and becomes involved in their violent racial demonstrations
Prebinding:
9780785789192 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.40 | About this edition: Laurel is shocked by the sudden transformation of her best friend and boyfriend, Dan, a withdrawn young man who secretly joins a band of neo-Nazi skinheads and becomes involved in their violent racial demonstrations
Paperback:
9780545617864 | Scholastic, June 24, 2014, cover price $6.99
Prebinding:
9780606358101 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, June 24, 2014), cover price $17.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
Hardcover:
9780545426237 | Point, May 28, 2013, cover price $17.99
Paperback:
9780865411418, titled "Strike!: Mother Jones & the Colorado Coal Field War" | Filter Pr Llc, September 1, 2012, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When the bloodiest labor dispute in U.
Hardcover:
9780765313669 | Starscape, September 2, 2008, cover price $17.95
Paperback:
9780765352293 | Reprint edition (Starscape, September 29, 2009), cover price $5.99
Miscellaneous:
9781429940276 | 1 edition (Starscape, April 1, 2010), cover price $5.99
Paperback:
9780689824357 | Aladdin Paperbacks, December 1, 1998, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
School and Library:
9780027778830 | Atheneum, December 1, 1994, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Reinforced:
9780606159210 | Demco Media, March 30, 2006, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Prebinding:
9780613121545 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Product Description: My Side of the Story is completely unique approach to historical fiction. Read the story of one youngster's life in turbulent times, then flip the book and find out first hand how another child reacts to the same events - with very different feelings and results! 12 year old Elias is one of the first people to arrive in Jamestown as the English colonists land on America's east coast...read more
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9780606342360 | Demco Media, November 1, 2005, cover price $15.60 | About this edition: My Side of the Story is completely unique approach to historical fiction.
Prebinding:
9781417677436 | Turtleback Books, June 2, 2005, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: Elias,a surgeon's apprentice in Jamestown, Virginia, finds a friend in Sacahocan, a Native American who shares tips on healing with him, but their friendship is shaken by the animosity between their two peoples.
Paperback:
9780753457962 | Kingfisher, June 2, 2005, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Elias,a surgeon's apprentice in Jamestown, Virginia, finds a friend in Sacahocan, a Native American who shares tips on healing with him, but their friendship is shaken by the animosity between their two peoples.
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
Prebinding:
9780613451079 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $14.65 | About this edition: Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
Paperback:
9780689835797 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, January 1, 2002), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
School and Library:
9780689832666 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
Reinforced:
9780606240659 | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
Hardcover:
9781571686770 | Eakin Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One Texas summer, eleven-year-old Jonathan Wigget meets an aging con artist, becomes a hometown hero, and tries to figure out who is killing the town's cats.
Paperback:
9781571686084 | 1 edition (Eakin Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: One Texas summer, eleven-year-old Jonathan Wigget meets an aging con artist, becomes a hometown hero, and tries to figure out who is killing the town's cats.
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9780606297783, titled "Moxie Kid" | Demco Media, January 1, 2002, cover price $20.10 | About this edition: One Texas summer, eleven-year-old Jonathan Wigget meets an aging con artist, becomes a hometown hero, and tries to figure out who is killing the town's cats.
Hardcover:
9781571683939 | Eakin Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1901, twelve-year-old Jake and his sister travel from Lithuania to Texas and find a totally different world, including suffragettes, swindlers, a mysterious youth with strange powers, and a compassionate rabbi.
Hardcover:
9780670737246 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Six short stories, including 'Frail Bridge' and 'Inscriptions in Stone,' portray the Jew and the adolescent as an outsider in a variety of situations and settings
Paperback:
9780449700709 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1983), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Six short stories, including 'Frail Bridge' and 'Inscriptions in Stone,' portray the Jew and the adolescent as an outsider in a variety of situations and settings
Hardcover:
9780670758159 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Two teenagers, an unwed father and his unconventional neighbor, vie for the affection of his baby.
Paperback:
9780449700044 | Fawcett Books, March 1, 1981, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Two teenagers, an unwed father and his unconventional neighbor, vie for the affection of his baby.
Paperback:
9780440902546 | Dell Pub Co, December 1, 1979, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Book by Ruby, Lois
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