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1) Skylark
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English
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
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English
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2023-2024 4th/5th Grade Battle of Books
Books about Nature (Youth)
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
RPS Children's Books about Homeschooling
Books about Nature (Youth)
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
RPS Children's Books about Homeschooling
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When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
3) Ash
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English
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
4) Winter
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English
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Cinder and her allies are joined in the plot to overthrow Queen Levana by the queen's stepdaughter, Winter, who has long been defying her evil stepmother's wishes by harboring feelings for her personal guard whom she is forbidden from marrying.
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Flatiron Books
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English
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"At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know...
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[2016]
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English
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
Filipino Heritage Month 2022 (October - Kids)
If You Like...Ramona
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
Filipino Heritage Month 2022 (October - Kids)
If You Like...Ramona
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Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
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Cinders and Sparks volume 1
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English
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Cinders isn't supposed to know how to do magic. Her dog, Sparks, isn't supposed to talk. And they're definitely not supposed to go to the fancy palace ball. But with a fairy godmother named Brian, do we really think that's going to stop them?
10) The Hanging Hill
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.
12) The crossroads
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the Arctic--the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
16) The garden troll
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Series
Publisher
Saddleback Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Jenny does not like her new stepmother. She doesn't like their new house either. And she's always getting into trouble. She hates it when her stepmom bosses her around. So she makes a wish to the garden troll in the back garden. She wants her stepmom to get in trouble too. Soon there are a lot of mishaps. A freezer is turned off. The trash cans get dumped in the front yard. Is it the troll's doing? How can Jenny take back her wish before something...
17) Days of the dead
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Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only happen...
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