The Ghosts of Departure Point -- by Eve Bunting (Author) (Book - Child)
"After a car plunges over a dangerous cliff, killing its four teenage occupants, one of the four returns as a ghost, tormented by guilt and wishing somehow to prevent another tragedy." From Card...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Dragonwings -- by Laurence Yep (Author) (Book - Child)
"The story begins as eight-year-old Moon Shadow Lee journeys across the Pacific to join his proud and clever father at the family-owned laundry in San Francisco. The boy recounts their problems with...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Smith -- by Leon Garfield (Author) (Book - Child)
"This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known onnly as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder....
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon -- by Barbara Brenner (Author) (Book - Child)
"Audubon's young apprentice describes the experiences he shared with his master during thir eighteen month trip down the Mississippi studying and drawing the birds they found along the way." From...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Do You Stutter: A Guide for Teens -- by William Perkins, Jane Fraser (Authors) (Book - Child)
"To and for the teen who stutters. Written by seven leading speech pathologists who give practical advice to teens on coping with and overcoming their problem." [--from amazon.com]
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Age groups: Adolescence (13-21)
Living with Stuttering -- by Kenneth St.Louis (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
"This book is for and about people who stutter as well as those who seek to understand and help them. It puts a human face on a problem that has afflicted untold millions of people through the ages....
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
The Call of the Wild -- by Jack London (Author) (Book - Child)
"Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle -- by Hugh Lofting (Author) (Book - Child)
"The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness." ...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Drawing From Nature -- by Jim Arnosky (Author) (Book - Child)
"These expanded editions now have color photographs that tie with in with the PBS series Drawing from Nature." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Five Children and It -- by E. Nesbit (Author) (Book - Child)
"When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)