You Can't Eat Peanuts in Church and Other Little-Known Laws -- by Barbara Seuling (Author) (Book - Child)
"A cartoon joke book presenting some unusual laws in effect at one time or another in the United States." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Unmaking of Rabbit -- by Constance Greene (Author) (Book - Child)
"A lonely eleven-year-old boy living with his grandmother tries to come to terms with the facts of his life as he waits in vain for his divorcd mother to take him to live with her." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Bundle of Sticks -- by Pat McCord (Author) (Book - Child)
"Ben Tyler hates to fight and Boyd Bradshaw knows it. When Boyd makes Ben eat mud at the bus stop, Ben's father decides that it's time for him to learn to defend himself. The thought of learning to...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Nobody's Baby Now -- by Carol Benjamin (Author) (Book - Child)
"Fifteen-year-old Olivia, unhappy because she is overweight and because she must care for her invalid grandmother after school every day, at first denies, then struggles to come to terms with both...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast -- by Robin McKinley (Author) (Book - Child)
"Contrary to the name, 16-year-old Beauty is not the prettiest girl in her family. But she is the cleverest, bravest, and most honorable. When her father makes a promise with a beast who lives in an...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Wizard of Earthsea -- by Ursula Le Guin (Author) (Book - Child)
"Often compared to Tolkien's Middle earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quick at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
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)
A Day No Pigs Would Die -- by Robert Peck (Author) (Book - Child)
"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age." From Product Description
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Slave Dancer -- by Paula Fox (Author) (Book - Child)
"Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is own aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife so that captured slaves will 'dance,' to keep their muscles strong and their...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Three Who Dared -- by Tim Cohen (Author) (Book - Child)
"Describes the activities of three young men who risked their lives to participate in the Freedom Marches and Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960's." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)