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Mr. Terupt ; 2
Language
English
Description
Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.
42) Hamster magic
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Series
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English
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When the Willows move into a new house, Celia, the youngest of four children, traps an enchanted hamster, who reluctantly agrees to grant the children one wish in exchange for his freedom.
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English
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When his family moves from Tucson, Arizona to Massachusetts, fifth-grader Ben has a hard time leaving the desert he loves, but when he finds a kindred spirit in his science teacher and ends up trying to help her with some of her problems, he finally begins to feel at home.
46) New kid
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English
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
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English
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"After moving to Elsewhere, former bully, Astrid, makes plans to reinvent herself. But Elsewhere is different from her home in Queens, and she soon learns Candi rules the town with her power of compulsion. Astrid will have to choose between enjoying the perks of being the Queen B's BFF or standing up to the bully she once was"--
48) Finding Langston
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English
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"Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied." --
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult." --
50) Birdie's bargain
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Birdie's dad is sent back to Iraq, she makes a deal with God to bring him home safely, while dealing with a new school where she finds it hard to make friends especially when she could use one"--
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Language
English
Description
Evelyn Del Rey is Daniela's best friend. They do everything together and even live in twin apartments across the street from each other: Daniela with her mami and hamster, and Evelyn with her mami, papi, and cat. But not after today--not after Evelyn moves away. Until then, the girls play amid the moving boxes until it's time to say goodbye, making promises to keep in touch, because they know that their friendship will always be special. The tenderness...
53) A heart divided
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Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playright, moves from New Jersey to attend high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to remove the school's Confederate flag symbol.
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Mindy Kim ; 1
Language
English
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"Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble." --
57) Magic or not?
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Series
Language
English
Description
When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.
58) Right as Rain
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Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Rain must adjust to a new normal after her brother dies and her family moves to New York City"--
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Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Description
"Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure." --
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English
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
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