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Classroom Set: Grades 5-6
We have a large collection of classroom sets each including twelve copies of a book that can be used in reading groups or book discussions. To check out a set, please fill out the request form.
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Among the Hidden
1998 by Margaret Peterson HaddixIn a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Crush : The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love
2012 by Gary PaulsenAfraid to actually ask Tina Zabinski for a date, eighth-grader Kevin spends most of his time theorizing about love and romance and observing and analyzing male/female interaction.
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A Diamond In the Desert
2012 by Kathryn FitzmauriceAfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
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The Emerald Atlas
2011 by John StephensKate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
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Flying Solo
1998 by Ralph J FletcherRachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
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The Graveyard Book
2008 by Neil GaimanNobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Hoot
2002 by Carl HiaasenRoy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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Inside Out & Back Again
2011 by Thanhha LaiThrough a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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The Lions of Little Rock
2012 by Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims), 1974-In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Milo : Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
2010 by Alan SilberbergIn love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
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Three Times Lucky
2012 by Sheila TurnageWashed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Wild Wings
2011 by Gill LewisCallum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
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Wonder
2012 by R. J. PalacioTen-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Yes! We Are Latinos : poems and prose about the Latino experience
2013 by Alma Flor AdaA collection of stories about young Latino's immigrant experiences in the United States.
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