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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When her father goes away, eleven-year-old California 'Callie' Poppy winds up with her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica and their ancestor - the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine, now a hypersensitive ghost." --
43) The best story
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a contest at the local library offers a prize for the best story, a girl tries to write one using her family's suggestions, but her story does not seem right until she listens to her heart.
45) Idea jar
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?" --
47) Queen for a day
Author
Series
Publisher
Advance Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Muffy is crowned Elwood City's "queen," Arthur insists that she treat all her friends royally.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who has lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal correspondence, leading to a pivotal decision that could impact the course of the war and his relationship with Iris."--
49) Straydog
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Festival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Paddington has come to love his new home with the Browns in London. But the city's charms were first introduced to him by his aunt Lucy back in Peru. This 8x8 storybook, filled with full-color images from the film, is a letter from Paddington to his aunt, recounting the many adventures, friends and magic he's found in his new home"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Front Street/Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three years after the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Maddie finds a note attached to a popped balloon, leading to a correspondence with a mysterious fourteen-year-old girl who helps Maddie understand that life must go on.
58) Ship of dolls
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
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