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Judy Moody by Megan McDonald copyright 2000

“My new pet’s not an animal, Mr. Todd,” Judy said. “And it doesn’t eat homework. Just bugs and raw hamburger.”…

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The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg copyright 1996

“Something in Sillington House gave me permission to do things I had never done before. Never even thought of doing….

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Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck, copyright 2006

“She drove me back home through the gloaming. Halfway to the Hazelrigg Settlement she set her brakes and stared into…

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd copyright 2002

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it…

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The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman copyright 2006

“I wanted to ask some questions . . . and I was punished for the sin of intellectual curiosity,” Sophie…

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each little bird that sings by Deborah Wiles copyright 2006

Deborah Wiles’s latest book, each little bird that sings, explores the geography of life in all its “messy glory:” death,…

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The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse copyright 1996

“Humans see things only the human way. Humans think they are the best, that they know the only right way.”…

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The Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison

Wisdomosity. A psychotic cat. A Snogging Scale (snogging is kissing, for you lot that aren’t up to speed on British…

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The Rain Came Down by David Shannon copyright 2000

Need a picture book to show cause and effect (and you’re sick and tired of various animals being given carbohydrates…

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The Great American Mousical by Julie Andrews Edwards & Emma Walton Hamilton copyright 2006

I broke my “no celebrity books” rule to check out The Great American Mousical recommended to me by my friend…

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