Christina Moore
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Left alone by her Indian tribe when they decide to sail to the east, Karana, a young Indian girl, lives on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, where she spends eighteen years, surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance. Year after year she waits for the ship to return but it never does. Finally she realizes she must make a fateful choice: follow her people on her own or remain alone fo rthe rest of her life....
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In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
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Junie B. Jones series volume 2
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Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
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Young wizards volume 1
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Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
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Nina Tanleven volume 2
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Nina and her friend Chris jump at the chance to go with Nina's architect father to live in an old inn he's restoring. The first night, they see a ghost that was believed to have hid his fortune in jewels on the property before he died. It's up to Nina and Chris to find it before someone else does.
8) Frogs
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Growing from tiny tadpoles to massive master jumpers, frogs and their life cycles are fascinating. Growing from tiny tadpoles to massive master jumpers, frogs and their life cycles are fascinating. How far can frogs jump? Why do their eggs look slimy? Answer these questions and many more in this illustrated introduction to amphibians. With her signature bright, well-labeled diagrams and simple text, Gail Gibbons introduces the habitat and life cycles...
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Young wizards volume 3
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When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
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Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she...
11) Julie
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
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When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
12) Tuck triumphant
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Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
13) Spirit seeker
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To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
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Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own. Fearless but inexperienced...
18) Shiva's fire
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From her childhood, Parvati is known in her village for the extraordinary events that seem to spring from her dancing feet, and which set her and her family apart. One day a great guru, a master of Indian classical dance, comes to see Parvati. He invites her to study with him, and she commits herself to a rigorous program of dance, study, and devotion. Then she meets a gentle-eyed boy who turns her life upside down, and she learns that destiny...