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Ramona Quimby is seven and a half - "right now", as she likes to say. With her rapid growing come many changes, including new pajamas so cozy that Ramona wears them under her clothes to school. But even though Ramona's getting bigger, she sometimes feels left out of the more grown-up relationship between her older sister, Beezus, and their busy working mom. Mrs. Quimby tells friends she "couldn't get along without Beezus", but does this mean she doesn't...
5) Dusssie
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At age thirteen Dusie makes the horrifying discovery that she, like her New York artist mother, is a Gorgon--a Greek mythological monster sprouting snakes from her head and capable of turning humans into stone with one angry look.
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Thirteen-year-old tomboy, Megan McCaffery is just beginning to enjoy growing up when her mother is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down, her hurt and anger coming between Megan and everyone she cares about, until she realizes what her real priorities are.
11) Shyanna's song
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Ever since her father disappeared Shyanna's home has been a sad place, but if the twelve-year old mermaid can conquer her stage fright before the Melody Pageant, she hopes to win the contest and bring song back to her mother's life.
12) Tune it out
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Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
14) Almost paradise
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When twelve-year-old Ruby's mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.
15) Show way
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The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 2
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Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," while dealing with a mean, troublemaking classmate.
17) Set me free
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Tomorrow girls volume 4
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After Louisa, Evelyn, and Rosie rescue Maddie from the Alliance and discover that Maddie's mother is the leader of the Resistance, the girls embark on a journey to find the Resistance headquarters despite the remaining threat of the Alliance and the disappearance of members of their group in rubble-strewn Chicago.
18) Starfish
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 5
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Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned.