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3) The lie tree
Author
Language
English
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Description
Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. The girl realizes that she is good at lying...
6) I am drums
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
Language
English
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Description
No girls allowed at the Olympic Games! That's the rule when the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells Jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she herself--and Jack--into Olympic-size trouble?
12) Forward pass
Author
Language
English
Description
To improve his struggling football team's chances of winning, Coach Gardner brings in a new wide receiver, Jill Winston.
13) A long way to go
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's suffrage movement that rages during World War I.
14) Bicycle madness
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, Lillie gains friendship and help with a spelling bee from a neighbor, Frances Willard, who braves criticism to speak about women's rights and learn to ride a bicycle. Includes historical notes.
15) Ogilvy
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Ogilvy moves to a new town, he discovers that bunnies who wear dresses play ball and knit socks while bunnies in sweaters make art and climb rocks, and Ogilvy must figure out a way to do it all.
16) Hill Hawk Hattie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on an adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
18) Rising tide
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In 1908, Kate and Ellen set up shop and begin to sell handmade Irish linens to a select San Francisco clientele.
20) Evvy's Civil War
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.