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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls'...
3) Bone's gift
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Ghosts of ordinary objects volume 1
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English
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"Bone is at the age when people in her mother's family often show signs of a gift, and lately strange things have been happening. When she touches certain objects, images wash over her. Pain is hidden in a rock at the bottom of New River. Whole stories are buried in the world around Bone. Is this her Gift? If so, Bone doesn't want it. And her Daddy is no help; he refuses to tolerate any discussion of the Gifts. The Bone finds an anonymous note: THE...
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Jack and his family are on a trip to Washington, D.C., and when they visit Arlington National Cemetery Jack watches the soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns march twenty-one steps in each direction--and suddenly gains a new understanding and respect for those who serve the United States. Includes information about the Tomb and the soldiers who guard it.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.