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Shiloh quartet volume 3
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Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
3) Mockingbird
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Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Shiloh quartet volume 4
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"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh, are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--Provided by publisher.
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Stink Moody volume 4
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Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to relinquish his favorite, Astro.
10) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 3
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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Boxcar children volume 63
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At the request of their distant relative Althea, the Boxcar Children arrive at her old Virginia mansion and investigate the mysterious incidents happening there.
13) Meet the Mothman
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Gabe and the other monster hunters arrive in a wildlife management area in West Virginia to investigate reports of a monster called the Mothman--but mostly what they see are owls, until something much larger attacks them in the night.
14) Cecil in space
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Seventeen-year-old Cecil tries to help his best friend Isaac, who is under suspicion of having vandalized the welcome sign at the edge of their small Virginia town, and pursues his interest in Isaac's sister Isabel.
15) Dog gone
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Twelve-year-old Dill refuses to deal with the recent death of her mother until her dog starts running with a pack that is suspected of killing livestock on neighboring farms, and Dill's beloved grandfather becomes so sick that he needs to go the hospital just like her mother did.
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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'...
17) Shiloh season
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When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
18) Way Down Deep
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In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
20) Bone's gift
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Ghosts of ordinary objects volume 1
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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...