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2) Swamp Angel
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English
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Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
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English
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Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
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English
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A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
7) Paperboy
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English
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When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
8) Hummingbird
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English
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When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
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Nancy Paulsen Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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When the city of Zollicoffer, Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize their one hundred seventy-five year old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as a hidden treasure, seem to offer her family the best chance of saving their home.
12) Changing times
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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In 1912, ten-year-old Lucy Gordon, living with her family in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, determines to prove that their Tennessee Walking Horse, Clipper, is worth far more that her father's new Model-T automobile.
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Series
American chillers volume 21
Publisher
AudioCraft
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Eric Carter, Mark Bruder, and Shayleen Mills are three friends in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who sense that all is not right with a toy store that will be opening soon. How does a mysterious doll seem to walk and talk on her own? How does a strange monkey somehow come to life?