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Falling in
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
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How I Learned to Build a Story
The problem, I decided early on, was that I had no talent for writing fiction, despite the fact that I'd always been a daydreamer of epic proportions, a weaver of elaborate fantasies as I stared out the bus window on the way to school or stood in the cafeteria line to pay for my lunch. [...]I was always the star of my story, and, usually, my lot in life was tragic. [...]he and Linda liked me so much that they adopted me and I became a member of Wings, traveling the world and having adventures. Luckily, there are lots of books on the topic of how to write a story, from E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel to Martha Alderson's The Plot Whisperer, and lots of tried-and-true methods for devising a plot.
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The kind of friends we used to be
Twelve-year-olds Kate and Marylin, friends since preschool, draw further apart as Marylin becomes involved in student government and cheerleading, while Kate wants to play guitar and write songs, and both develop unlikely friendships with other girls and boys.
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Ten miles past normal
Because living with \"modern-hippy\" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
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Sam the Man & the chicken plan
When seven-year-old Sam Graham, eager for some spending money, volunteers to look after a neighbor's chickens, the experience inspires him to get his own chicken--a special bird named Helga.
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Chicken Boy
*DOWELL, Frances O'Roark. Chicken Bov. 201p. CIP. S & S/Atheneum. July 2005. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-689-85816-7. LC 2004010928.
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Anybody shining
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
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Trouble the water
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who's black, and Wendell, who's white, are brought together by an old dog that's clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
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