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Ellray Jakes is not a chicken!
Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
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Gee whiz
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
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Picture us in the light
Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
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It All Comes Down to This by Karen English (review)
[...]twelve-year-old Sophie is relatively safe in her upper-middle class neighborhood, guarded by light skin and her family's Black bourgeoisie status.Tangled up in the messiness of everyday life and the ways in which it intersects with the major social issues of the time, this book will capture readers at every point, bringing a nuanced understanding to the history of American civil rights that is sometimes flattened in the classroom curriculum.
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EllRay Jakes is a rock star!
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to \"borrow\" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.
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The Incident on the Bridge by Laura McNeal (review)
The multi-stranded narrative leaves the reader guessing while introducing a succession of a dozen or so characters connected to Thisbe’s disappearance: the policewoman called to investigate an abandoned car on the bridge; Thisbe’s mom, who believes she might have jumped; her sister, Ted, who is sure she didn’t; and Jerome, the boy Thisbe should have been with instead of Clay.Beyond the pieces coming together, however, there is little thematic substance or character development; instead, characters are typed, from Clay’s sex-as-conquest approach to dating to Thisbe’s smart-girl-succumbs-to-brazen-flattery emotional missteps.
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Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
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