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Children's Books Ages 9 up
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books suitable for children aged 9 years +.
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See You at Harry's
by Jo Knowles
Hardcover: 8 May 2012
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| Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges - until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal. |
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A Greyhound of a Girl
by Roddy Doyle
Hardcover: 1 May 2012
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| Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out. Perfect for thoughtful middle-graders and young teen girls. |
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Out of My Mind
by Sharon M. Draper
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 May 2012
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| Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but no one knows it, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write. Melody's story is one full of heartache and hope. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you'll never, ever forget. |
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Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
Hardcover: 14 Feb 2012
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| Wonder is a spare, warm, uplifting story that will have readers laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next. |
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Tall Story
by Candy Gourlay
Hardcover: Feb 2011
Paperback: 14 Feb 2012
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| In a novel packed with quirkiness and humor, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures. |
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Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Hardcover: Oct 2010
Paperback: 27 Dec 2011
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| Powerful in its simplicity and rich in historical detail, Clare Vanderpool's debut is a gripping story of loss and redemption. |
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Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Hardcover: 13 Sep 2011
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| A sly, sharp-edged narrative about a small western Pennsylvania town and a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air. |
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The Unforgotten Coat
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Hardcover: 13 Sep 2011
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| Often laugh-out-loud funny, this moving and simply told novella of two Mongolian brothers learning to fit in to a British school tugs at the heart - a unique story of immigration both fierce in its telling and magical in its characters. |
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