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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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Paperboy
by Vince Vawter
Hardcover: 14 May 2013
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| For fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, The King's Speech, and The Help. A boy who stutters comes-of-age in the segregated South, during the summer that changes his life. |
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Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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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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Zebra Forest
by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| In an extraordinary debut novel, an escaped fugitive upends everything two siblings think they know about their family, their past, and themselves. |
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Navigating Early
by Clare Vanderpool
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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| New York Times Best Seller Navigating Early by Claire Vanderpool, Newbery Medalist for Moon Over Manifest, is an odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters. |
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Hokey Pokey
by Jerry Spinelli
Hardcover: 8 Jan 2013
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| Master storyteller Jerry Spinelli has written a dizzingly inventive fable of growing up and letting go, of leaving childhood and its imagination play behind for the more dazzling adventures of adolescence, and of learning to accept not only the sunny part of day, but the unwelcome arrival of night, as well. |
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Fly Trap
by Frances Hardinge
Hardcover: May 2011
Paperback: 23 Oct 2012
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| In the eagerly awaited sequel to Fly by Night, acclaimed storyteller Frances Hardinge returns to a vivid world rich with humor, danger, and discovery. |
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The Mostly True Story of Jack
by Kelly Barnhill
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his crazy aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the people of Hazelwood have been waiting for him for a long time... |
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Splendors and Glooms
by Laura A. Schlitz
Hardcover: 28 Aug 2012
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| Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz's Victorian brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller -- an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud. |
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