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by Jerry Spinelli
Published Apr 2014
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The Second Life of Abigail Walker
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsIs it possible to start afresh when you're thoroughly weighted down?
by L.S. Matthews
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsWhen the political situation becomes too grave, a family of foreign aid workers makes a perilous journey to the border of the war-torn nation that they've called home. Fish is a story that will teach those who doubt that, when hope is almost extinguished, miracles can happen. 10 years +.
by Lois Lowry
Published Feb 1998
Read ReviewsWinner of the 1990 Newbery Medal. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account of the evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark to save them from being detained and then sent to the death camps.
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