Based on a True Story
by Linda Sue Park

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Published Aug 2017
Winner of the 2016 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.
by Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Published Jan 2017
An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story.
by Kenneth Bonert
Published Sep 2014
A thrilling ride through the life of one fumbling young hero, The Lion Seeker is a glorious reinvention of the classic family and coming-of-age sagas.
by Deborah Levy
Published Oct 2012
A subversively brilliant study of love, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Published Jan 2008
An extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to ...
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