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When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Mitch feels isolated at his grandparents' house and can't help hating his father, who walked out on him and his mom two-and-a-half weeks earlier. Spencer's family has decided it's finally time to return to Bird Lake, years after his brother, Matty, drowned there. Both boys arrive at Bird Lake scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to heal.
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Martha didn't know Olive—not really. But when Olive is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and her mother gives Martha a section from Olive's journal, Martha knows they could have been friends. Now Martha and her family are going to Cape Cod for the rest of the summer, and Olive, who had always wanted to see the ocean, haunts Martha's thoughts and dreams. A brilliant, touching coming-of-age story.
A Newbery Honor Book
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Ben was just two years old when he and his uncle, Ian, were last together, so Ben didn't remember him. And no one in Ben's family ever talked about him. Then the letter arrived, changing Ben's life, and changing his family in unexpected ways. And there was the birthday room . . .
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"A story that helps us see our own chances for benefiting from mutual tolerance, creative conflict resolution, and other forms of good will."— The Horn Book
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"Fanny sensed that from the moment she was born she was meant to have a dog. It was as though some unique and independent organ deep inside her, like a tiny heart, couldn't thrive properly without one." This is Fanny's story—a story about wanting and getting and realizing that nothing is simple or easy.
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Spoon needed something special of Gram's—something to remember her by. He wasn't quite sure what the
something was, and he didn't have the time he needed to think, or perhaps he wouldn't have done what he did . . .
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Blaze Werla is having a typical summer. He lives in the country and spends his days alone, wandering
around the hill beside his home. Then the message appears on the side of the hill. And Blaze's summer suddenly takes a turn toward the mysterious ...
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The Vorlob family is making preparations for the new baby, soon to arrive. Adine, age ten, is used to the
routine—she has four sisters already. This time, however, the routine is broken and nothing goes quite as expected. Especially for Adine . . .
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It seemed to ten-year-old Wedge that most of the time nothing made sense anymore. Suddenly he had a brand-new stepfather and a five-year-old stepbrother, Andrew. Wedge does not easily let go of his anger, but the moment does come when things again begin to make sense.
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