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Abby Takes A Stand - McKissack, Pat
Grandma Gee shares with her grandchildren her experiences in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960, when she passed out flyers while her cousins and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

Airball : My Life In Briefs - Harkrader, Lisa
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach’s ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.

Chicken Boy - Dowell, Frances O’Roark
Since the death of his mother, Tobin’s family and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.

Defiance - Hobbs, Valerie
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

The Ghost’s Grave - Kehret, Peg
Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

The Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates Galore - Fleischman, Sid
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the U.S. and Mexico.

The Sisters Grimm. Book One, Fairy-tale Detectives - Buckley, Michael
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be de ad.

The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse - Couloumbis, Audrey
After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.

Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist - Greene, Stephanie
Thi rd grade best friends Owen and Joseph struggle to come up with a great science fair project that they will both enjoy doing, then something goes wrong and they have to change their plans two days before the fair.

Stumptown Kid - Gorman, Carol
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meaning of both racism and heroism when he befriends Luther Peale, a young man who once played for the old Negro Baseball League.

Whittington - Armstrong, Alan W.
Whittingto n, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington’s famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor’s story.