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Mr. Terupt volume 1
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Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
2) Reverie
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Kane Montgomery was found half-dead in the river. He has no memory of what happened, and why his life seems so different now. The entire world feels off, reality itself seems different. Three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what's going on. As unimaginable worlds materialize out of nowhere-- the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with...
5) The Moffats
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Moffats volume 1
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Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
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"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
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Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes, and doesn't mind not having electricity or running water. When her parents divorce, Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs to live with a grandmother they have never met. It is noisy, and crowded, and there is no real nature. Her only hope is a secret pact that she made with her father: If she can...
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2015.
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289 pages ; 22 cm.
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As Katie's father and Drew's mother vie for the Presidency, the sixteen-year-olds start--and end--a romance, but the press finds out, both candidates' poll numbers rise, and the two are asked to flaunt their former relationship.
12) Secrets so deep
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2022.
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382 pages ; 22 cm
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Returning to Whisper Cove to attend theater camp and solve the mystery surrounding her mother's death 12 years earlier, 17-year-old Avril soon discovers the truth is ready to be revealed, but at a high price.
Twelve years ago Avril's mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline. Local legend claims that the women in the waves-- ghosts from old whaling stories-- called her mother into the ocean with their whispering....
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2022.
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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"Alcanzar la mayor̕a de edad siendo una chica gorda y morena en un suburbio blanco de Connecticut es dif̕cil. M̀s a͠n cuando toda tu vida parece estar en llamas. Charlie Vega es muchas cosas: Inteligente. Divertida. Art̕stica. Ambiciosa. Gorda. La gente a veces tiene problemas con esto ͠ltimo, especialmente su madre. Charlie quiere tener una buena relaci̤n con su cuerpo, pero es dif̕cil. Y no ayuda el hecho de que su madre le deje batidos...
15) For the duration
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c2009
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99 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortunately, Tomie still has school, his family, and the things he's good at to carry him through.
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Moffats volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
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234 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
17) Here we all are
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Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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