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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his...
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Fifteen-year-old Bernie Karp inadvertently thaws out the frozen body of a nineteenth-century rabbi who had been encased in ice for over one hundred years and protected by Bernie's family, and, while the rabbi attempts to enjoy life in 1999, Bernie sets out on his own journey to understand his heritage.
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1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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In 1857, Jaffy Brown, an eight-year-old street urchin in London's East End, is saved from a tiger attack by Mr. Jamrach, the tiger's owner, who takes Jaffy under his wing and puts him to work caring for the animals in his exotic menagerie, and as the years progress, Jaffy's friendship with the other handler, Tim, leads to a grand adventure that will change both their lives forever.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built aworld of is own.
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