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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah  Publisher Comments A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots". Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair....
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Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: A Memoir of My Fifth-Grade Year
by Esme Raji Codell Publisher Comments Like every Chicago fifth grader, Codell spends her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes that Codell has compiled for...
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Up Close: Elvis Presley (Up Close)
by Wilborn Hampton Publisher Comments For fans of the king, the newest installment to the Up Close biography series! Elvis Presley made a sound so different it ushered in a new kind of music: rock and roll. He was able to combine gospel, honky-tonk, country and rhythm and blues to create a...
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We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
by Sampson Davis Publisher Comments This "New York Times" bestseller is the dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths--Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt--whose strong friendship gave them the strength to continue their education and become doctors. Photos....
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The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life
by Sid Fleischman Publisher Comments The man with the spats rolled up his sleeves and proceeded to pluck a polished red billiard ball out of thin air. Presto It vanished. Abracadabra It reappeared. It turned white. it blushed red again. VoiIa Suddenly there were four billiard balls between...
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Aloha Crossing
by Pamela Bauer Mueller Synopsis A year has passed since puppy raiser Diego handed Aloha's harness over to her blind partner Kimberly Louise. Now Diego is traveling to Georgia to visit his beloved friend again!...
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipovic Publisher Comments An international bestseller, the extraordinary diary that awakened the world's conscience is now updated with a new Introduction by the author. "The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo's] recent history."--"USA Today."...
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Jack Black (Today's Superstars: Entertainment)
by Susan Mitchell Publisher Comments - The people kids want to read about--selected by a survey of 1,000 kids - Engaging text written at a level accessible to struggling readers - A time line of career and personal milestones - Fact files that include fun, little-known facts about the star -...
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Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
by Zlata Filipovic Publisher Comments From the author of the international bestseller "Zlata's Diary" comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young people, spanning from World War I to the war in Iraq that continues today....
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Reaching for the Moon
by Buzz Aldrin Publisher Comments I walked on the moon. This is my journey. But it didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 1, 1969. It began the day I was born. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of...
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Ray Charles: Musician (Black Americans of Achievement)
by Janet Hubbard-brown Publisher Comments Each title features: - In Their Own Words boxes offering selected quotations from the subject - Did You Know? boxes that highlight fascinating facts about each person - A chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a listing of related Web sites - A...
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Chris Rock (Today's Superstars: Entertainment)
by Jaqueline Laks Gorman Publisher Comments - The people kids want to read about--selected by a survey of 1,000 kids - Engaging text written at a level accessible to struggling readers - A time line of career and personal milestones - Fact files that include fun, little-known facts about the star -...
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Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World
by Cynthia Chin-lee Synopsis This companion to the best-selling Amelia to Zora features twenty-six amazing men. Learn what inspired each man to change the world around him. Detailed collages draw from various events in the men's lives....
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Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager (Book Three of the Dominions of Irth)
by Beatrice Sparks Publisher Comments From the editor of "Go Ask Alice" comes this gripping narrative about a pregnant teenager who chronicles her experience in her diary, revealing her deepest feelings....
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The Silent Witness: A True Story of the Civil War
by Robin Friedman Publisher Comments At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean's family home in Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and her family and her favorite rag doll move south to...
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Charles Darwin (DK Biography)
by David C. King Publisher Comments With more than 100 full-color photographs and illustrations and detailed sidebars, these two new entries in DK's acclaimed Biography series celebrate two pioneers who changed how the world is viewed: scientist Charles Darwin and aviatrix Amelia Earhart....
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Who Was Queen Elizabeth? (Who Was...?)
by June Eding Publisher Comments Our bestselling series is fit for a queen! The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A...
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Gandhi (DK Biography)
by Amy Pastan Publisher Comments Perfect for book reports or summer reading, DK's acclaimed Biography series tackles two of history's most inspiring human rights figures: Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela....
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady (Dear America)
by Ellen Emerson White Publisher Comments Written from the point of view of a young passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, this title combines an award-winning series with the "disaster of the century"....
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Rascal
by Sterling North Publisher Comments Who could resist living for a with a raccoon who is just year about your best friend? In this delightful memoir, Sterling North recalls his year with Rascal -- a very mischievous and resourceful raccoon. Sterling, a boy of 11, watches in amazement as...
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