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Walker Books
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English
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"Crying ain't going to bring her back," Rob's dad says. So Rob fills a suitcase in his mind with all his forbidden thoughts - the rash on his legs, the bullies at school - and keeps it tight shut. But when he finds a caged tiger deep in the woods, his whole life begins to change. That same day he meets Sistine Bailey, another outsider who's bullied at school. She says they must set the tiger free - and when Rob imagines the tiger rising out of its...
2) Pog
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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After their mother dies, David and Penny move to her family?s old house in the forest. Dad says it?s a fresh start but it feels sad and empty without Mum. And there are noises in the attic ? A small furry creature is living in the roof. There are other creatures too - less friendly ones - that seem to be multiplying. Only with Pog?s help can David and Penny save themselves - and goodness in the world. If they can resist promises from the darkness...
3) Need
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's little wonder, since she's had a fairly rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, her stepfather just died and her mother's almost given up - in fact, she's sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to keep Zara safe'. Zara doesn't think she's in danger; she thinks her mother just can't cope. Zara's wrong. The man she sees everywhere - the tall, creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road - is not...
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Publisher
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Laugh with the Moon is on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother?s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her...
6) Clover Moon
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English
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Clover Moon's imagination is her best escape from a life of hardship in poverty-stricken Victorian London. When tragedy plunges her into a world of grief, Clover realises that everything she loved about the place she called home is gone. Clover hears of a place she could run to, but where will she find the courage - and the chance - to break free? And could leaving her family be just what she needs to find a place that really feels like home?
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he?s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."...
8) Maybe a fox
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better than just sisters, better than best friends. Jules' favourite thing is collecting rocks, and Sylvie's is running - fast. But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the most dangerous part of the river one snowy morning to throw in a wish rock, she is so fast that no one sees what happens when she disappears. At that very moment, in another part of the woods, a shadow fox is born: half of the spirit world,...
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