Donna Jo Napoli
21) Hands and hearts
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"Highlights the bond between a mother and her child while providing a gentle introduction to sign language during their day at the beach"--
22) A single pearl
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"A simple grain of sand undergoes an inspiring transformation"--
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Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 1
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Sly the Sleuth, also known as Sylvia, solves three mysteries for her friends and neighbors, all involving pets, through her detective agency, Sleuth for Hire.
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Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 2
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Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of the soccer switch, the kick craze and the basketball blues.
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Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 3
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Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve the case of something fishy, something cooking, and something seedy.
27) Hidden
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When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
28) Pink magic
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Nick wishes for some pink mail addressed just to him and his sister helps make it happen.
29) Zel
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Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
30) Changing tunes
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Ten-year-old Eileen's life changes drastically when her father separates from her mother and moves out, taking with him the piano on which she is used to practicing every day.
33) North
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Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
34) Ready to dream
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While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.
35) Bound
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In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
36) The crossing
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In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.
37) Stones in water
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After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
38) Albert
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One day, when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.