National Kids
1.  2005 The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy - by: Jeanne Birdsall - ISBN: 0375831436
- From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4-6 -This enjoyable tale of four sisters, a new friend, and his snooty mother is rollicking fun. The girls'...
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2.  2004 Godless - by: Pete Hautman - ISBN: 0689862784
- From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up–Jason is a smart 15-year-old, an agnostic-leaning-toward-atheism, who resists following in the footsteps of his...
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3.  2003 The Canning Season - by: Polly Horvath - ISBN: 0374399565
- As in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, Polly Horvath tells the story of an abandoned child who is sent to live with two distant relatives...
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4.  2002 The House of the Scorpion - by: Nancy Farmer - ISBN: 0689852223
- Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of...
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5.  2001 True Believer - by: Virginia Euwer Wolff - ISBN: 0689852886
- 's Best of 2001 At 15, LaVaughn already knows that life is hard and that getting ahead takes a strong mind and an even stronger will. Surrounded by...
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6.  2000 Homeless Bird - by: Gloria Whelan - ISBN: 0064408191
- What if I don't like him? Of course you will like him. But what if I don't? Maa impatiently slapped at a fly. Then you must...
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7.  1999 When Zachary Beaver Came To Town - by: Kimberly Willis Holt - ISBN: 0440229049
- Summer in the tiny Texas town of Antler is traditionally a time for enjoying Wylie Womack's Bahama Mama snow cones and racking up the pins at...
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8.  1998 Holes - by: Louis Sachar - ISBN: 0440414806
- If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. Such is the reigning philosophy at...
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9.  1997 Dancing on the Edge - by: Han Nolan - ISBN: 0141302038
- Never before in the history of the National Book Award has an author been nominated two years in a row. Han Nolan was nominated in 1996 for Send Me...
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10.  1996 Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida - by: Victor Martinez - ISBN: 0064471861
- It's no wonder that Parrot in the Oven won the 1996 National Book Award for Young People's Fiction. Victor Martinez's lush, evocative prose...
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