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Lila on the Landing
(age 7-10) by Sue Alexander friendship ... identity Lila, always the last to be chosen for games by the other children, earns their interest and acceptance by creating her own imaginative activities on the landing of her apartment house. |
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One Yellow Daffodil: a Hanukkah Story
(age 7-10) by David Adler traditions ... identity ... survival A Holocaust survivor shares Hanukkah with a loving family that gives him the courage to remember. |
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Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper: a Junior Novelization
(age 7-10) by Linda Williams Aber identity ... princesses Catalog: Barbie plays a double role in the story of two girls from very different worlds, but with identical faces, who decide to switch places. |
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Eat!
(age 7-10) by Steven Kroll identity ... school Catalog: Harry's decision to become a vegetarian causes some problems for him in his third-grade class. |
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Wings
(age 7-10) by Christopher Myers identity ... friendship Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality. |
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Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back
(age 7-10) by Shel Silverstein adventure ... humor ... identity "You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows." But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world's greatest sharp-shooter. Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all! |
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Mostly Monty
(age 7-10) by Johanna Hurwitz identity ... school A shy boy with asthma starts first grade and comes into his own, in this appealing story for early chapter book readers. With familiar situations and gentle humor, Hurwitz follows an endearing character as he discovers that being himself can be pretty great after all. |
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Ginger Brown: Too Many Houses
(age 7-10) by Sharon Dennis Wyeth identity ... family When her parents get a divorce, six-year-old Ginger lives for a while with each set of grandparents and begins to understand her mixed background and her new family situation. |
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Juliet Fisher and the Foolproof Plan
(age 7-10) by Natalie Honeycutt humor ... friendship ... identity Juliet always tries to be perfect, but all the kids hate her. But when Lydia Jane starts sharing her desk, Juliet learns to have fun. |
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Go Fish
(age 7-10) by Mary Stolz identity ... family After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage. |
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Sarah and the People of Sand River
(age 7-10) by W. D. Valgardson historical ... identity ... school Sarah, twelve-year-old, is sent to the city by her widowed father to stay with Mrs. Simpson and go to school but Mrs. Simpson exploits and abuse Sarah until Sarah finds the courage to get back home. |
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Don't Call Me Slob-o
(age 7-10) by Doris Orgel identity ... friendship Shrimp must decide whether to befriend the new boy in his neighborhood, who is a Croatian American, or to join the kids who make fun of his name and his accent. |
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My Name Is Maria Isabel
(age 7-10) by Alma Flor Ada identity ... realistic ... school For Maria Isabel Salazar Lopez, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marias in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?" But Maria Isabel has been named for her Papa's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself? |
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The Hundred Dresses
(age 7-10) by Eleanor Estes identity ... friendship ... school Publisher comments: Wanda Petronski is an immigrant girl in an American school, who is ridiculed for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. When she tells her classmates that she has one hundred dresses at home, she unwittingly triggers a game of teasing that eventually ends in a lesson for all. |