Joan Hiatt Harlow
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English
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Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.
4) Firestorm!
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English
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Description
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
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English
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The only home Tom has eve rnown is the mission orphanage. When he is sent to live and work with a fisherman and his wife, he finally sees his dream of a home and a dog coming true. When the fisherman's wife become's pregnant, Tom worries that he and Thunder will no longer be wanted.
6) The watcher
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1965 Newfoundland, thirteen-year-old Jessie's brave and impulsive nature leads her to commit a variety of daring acts, including rescuing a herd of wild ponies and kidnapping a poor orphan girl who is being mistreated by her guardians. Includes factual information about the history of the Newfoundland pony.
9) Blown away!
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1935 on the Florida Key of Matacumbe, thirteen-year-old Jake makes new friends during an idyllic summer, only to have everything change when a hurricane threatens the island.
10) Shadow bear
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Pub. Date
1981.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An Eskimo child and a polar bear cub encounter each other's shadows, made tall in the sun, and while running away in fear, come to realize the other one is also scared.
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