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  • 6th Grade Can Really Kill You

    Barthe Declements

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, May 1, 1989)
    Helen fears that lack of improvement in her reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade forever, until a good teacher recognizes her reading problem.
    S
  • The Contender

    Robert Lipsyte

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Aug. 1, 1987)
    After a successful start in a boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides that competing in the ring isn't enough of life and resolves to aim for different goals.
    Z+
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Mildred D. Taylor

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, June 1, 1989)
    A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
    W
  • Number the Stars

    Lois Lowry

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Feb. 1, 1995)
    This Newbery Medal Book describes how a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.
    U
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake

    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Oct. 1, 1990)
    Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead
    Q
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die

    Robert Newton Peck

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Sept. 1, 1987)
    A Shaker youth living in a Vermont community grows to maturity during his thirteenth year
    Z
  • Jacob Have I Loved

    Katherine Paterson

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, May 1, 1990)
    Having felt deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity
    X
  • Soup & Me

    Robert Newton Peck, Charles Lilly

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, June 1, 1990)
    The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town
    S
  • There's a Bat in Bunk Five

    Paula Danziger

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Sept. 1, 1988)
    On her own for the first time, fourteen-year-old Marcy tries to cope with the new people and situations she encounters while working as a counselor at an arts camp.
    U
  • The Trumpet of the Swan

    E. B. White, Edward Frascino

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
    R
  • This Place Has No Atmosphere

    Paula Danziger

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, Sept. 1, 1989)
    Fourteen-year-old Aurora finds her perfect life upset when her parents, hoping to have Aurora become more serious and sensible decide to become settlers on the moon
    U
  • How to Fight a Girl

    Thomas Rockwell, Gioia Fiammenghi

    Hardcover (Cornerstone Books, May 1, 1988)
    Joe and Alan's plan to get revenge on Billy backfires when their own secret weapon, the prettiest girl in their fifth grade class, become Billy's friend instead
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