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Fourth Grade Is A Jinx
Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, July 1, 1990)Collette's teacher has an accident and Collette's mother becomes the substitute, which leads to lots of embarrassment for Collette, especially when her mom starts a fire during a science lab
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Fifteen at Last
Candice F. Ransom
Paperback (Scholastic, Sept. 15, 1990)When she turns fifteen, Kobie figures her best year is ahead of her. Then her friend Gretchen falls in love, so Kobie develops a crush on her math teacher. When her plan to win his heart backfires, an unwelcome secret admirer confuses things more.
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Hiroshima
Laurence Yep
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1996)Based on real accounts by Hiroshima survivors, the fictional story of twelve-year-old Sachi follows her witness to the devastation in her city as a result of the bombing and describes her healing process as she helps to rebuild her home. Reprint.
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Ghost Cat
Beverly Butler
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Oct. 1, 1989)Visiting for the first time on the family farm with relatives she doesn't quite feel comfortable around, fourteen-year-old Annabel gradually unravels a mystery involving a crying cat, an abandoned house, a forty-year-old feud, suspicions of murder, and her own grandparents.When Annabel spends the summer at an old farmhouse, she encounters the ghosts of a woman and a cat
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Day The Fifth Grade Disappeared
Terri Fields
Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Dec. 1, 1992)When her entire fifth grade class disappears and then reappears before she can show anyone, Julia begins to think that something supernatural has taken over her school. Original.
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The Adventures of the Red Tape Gang
Joan Lowery Nixon
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 1, 1989)A young girl tries to be accepted by a boy's club and a group of friends attempt to rid their community of a problem in this story of intrigue
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Sixth Grade Secrets
Louis Sachar
Paperback (Scholastic, June 1, 1989)When Laura Sibbie starts a club called Pig City, she incites a near-war among her sixth-grade classmates and generates the creation of a rival club that has designs on Pig City's precious box of secrets.
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Too Many Murphys
Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna
Paperback (Apple, Nov. 1, 1992)Collette Murphy, eight years old, wishes she were an only child, and is surprised when her wish comes true for a day.
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Encyclopedia Brown's Book Of Strange But True Crimes
Donald J. Sobol, Rose Sobol
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 1, 1992)A collection of unbelievable stories right out of Encyclopedia Brown's own notebooks includes the tale of blow-torch-wielding safecrackers, a purse-snatching elephant, and the groom who got himself arrested in order to miss his own wedding. Reprint.
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Fifth Grade: Here Comes Trouble
Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 1, 1997)Collette is horrified that her friend Marsha is going to invite boys to her birthday party
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Sleepers, Wake
Paul Samuel Jacobs
Paperback (Apple, Dec. 1, 1994)Follows the adventures of a ten-year-old boy who, after awakening from a hibernation state, discovers that his hundred-year journey through space has caused his body to change. By the author of Born to Light. Reprint.
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The Bears Upstairs
Dorothy Haas
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1989)A young girl helps two bears rendezvous with the inhabitants of the planet Brun.