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Books in An Apple Paperback series

  • Oh Honestly, Angela!

    Nancy K. Robinson

    Paperback (Apple, Nov. 1, 1991)
    Eleven-year-old Tina works hard to convince her family that they should make sacrifices to help the poor and needy children of the world
  • Robin on His Own

    Johnniece Marshall Wilson

    Paperback (Apple, Feb. 1, 1992)
    A Black boy whose family is in transition tries to come to terms with the death of his mother.
  • The Pinballs

    Betsy Byars

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 10, 2004)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. You can't always decide where life will take you--especially when you're a kid. Carlie knows she's got no say in what happens to her. Stuck in a foster home with two other kids, Harvey and Thomas J, she's just a pinball being bounced from bumper to bumper. As soon as you get settled, somebody puts another coin in the machine and off you go again. But against her will and her better judgment, Carlie and the boys become friends. And all three of them start to see that they can take control of their own Iives.
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  • Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

    Ann M. Martin

    Paperback (Scholastic Book Services, Jan. 1, 1986)
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  • The Orphan and the Doll

    Tracy Friedman

    Paperback (Apple, Oct. 1, 1988)
    When little orphaned Amanda finds Henriette, a beautiful porcelain doll in her bed one morning, she has no idea that the magical doll will help her find the home she never knew she had
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  • The Ghost of Windy Hill

    Clyde Robert Bulla

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Oct. 1, 1990)
    A professor with a reputation for being unafraid of ghosts moves with his family into a house that is supposed to be haunted but his children find the neighbors more mysterious than the house
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  • The Hot and Cold Summer

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 1984)
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  • Fourth Grade Rats

    Jerry Spinelli

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, March 1, 1993)
    From the 1991 Newbery Medal-winning author of Maniac Magee. Rats aren't afraid of spiders, don't carry babyish lunch-boxes, and never cry. But Fourth-grader Suds wishes he were still a third grade angel. A funny, believable, pithy look at peer pressure and growing up that will strike a familiar note with children.--Publishers Weekly.
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  • Amy Moves In

    Marilyn Sachs

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 1970)
    A classic.
  • Freedom Crossing

    Margaret Goff Clark

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Feb. 1, 1991)
    Laura is furious when she overhears her brother, Bert, and an old friend talking about her as if she were a stranger.
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  • Sticks and Stones, Bobbie Bones

    Brenda Roberts

    Paperback (Apple, Jan. 1, 1993)
    Nicknamed "Bobbie Bones" by Myra, the bully in her new school, Bobbie knows that she must face up to Myra's immature teasing but taking the first step proves difficult. Original.
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  • Baby-Sitters Little Sister # 2: Karen's Roller Skates

    Ann. M. Martin

    (Scholastic Inc, July 6, 1988)
    107 pages