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| The main characters in this book are: Andrew Marcus, Nicky Lane, Sharon, Mrs. Marcus, and Miss Kelley |
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| Freckle Juice by Judy Blume |
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| Andrew drinks a foul tasting potion that makes him very sick and doesn't do what he was told it would do. He sure did want a neck full of freckles! |
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| Freckle Juice by Judy Blume |
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| Sharon has a secret family recipe for sale that is guaranteed to work miracles for her classmates! |
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| Freckle Juice by Judy Blume |
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| The main characters in this book are: the Alden Orphans (Henry, Jessie, Violet, & Benny), DR and Mrs. Moore, and James Henry Alden |
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| The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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| After being orphaned these children find and repair a home using whatever they find in the nearby area. The oldest brother goes and finds work to get money for food and other needed items. |
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| The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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| Their grandfather lives in Greenfield but they decide to go to Silver City to find a place to live. |
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| The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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| They work for and make friends with a nearby doctor; who later makes their little sister better. |
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| The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner |
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| The main characters in this book are: Molly, her mom, Miss Stickley, Elizabeth, and Emma. |
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| Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen |
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| She did not like school in Winter Hill because the other children tease and laugh at her, especially Elizabeth. |
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| Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen |
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| Her family was Jewish; spoke Yiddish; and was from Goraduk, Russia. The Cossacks had burned down their synagogue and they had moved to America to be safe. |
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| Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen |
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| Her Papa had gotten a job at Mr. Brodsky's store and they lived upstairs in an nice apartment. Before that her father had worked in a factory in New York City and they lived in a poor tenement house. |
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| Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen |
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| Her mother makes her a clothespin doll that looks just like herself. It has a embroidered face, yarn hair with a yellow flowered kerchief, a long red skirt, and a yellow high-neck blouse. |
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| Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen |
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| The main characters in this story are: James Henry Trotter, Aunt Sponge & Aunt Spiker, and a whole bunch of garden bugs. |
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| James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
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| After his parents are eaten by an escaped rhinoceros from the London Zoo, James goes to live with his aunts on top of a high hill far from the sea where he grew up. |
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| James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
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| After being freed from mean guardians, James goes on a trip around the world, all the way to New York City, inside a enormous fruit with friends that were mutated by magical crocodile tongue stew that was made by a very odd old man. |
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| James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
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| He had been orphaned and then locked up by mean relatives, has tied and untied many dozen shoes, was almost eaten by sharks but then saved & carried away by sea birds, fought Cloud-Men, was thought to be an alien, and then he feed an entire city & built a house out of what remained. |
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| James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl |
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| The main characters from this story are: the Sasaki Family (Sadako, Masahiro, Mitsue, Eiji, and their parents), Chizuko, Nurse Yasunaga, DR Numata, and Kenji. |
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| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr |
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| She was born in Japan just before the United States dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. She lived there and later died from the aftermath of radiation exposure. She developed leukemia. |
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| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr |
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| The main character loved to run fast and eat cotton candy. Her family met her best friend and went to a memorial day celebraton on Peace Day. There was speeches, people selling things & food, fireworks, and a floating candle ceremony. |
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| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr |
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| The main characters are: the Freebold children (Amanda, Jemmy, & Meg, & their parents), Miss Tripplet, DR Crider, and the Hopkins family. |
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| A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla |
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| Their mother had fallen down the stairs while sick. The oldest daughter took over the mom's work while the younger kids stayed out of the way on the back steps. |
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| A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla |
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| Their father, James Freebold, had given his family a lion's head brass doorknocker when he sailed from London to the colony in Jamestown to help build the town. He was a carpenter that had been gone three years. |
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| A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla |
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| Their door knocker was stolen by people that thought it was made of gold after their friend and protector, Dr Crider, was lost at sea. |
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| A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla |
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| The main characters in this story are: Senor David, Armando and his family. |
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| Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine |
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| His family are pependores (trash pickers) that live off what they can use, recycle, and sell from their pickings at the city dump. |
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| Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine |
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| His dad needs his help to support their family but he longs to go to school with his younger siblings to learn to read & write in both English and Spanish. He especially loves to draw! |
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| Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine |
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| When a fire burns down several homes, his picture of the fiery night in the newspaper brings in support and money to construct a school building in the colonia. |
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| Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine |
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