Nunes, Susan
Summary: While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets a number of people to help him repair it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NUNRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYLWyeth, Sharon Dennis.
Summary: When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WYEBunting, Eve
Summary: Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small boy, and his parents. Now Laura says goodbye to Grandfather in her own special way, with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUNFarris, Christine King.
Summary: Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB KING FARBradby, Marie.
Summary: Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRABunting, Eve
Summary: Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2001