Summer Books to Discover!

 

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1. Penny from heaven

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Author:
Holm, Jennifer L.
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As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.

2. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963: a novel

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Author:
Curtis, Christopher Paul
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

3. The birchbark house

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Author:
Erdrich, Louise
Series:
Birchbark house volume 1.
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people...

4. Moon over Manifest

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Author:
Vanderpool, Clare
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Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.