my life next door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

the part i liked was when a girl met the people who lives new next door and she fell in love and she started babysitting the kids just to see the boy and the baby was use to being carried on one side and she would pull on the bathing suit.

-Eden

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Loser by Jerry Spinelli

The book loser is about a child named Zinkoff. Zinkoff is in kindergarden and gets into a lot of trouble. Then the book goes on to 1st grade and he gets a new bike that he rides every where. this book goes till 6th grade. In 6th grade Zinkoff heres that a little girl was missing so he tryed to look for the girl. This girl is found an hour after the search team goes and looks for her still. Also it is snowing out so a plow found him when he was in an alley under the snow.
-Percilla

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Sing a Song of Tuna Fish by Esme Codell

As a kid Esme had a crazy life egging cars,stealing matzoh, and getting lost in the snow! Learn about her as a kid growing up in Chicago with her mom, dad and her little brother!

-Sydney

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Almost Home by Joan Bauer

Almost Home is about a girl named Sugar and how she becomes homeless after the police take away their house. Sugar and her Mom, Reba, move to Chicago to find work, but things do not go as planned and Reba does not get a job. She ends up having a mental breakdown and Sugar goes to live with Lexie and Mac. The book focuses on Sugar's life with Lexie and Mac and her dog Shush

--Zoe

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Ten Rules for Living With My Sister by Ann M. Martin

Pearl, a nine year old girl feels like her older sister does everything better than her, and compares them, like Lexie has her own key to the apartment, and Pearl doesn't. Lexie has alot of friends, Pearl has one. Lexie has a full name, Pearl doesn't Lexie (Pearl's older sister) feels that Pearl is very annoying. They can't stand each other. But, one day their grandfather, Daddy Bo moves in for a few months, and Pearl has to move in to Lexie's room. She doesn't want any fights or arguments happening, and she knows she has to be on her best behavior, and blah, blah, blah, so Pearl makes a list of ten rules to follow.

-Anna

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What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

This is an award winning book about a 15 year old girl named Evie (Evelyn.) All she wants to do is grow up fast and be like her mother. Her mother is overprotective and tells her, she doesn't have to grow up fast. Joe, Evie's stepfather comes back from the war and is drinking alot, and receiving annoymous phone calls. He suddenly decides to take a trip down to Florida. They stay in a hotel. One night Evie discovers that a high school dance is happening in the hotel ballroom, and dresses up in her mother's clothes to make her look older. At the dance she feels stupid and went out to the pool. There a man asks her to dance. Evie finds out his name was Peter, and he was an ex-GI during the war. Suddenly, her mom is taking long shopping trips, the Grayson's (a couple from the hotel) are fighting, and Evie finds herself right in the middle of it. This is sometimes a very, very, very inappropiate book.

-Anna

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One Square Inch by Claudia Mills

Cooper and his little sister receive deeds to a couple deeds to square inches of land in Yukon. Of course, Cooper doesn't believe this at first. Carly, as imaginative little kids can be, creates her own kingdom of Inchland, while their mother still lies in her bed, sleeping. Cooper is worried that they will soon run out of money since her mom isn't going to her job, and this is his first year of middle school. Will they ever get to Yukon? Will Cooper's mom ever get out of her sleeping phase? Read this book to find out!

-David

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diary of a wimpy kid, the last straw/ jeff kinney

gregs dad had enough of gregs nonsense, so he threatens greg to start to grow up or then he will be moved to military school.

-Safi

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amber brown/ you can't eat your chicken pox/ paula danziger

amber brown is a very,very,very excited third grader when she finds out that she soon will visit her aunt pam in london, she is so excited, until she gets bored and itchy when she gets the chicken pox. she starts to think that her vacation is ruined.

-Safi

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Wonder by R.J Palacio

August is about to go to 5th grade at an actual school. Ever since he was little he has been home schooled. August was born with a facial deformity, so he's really scared on what people will think when they first see him. Can he make friends at his new school?

-Anusha

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tiger rising by kate dicamillo

Have you guys read tiger rising? well i have and its about a boy named rob who has a tiger.and the only one who knows his secret is sistene a new girl who goes to her school. they face many challenges along the way and many adventures.if u have nothing to read this summer read tiger rising. i recommend it.

-pricscilla

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Life Happens Next by Terry Trueman

This is the next book in the series Stuck In Neutral. Shawn has lived to be 15! And naturally (at his age) he has fallen in love... With a girl... A pretty girl... A hot girl... A girl who is fully alive and living... And another girl moves in. A girl who has mental problems... Follow Shawn through another difficult year of his life. Read this amazing, heartwarming book.

-Maya

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A Whole Lot of Lucky by Danette Haworth

Hailee Richardson is not very rich, but she still has big dreams and they dont include hand-me-down things from the Salvation Army, until... her dad buys the winning ticket! Hailee gets a brand new bike, gets transferred to a fancy private school and makes a lot of new friends, but sometimes big changes happen to fast. How lucky can she get, or is this all not what she wanted?

-Anusha

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Schooled by Gordon Korman

Capricorn Anderson has spent his whole life living in Garland farm With his hippie grandmother/teacher.
But one day, his grandmother Rain, falls out of a plum tree and Cap is forced to go to a regular public school. Cap knows nothing, absolutely nothing about regular schools. He doesn't get why people keep stuff in lockers, what a wedgie is, and most of all why the kids wear weird looking clothes.
There's a school tradition where in eighth grade everyone chooses the biggest loser to be president (with nobody against them so that person's automatically president), and watch that person make a fool of themselves. Of course Cap is nominated. Read the book to find out what happens.

-Anna

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The Pact by Jodi Picoult

I finally finished this book, but part of me feels as though the story is incomplete. To me, it seems as though that Chris's life is worthless now that the girl of his dreams is dead while people still believe that he *SPOILER ALERT* is the murder even though he was declared not guilty. *SPOILER ALERT IS DONE* Anyway, the story had less of a twist then her other novels which is a relief. You can only read so much Picoult without being completely ruined.

On that note, I definitely recommend this book. It's a bit of a depressing read and it takes awhile for the real awesome action (when they are in court) to begin but it's worth it. So good luck and enjoy the book.

-Mary

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Tall Story

This book is about a girl named Andi, and her brother, Bernardo. Andi, her Filipino mom (or should i say mum), and her English dad live in London. This book is about how her "long-lost" brother, Bernardo, finally reunites with the family after he leaves San Andres in the Philippines for London, England. But there are some catches. After all, Bernardo is REALLY tall (and when i say that i mean REALLY TALL!) and has an interesting(and mystical) past. This book is really good and i recommend it to anyone with a good taste in books, and to people without.

If you’re still not convinced, this book is a Tallulah and Blanche Book Awards book, which pretty much proves how awesome it is.

-Nacie

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A Mango Shaped Space

This book was very interesting and was fun to read, because of the cat whose name is Mango. The main character named Mia, named her cat cat Mango because of the sound of his purrs. one thing I liked in this book was that I got to know more about Mia's family and I thought that was funny because the author Wendy Mass chose to make Mia the normal kid in this book and the rest of the family have a awkwardness in them.

-Noshin

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