Kathleen McInerney
1) 13 gifts
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Willow Falls series volume 3
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English
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Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
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In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
If You Like One and Only Ivan, Read These!
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--
5) 11 birthdays
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Series
Willow Falls series volume 1
Language
English
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After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
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Wild robot volume 2
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English
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After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
7) Finally
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Series
Willow Falls series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
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Pain and the Great One volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 1
Language
English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One).
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Pain and the Great One volume 2
Language
English
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More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
11) Paint the wind
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Tired of continually having his feelings hurt by popular students and bullies, fifth-grader Nathan agrees to try an experimental formula, Hurt-Be-Gone, and becomes a half-dead zombie, a condition which, he soon discovers, has some real advantages.
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[2008]
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English
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Dulcie's taste of magic: Dulcie the fairy, who likes to work hard as head baker for Queen Clarion, reluctantly takes a vacation.
Silvermist and the ladybug curse: After an "unlucky" white ladybug lands on Silvermist's head, the usually calm water-talent fairy is convinced that she is under a curse.