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Fort

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Fort

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies."--

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Macmillan

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0374324271

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9780374324278

Death at Devil's Bridge

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

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Despite a great summer job as first mate on a fishing boat out of Martha's Vineyard, 13-year-old Ben gets caught up with illegal drugs and possibly murder. In this exciting sequel to "Devil's Bridge", the hero faces up to his own weakness and struggles with what to do about a friend who is deeply involved in the crimes.

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Macmillan

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0374317232

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9780374317232

The Missing Manatee

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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The Missing Manatee

By: Cynthia DeFelice

A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family, Cynthia DeFelice's The Missing Manatee is "Sure to hook readers." -Booklist All Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out permanently. Then, while riding in his boat to escape his parents' troubles, he discovers a manatee that's been shot in the head. Skeet puts aside his search for the manatee and its killer when Dirty Dan the Tarpon Man offers to take him out to catch his first tarpon on a fly. Because of Dan, Skeet begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manatee's apparent murder and his parents' dissolving marriage. Skeet discovers that life is a lot like tarpon fishing, in which you can't look just at the surface of the water - you have to look through it, at what lies beneath. The Missing Manatee was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466893591

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9781466893597

The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

By: Cynthia DeFelice

The second mystery solved by Allie Nichols, "ghost magnet", from author Cynthia DeFelice, author of The Ghost of Fossil Glen Just a few short weeks ago, sixth-grader Allie Nichols realized that she must be some kind of ghost magnet when she met the spirit of a murdered girl. Now, a new ghost has appeared to her, a handsome young man, and he's pointed her in the direction of her creepy cafeteria lady, Mrs. Hobbs. Allie has always suspected Mrs. Hobbs of something, and this just confirms it. So do the mysterious fires that keep breaking out every time Allie tries to investigate her. Surely Mrs. Hobbs isn't going to kill her. Or is she? “Another dangerously thrilling supernatural adventure . . . A diverting and suspenseful ghost story offering a likeable protagonist and a thrilling romantic spark.” —The Horn Book

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1429955511

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9781429955515

Wild Life

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

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Wild Life

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

When 12-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.

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188

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Macmillan

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0374380015

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9780374380014

Bringing Ezra Back

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Bringing Ezra Back

By: Cynthia DeFelice

In Bringing Ezra Back, Nathan Fowler returns to rescue his friend who helped him escape danger in this action-packed sequel to Cynthia DeFelice's beloved Weasel. September 1840 marks five months since twelve-year-old Nathan Fowler's life-threatening encounter with Weasel, the heartless man who stalked Nathan like a wild animal through the forest. Nathan hasn't been the same since, wary of every new person he meets - including the visiting peddler Orrin Beckwith. When Beckwith shows Nate and his family a handbill advertising a show with a "white Injun," a man without a tongue, Nathan is sure the man is his friend Ezra, who lost his tongue to Weasel's knife. Determined to save Ezra from this traveling show of "human oddities," Nathan sets out with Beckwith from Ohio to Pennsylvania. On the way, Nathan encounters more people than he's ever met before, and he begins to learn a thing or two about human nature. The biggest shock, however, is Ezra himself, and it will take more than Nathan bargained for to bring him back home.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1466893583

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9781466893580

When Grampa Kissed His Elbow

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

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When Grampa Kissed His Elbow

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

Maggie's visit to Grampa's house in the country allows her to see everyday magic like newly hatched mayflies, baby birds, and ice falling from the summer sky.

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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0027264556

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9780027264555

Weasel

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Weasel

By: Cynthia DeFelice

The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal... Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, the weasel, he hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills not because he is hungry, but for the sport of it...I know what I have to do. Weasel is out there. He could come here and hurt us. Maybe Pa can wait for the day when we'll have the law to take care of men like Weasel. But I can't...

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132

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Harper Collins

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0380713586

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9780380713585

The Ghost of Poplar Point

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The Ghost of Poplar Point

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Allie Nichols, "Ghost Magnet," has only just finished sixth grade, but already she's grappled with her fair share of adventure: three ghosts have sought her help in less than two months. Now that summer has finally arrived, Allie is ready for a break. Too bad ghosts don't know about summer vacation. When a new spirit causes Allie to babble incomprehensibly at rehearsals for her town's first pageant, she and her best friend, Dub, know they have another ghostly mystery to solve. But why does the ghost seem so interested in the pageant, which portrays the relationship between the area's early European settlers and the local Seneca Indians? And could its manifestation have anything to do with the rich girl who just came to town with her family? In the fourth fascinating ghost book by Cynthia DeFelice, Allie and Dub uncover a centuries-old secret—the destruction of a Seneca village at Poplar Point—and come up with a plan to share it.

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148

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1429965134

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9781429965132

The Ghost of Cutler Creek

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The Ghost of Cutler Creek

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The third book about "ghost magnet" Allie Nichols, age 11, who this time is contacted by the restless spirit of a dog. Once again, she shares her ghostly adventure with her best friend, Dub, in this chilling installment, The Ghost of Cutler Creek. Allie Nichols has hardly laid the last spirit to rest when she's sure that another one is trying to reach her. But how can Allie help a ghost who won't speak? All she has to go on is a sound—a sort of whine—and a smell. At the same time, a strange boy joins her sixth-grade class. Allie doesn't understand why L. J. Cutler would start a new school at the end of the year, or why he's such a surly kid. She wants nothing to do with him. Then Mr. Henry, a teacher she loves, asks Allie to dog-sit Hoover, his golden retriever, while he's away and to befriend L.J. over the summer. She's delighted to spend time with Hoover, but she hardly looks forward to visiting L. J. Cutler—until she discovers a connection between L.J., the ghost, and Hoover. “As always, DeFelice tells a gripping, suspenseful story, keeping readers engaged with realistically depicted human as well as animal characters.” —The Horn Book

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1429990953

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9781429990950

Wild Life

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

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Wild Life

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Macmillan

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0374380015

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9780374380014

The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

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The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

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After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice in this award-winning chapter book from beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease. Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. Lucas can't accept Doc's disbelief, and he joins others in the dark ritual they believe is their only hope. The startling results teach Lucas a great deal about fear, desperation, and the scientific reasoning that offers hope for a true cure. The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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160

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374706727

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9780374706722

Signal

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Signal

By: Cynthia DeFelice

One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area—alien meaning "from someplace else"—and Campion claims to come from someplace else entirely, a planet called Home. She plans to signal her parents to come pick her up in their spaceship. Owen agrees to help, and as he does, he feels happier than he has in a long time: his mother died a year and a half ago, and now he and his workaholic father live together like two planets on separate orbits, in a new house far from his friends. What will he do when Campion asks him to come with her into outer space, away from his lonely life on Earth? In this moving novel, two friendless kids search the night sky for something to believe in—but discover that they've found what they need right here on Earth.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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142994708X

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9781429947084

Devil's Bridge

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

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Devil's Bridge

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

For Ben, there's more involved in the annual Striped Bass Derby than catching the biggest fish. He's proud of the fact that no one has ever beaten his father's record which was won before Ben was born. But now Ben overhears two men plotting to win the prize money by cheating! Ben has to stop them, at all costs, but bringing the men to justice turns out to be a chase that almost costs him his life.

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100

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Harper Collins

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0380721171

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9780380721177

Under the Same Sky

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Under the Same Sky

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A teenager discovers racism and romance on his father's farm in author Cynthia DeFelice's Under the Same Sky. For his fourteenth birthday, Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly a thousand dollars. But his mom says the usual birthday gift is fifty dollars, and his dad wants Joe to earn the rest of the money himself and "find out what a real day's work feels like." Angry that his father doesn't think he's up to the job, Joe joins the Mexican laborers who come to his father's farm each summer. Manuel, the crew boss, is only sixteen, yet highly regarded by the other workers and the Pedersen family. Joe's resentment grows when his father treats Manuel as an equal. Compared with Manuel, Joe knows nothing about planting and hoeing cabbage and picking strawberries. But he toughs out the long, grueling days in the hot sun, determined not only to make money but to gain the respect of his stern, hardworking father. Joe soon learns about the problems and fears the Mexicans live with every day, and, before long, thanks to Manuel, his beautiful cousin Luisa, and the rest of the crew, Joe comes to see the world in a whole different way. In her sensitive novel, Cynthia DeFelice explores our dependency on migrant workers and simultaneous reluctance to let these people into our country and into our lives. Under the Same Sky is a Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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139

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429955910

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9781429955911

Lostman's River

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

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Lostman's River

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem, and as a result joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.

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164

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Harper Collins

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0380723964

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9780380723966

Bringing Ezra Back

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Bringing Ezra Back

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In the mid-1800s, twelve-year-old Nathan journeys from his farm on the Ohio frontier to Western Pennsylvania to rescue a friend held captive by the owners of a freak show.

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0374399395

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9780374399399

Death at Devil's Bridge

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice

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Death at Devil's Bridge

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0374317232

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9780374317232

Lostman's River

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Lostman's River

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0380723964

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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

By: Cynthia C. DeFelice,Cynthia DeFelice

Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--T.p. verso.

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196

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Harper Collins

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0060011726

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9780060011727

Trudy

The Cedar Cove Chronicles, Book Four

By: Cynthia Ulmer

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Trudy

The Cedar Cove Chronicles, Book Four

By: Cynthia Ulmer

Shortly after eloping with her sister's boyfriend, Trudy soon found herself in an abusive marriage. Now, six years later, she's coming home, unsure if she'll be accepted or rejected by the ones she loves and hurt the most.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1449530362

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9781449530365

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