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The Music Thief

By: Peni R. Griffin

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In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams -- music -- may be closer than she thinks. There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's head. An angry song, for Jovita and her killer, and Eddie, and everybody whose family did things that everybody had to live with. She could feel it, thumping in her brain, but couldn't hear it well enough to even hum it. Not in this house. She needed quiet, and a guitar. She needed Mrs. B's house. Alma misses many things. She misses her grandmother; her big brother Eddie back when he didn't deal drugs; the freedom she had before her baby niece Silvita was born; and now, worst of all, she misses Jovita, the singer she idolized who was recently killed in a drive-by shooting. Just when things seem hopeless, Alma discovers the cat door in her neighbor's often-empty home, and an unintended window opens into a better world, full of music. And what could be the harm in Alma's stealing (borrowing, really) a little peace and quiet, maybe even a ticket to her future? Peni R. Griffin has created a character at once bitter and optimistic. She has succeeded, even more impressively, in making the "dark" world surrounding Alma shine with small -- but life-changing -- possibility.

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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162779784X

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9781627797849

The Ghost Sitter

By: Peni R. Griffin

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The Ghost Sitter

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For fifty years, ten-year-old Susie has waited for her parents and sister to come back. Each new family who moves into her home seems not to notice her, except for the young children. Susie likes children. She even likes baby-sitting, but can she baby-sit forever? Why can't she get anyone else's attention? Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, despite her many baby-sitting duties. But someone else seems to be helping her watch her little brother. Someone only he can see. Gradually Charlotte realizes her all-too-normal house is haunted-by the ghost of a girl who doesn't or won't realize that she's dead. Set around the Fourth of July, this story offers two perspectives-one of the living and one of the dead-in a wholly entertaining and thought-provoking way.

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Penguin

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1101142588

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9781101142585

The Maze

By: Peni R. Griffin

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The Maze

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On her first visit to her father's new home, eight-year-old Caroline and her older stepbrother enter a magical painting left by one of her father's art students and find themselves trapped in a maze inhabited by mermaids, minotaurs, and other mythical creatures.

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136

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Margaret K. McElderry Books

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0689506244

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9780689506246

A Dig in Time

By: Peni R. Griffin

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A Dig in Time

By: Peni R. Griffin

Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from past presidents of the ETS and contributed a thorough introduction and probing epilogue of his own. Covering the early years, the maturing movement, and recent times, the addresses-which span JETS' first fifty years-include discussions of foundational doctrinal issues, exegetical and theological practice and methodology, and current concerns delivered by some of evangelicalism's most distinguished leaders. These presidential addresses give today's scholars a much fuller and deeper appreciation of the history of evangelicalism and their place within it. Readers will also experience great hope for the future of a movement whose best days, by God's grace, are yet to come.

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196

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0140360018

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9780140360011

Switching Well

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Switching Well

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Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.

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Puffin

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0140369104

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9780140369106

Hobkin

By: Peni R. Griffin

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Hobkin

By: Peni R. Griffin

Two sisters run away from their abusive stepfather and settle in an abandoned house in West Texas, only to find that they are not alone but share the premises with the mysterious and helpful Hobkin.

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214

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Margaret K. McElderry Books

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0689505396

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9780689505393

Otto from Otherwhere

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Otto from Otherwhere

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A ten-year-old alien boy travels through an interdimensional doorway to enter the lives of fifth grader Paula and her boisterous family for a year.

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198

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Atheneum

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0689505000

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9780689505003

11,000 Years Lost

By: Peni R. Griffin

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11,000 Years Lost

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Fascinated with the archaeological dig that is going on near her Texas home, eleven-year-old Esther magically travels back in time to the Pleistocene era and discovers first-hand how people lived at that time. Includes a list of sources and author's notes.

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356

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Harry N. Abrams

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0810992515

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9780810992511

Book's by Peni R. Griffin

The Music Thief

The Music Thief

The Ghost Sitter

The Ghost Sitter

The Maze

The Maze

A Dig in Time

A Dig in Time

Switching Well

Switching Well

Hobkin

Hobkin

Otto from Otherwhere

Otto from Otherwhere

11,000 Years Lost

11,000 Years Lost

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