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1) Soar
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Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
2) Aquamarine
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A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
5) Pop
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Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
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CR - Good reads for Grownups
CR - Immigrants welcome! Fiction and Nonfiction
CR - We Need Diverse Books - Fiction
CR - Immigrants welcome! Fiction and Nonfiction
CR - We Need Diverse Books - Fiction
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When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
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Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.
12) Fleabag
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A stray dog and a lonely boy become fast friends at a neighborhood park, but everything changes when the boy's family decides to move away.
15) Far from fair
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As far as twelve-year-old Odette Zyskowski is concerned, her parents have ruined her life by selling the house she and her younger brother have grown up in, getting an RV, and giving her some little mutt instead of the Labrador Retriever she wanted--but as they travel north to see her grandmother, Odette becomes aware of an even more frightening problem: her parents may be on the verge of a divorce.
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CR - Characters with disabilities
CR - Good reads for Grownups
CR - If You Liked "Benefits of Being an Octopus"
CR - Good reads for Grownups
CR - If You Liked "Benefits of Being an Octopus"
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Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.
19) Skipping school
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Fifteen-year-old Phillip feels isolated and confused as he tries to cope with his father's teminal illness and his family's recent move from their farm to a home in the suburbs.
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