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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 8
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The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue a magical unicorn from New York City. They arrive during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. Where will Jack and Annie ever find a unicorn in the city? And who are the mysterious people following them? Includes instructions to make a snow globe.
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Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
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English
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Black History Month 2023 Children
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - John Newbery Medal
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - John Newbery Medal
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
8) Two roads
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In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.--
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
15) Dust for dinner
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[1995]
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First edition.
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English
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Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.
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