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All the more moving in its restraint, this picture-book account of a fictional family reveals, with gentle dignity, a sad chapter in American history.
At home, Masako speaks Japanese and sips green tea with her parents. But at her friends' houses near San Francisco, May speaks English and enjoys pancakes and tea with milk and sugar. When May's parents decide to return to Japan, she feels lost.
Cammie attends the private Gallagher Academy, a boarding school for spies in training. The only problem is that it's an all-girls school.
Eleven-year-old Harriet follows her spy route every day, recording her findings (findings for her eyes only) in her notebook. When her classmates find the notebook, Harriet has to deal with the consequences.
Even super-spy James Bond was a teenager once. In this series, we meet James as a 14-year old boarding-school student, long before he became the suave jet-setter we know and love.
This book is part of the highly successful series that features Alex Rider, a British teenage spy. In this entry, Alex is weary of the dangerous spy life, but after he meets little Paul in the hospital, he is back at work.
This spy history features cool gadgets and the stories of famous spies, as well as the fictional spies we know through movies and books.
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"IF SHE DIES, I'll die," are the words 15-year-old Mia Perlman writes in her journal the night her mother is diagnosed with cancer.
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim in Montana.