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The war is over, and Annie de Leeuw is free from her prison in the attic room where she and her sister have been hiding for more than two years. But freedom isn't wonderful--the war has destroyed her country, and hunger, illness and broken families are everywhere. Will life ever be normal again? AUTHOR: Johanna Reiss
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Herbie Jones by Jim Fyfe, Richard Williams, Suzy Kline
Description not available.Herbie's experiences in the third grade include finding bones in the boy's bathroom, wandering away from his class on their field trip, and being promoted to a higher reading group. AUTHOR: Jim Fyfe, Richard Williams, Suzy Kline
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
A young white girl named Patricia and her two best friends, a pair of African-American brothers named Stewart and Winston, perform a secret ceremony that makes them brothers and sister. After Patricia's grandmother dies, she adopts the boy's grandmother, Miss Eula, as her own. When the trio hears Miss Eula wishing for a beautiful hat to wear on Easter, they set out to raise money in order to buy the hat for her. Pencil-and-wash illustrations accompany the text. This story is based on the author's own childhood memories. AUTHOR: Patricia Polacco
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Granlector Colorado by Scholastic, Inc. Staff
Description not available.As the dogs go out to play in the snow, Cleo hurts her right paw learning how to slide, but Clifford the Big Red Dog and Cleo's other friends wonder if she is really hurt or if she is merely vying for attention. Original. AUTHOR: Scholastic, Inc. Staff
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson, Shmuel Thaler
How does your garden grow? In this book, you'll see what happens when a pumpkin grows from a teeny seed into a big, orange globe. You'll also discover other special things that visit the pumpkin patch, from blooming flowers to cool insects! Color photographs throughout. AUTHOR: George Levenson, Shmuel Thaler
PUBLISHER: Tricycle Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Auto-da-Fe by D. V. Wedgewood, Elias Canetti
Canetti's only work of fiction, written when he was 26, is a powerful novel of madness and self-destruction. A noted China scholar named Peter Kien has spent his entire inheritance on his obsession: his 25,000 books. Out of guilt for disliking her, he marries his housekeeper, who refuses to believe he has squandered his wealth and tries to reverse the situation, with disastrous results including a fire in which Kien and his books are all destroyed. AUTHOR: D. V. Wedgewood, Elias Canetti
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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