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Karen is finding more rotten luck in one term of eighth grade than most people have in 13 years. Her brother Aldo's adjusted just fine to their new town, but Karen's having bad luck making friends and keeping up her schoolwork. Now she's grounded from her babysitting job until her grades improve. It's just another stroke of bad luck. A fun read! --School Library Journal, starred review. AUTHOR: Johanna Hurwitz
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Washington by E. Sandy Powell
Description not available.Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and environment of the Evergreen State. AUTHOR: E. Sandy Powell
PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Shadow over San Mateo by Lauraine Snelling
Book six in the Golden Filly series, the sequel to Call for Courage. Trish has won it all, but the thrill of being the youngest person ever to win the Triple Crown is overshadowed by the sorrow of losing her father to cancer. Even racing has lost its spark, as Trish wonders if her gift with horses died with her father. AUTHOR: Lauraine Snelling
PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Woman in the Dunes by E. Dale Saunders, Kobo Abe
Abe's most celebrated novel tells the story of Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist who is taken prisoner when he enters a remote town on his search for a rare beetle. He is imprisoned at the bottom of one of the sand pits that comprise the strange village, along with a young widow who is being punished for an unknown transgression. Niki is forced to help her with her Sisyphean task of shoveling away the sand that threatens to engulf the town, and eventually, in the process, he comes to accept his new identity, finding the answer to his own question: Are you shoveling to survive, or surviving to shovel? Abe's brilliant, claustrophobic, mysteriously existential tale is remarkable for its hypnotic descriptions of the sand that dominates the book. The novel was made into an acclaimed movie in 1964, for which Abe wrote the screenplay. AUTHOR: E. Dale Saunders, Kobo Abe
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Love You Promised Me by David Unger, Silvia Molina
This novel about a middle-aged professional woman and the ending of a clandestine love affair is set in Mexico during the 1994 Mayan insurrection in Chiapas. Winner of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize. AUTHOR: David Unger, Silvia Molina
PUBLISHER: Curbstone Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Teamwork by Lisa Trumbauer
Description not available.Describes some of the advantages of working and playing as part of a team. AUTHOR: Lisa Trumbauer
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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