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2007 Required Summer Reading
My Teacher Is an Alien
My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville
Susan and Peter's class has been invaded, and it's up to them to save the 6th grade from a fate worse than a math test.
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The classic and beloved story of an orphan and pickpocket on the streets of 19th century London.
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One More Day
One More Day by Mitch Albom
Charley Benetto, an alcoholic considering suicide, is given the chance to spend one more day with his mother, who had died eight years earlier
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Orphan Train Rider
Orphan Train Rider by Andrea Warren
The author discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929, by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
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Parallel Journeys
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor H Ayer
An account of World War II in Germany, as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
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