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Before they were the Boxcar Children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden lived with their parents on Fair Meadow Farm....

Stanley Yelnats a hérité de la malédiction qui se transmet depuis son horrible-abominable-vaurien-d'arrière-arrière-grand-père-voleur-de-cochon: toujours au mauvais endroit, au mauvais moment. Injustement accusé de vol, Stanley est envoyé au Camp du Lac Vert, perdu dans un désert infesté de lézards.

Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him....

When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat....

Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again....

Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Padma Venkatraman's stirring middle-grade debut....

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed....

Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside....

Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts, must navigate grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever....

Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program....