Bookmarks - Grades 4-6
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Soar
By Joan Bauer
Twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has 60 days to find a baseball team to coach after his adoptive father accepts a job offer in Ohio.
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The War That Saved My Life
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother, Jamie, is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute. She sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in.
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Awkward
By Svetlana Chmakova
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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Study Hall of Justice
By Derek Fridolfs
Follow young Bruce Wayne and his friends Clark (Superman) and Diana (Wonder Woman) as they start a Junior Detective Agency to investigate their teachers and find out what’s going on behind closed doors at Doomvale Academy, all before recess.
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My Dog Is Better than Your Dog
By Tom Greenwald
Jimmy Bishop likes crime fighters, vampires and dogs, and he does not care for his new babysitter, so he is delighted when his new dog, Abby – who sleeps during the day, and grows huge fangs at night – turns out to be a crime-fighting, vampire dog.
