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Book Safari -- Children's Literature Database
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384 book reviews found, page 1 of 77. Narrow results by selecting age range:
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100-year-old secret
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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When Xena and Xander Holmes move to London, they find out that they are descendants of the detective Sherlock Holmes. They get his old casebook and they decide to solve as many of his unsolved cases as they can, starting with the case of a painting that went missing a hundred years before.
Similar books: The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery (Nancy Springer), The London Eye Mystery (Siobhan Dowd)
Date read: 10/15/2008
ISBN: 0805083405
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11 Birthdays
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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Amanda and Leo used to be best friends. They were born on the same day and celebrated every birthday together. Then Leo was mean at their tenth birthday party and they haven't spoken since. Amanda's eleventh birthday ends up being terrible, but what's worse is when she wakes up the next day, it's her eleventh birthday all over again! Morning after morning she wakes up on her birthday, and it doesn't matter what she does differently--she repeats the same day over and over again. Find out if Amanda figures out why this is happening to her and how to make it stop... or if she's doomed to repeat the same day for the rest of her life!
Date read: 3/14/2009
ISBN: 0545052394
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A Friendship for Today
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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It's 1954 and Rosemary's school is being integrated. In the fall she won't be at her old elementary school with only black students, but will go to the 6th grade at a formerly all-white school. If that weren't difficult enough, she also has to cope with her best friend getting really sick and her parents fighting all the time. And when she starts school, she has to sit next to Grace Hamilton, who's from one of the msot racist families in town. With so much on her plate, it's sure to be a year with a lot of ups and downs for Rosemary.
Date read: 2/9/2010
ISBN: 043966098X
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Abduction!
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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13-year-old Bonnie always meets her little brother Matt after kindergarten so they can ride the bus home together. One day Matt isn't in their usual meeting spot. Bonnie starts to worry and asks Matt's teacher if she saw anything unusual. Matt went to the restroom at the end of the day and never returned to his classroom, his teacher assumed he just got right on the bus. Everyone hopes that Matt just wandered off or went home with a friend, but Bonnie and her mom begin to suspect something much worse when the family's old dog, Pookie, is also missing.
Date read: 1/15/2005
ISBN: 0525472940
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Abernathy Boys
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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Nine-year-old Bud and his five-year-old brother Temp dream of traveling through the Old West by horse. Their dreams come true when their dad, U.S. Marshall 'Catch-em-alive' Jack Abernathy gives them permission to go on a journey to the legendary Goodnight Ranch. It's 1909 so the West is still pretty wild and the boys have many adventures involving rattlesnakes, quicksand, and mirages. Based on a true story, this tale of the Abernathy brothers is quite exciting.
Date read: 06/02/2004
ISBN: 0064409538
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