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Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Girls Juvenile fiction Mermaids Fiction Mystery and detective stories Nature stories New Orleans (La.) History 19th century Fiction Ocean Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction Yellow fever Louisiana New Orleans 19th century FictionBeaumont, Mary Richards
Summary: When best friends Aggie and Fiona drift apart in fifth grade, Aggie grows to understand that fading friendships are normal, and she makes a new friend who shares more of her interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2017
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Summary: Encouraged by her friend Marie-Grace, Cecile finds a way to help her beloved city, New Orleans, in the aftermath of the 1853 yellow fever epidemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: Volunteering with her friend Cecile at a crowded New Orleans orphanage during the yellow fever epidemic of 1853, Marie-Grace discovers that it is not just the orphans who need help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREHaas, Jessie.
Summary: Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HAACopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: When Gabby's beloved community arts center is threatened with closure, she makes a plan to use her spoken word poetry to overcome her stutter and save Liberty Arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: Looking forward to swimming lessons before finding out that she will have to put her face underwater, a little girl tells her doll, Bitty Baby, a story about a brave little duckling who teaches his brothers and sisters that practice makes perfect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LarPatrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATPatrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: An affluent black family fights against illness and death when a terrible outbreak of yellow fever strikes New Orleans in the summer of 1853.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREKurtz, Jane.
Summary: Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KURTripp, Valerie
Summary: Elizabeth Cole and her best friend, Felicity, are "the merriest girls in Virginia". The merry friends think it's very funny to play tricks on Elizabeth's snobby older sister, Annabelle. When Annabelle Bananabelle becomes engaged, Elizabeth and Felicity's mischief heats up, until Elizabeth finds herself in big trouble!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREHaas, Jessie.
Summary: Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, helps fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and sparks an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HAACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEFalligant, Erin.
Summary: The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will cope with her fear of swimming in lakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AG BucBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: In 1935, while preparing to write a newspaper story about a theater production of Macbeth in her hometown of Cincinnati, twelve-year-old Kit discovers that a thief is stealing from the box office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2008
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Summary: The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: When Julie and Ivy visit a wildlife rescue center after finding a baby owl in Golden Gate Park, they learn about two eagles who need help before they can be released back into the wild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDReiss, Kathryn.
Summary: In 1970s San Francisco, Julie and her best friend Ivy learn about Chinese immigration in the early twentieth century when they investigate a mysterious doll theft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC REISchur, Maxine
Summary: The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PLEAS 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCHShaw, Janet Beeler
Summary: Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMGLP 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SHATripp, Valerie
Summary: "Camille loves the ocean, the warm sand, the pretty shells, and the sparkling waves that tickle her toes. Sometimes she even imagines that she's a mermaid with whales and dolphins for friends! When the other WellieWishers see how much Camille misses her summers by the sea, they want to help, but how can four girls turn a garden into an ocean?"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2017