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The Lost Boy's gift

After his parents' divorce, nine-year-old Daniel must move across the country with his mom and start life over. New friends, he finds to his surprise, are easy to come by on While-a-Way Lane, including the Lemonade Girl, the mailman who loves hopscotch, tiny creatures, and Tilda Butter, whose gift of looking and listening closely may help Daniel find a new way in life.
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Lies I told

Since Grace was adopted by the Fontaines, she has been carefully taught the art of the scam and has an uncanny ability to create a personality to help her "parents," but their latest job has her questioning everything she has been taught and the family she has grown to love.
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When Christmas feels like home

When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
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Watch you burn

Jenny, seventeen, moves to small-town New Mexico with her father after police nearly discover she is an arsonist but her urge to start fires persists, and she konws she is being watched.
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A season of gifts

Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
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Six impossible things

2015
Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
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Golden

When her family moves to Oklahoma from California, high school sophomore Lissy uses her ability to see other people's auras to try to uncover and stop the sinister activities of a teacher at her new school.
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The house on the hill

Sarita, upset when her new husband purchases a home without first consulting her, becomes even more distraught when he undergoes a drastic personality change after they move in.
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Bunny and Bird are best friends

Bird and Bunny are two best friends who do everything together. But when Bird and her family move away, Bunny is left all alone until he learns that even when a best friend moves away, there are new friends to be made.
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Drat! You copycat!

Katie, an ordinary third-grader who is sometimes touched by a magical wind that turns her into other people, gains insights into the thinking of a new girl at school who is trying to fit in by doing all the wrong things.
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