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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Magic or not?

When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.

Far from fair

Odette Zyskowski, a girl who likes keeping lists, starts a new one: Things That Aren't Fair. At the top is having to live on the road in a cramped RV with her annoying young brother, Rex, while they and their parents go on a long road trip to Grandma Sissy's. However, when they arrive, Odette learns what it truly means for something to be unfair, and learns that even though some things are out of her control, she can still try to make things right.

Anna was here

Anna Nickel is a young girl who loves things just the way they are--so when she gets word that her parents are planning on moving the family from Colorado to Kansas, and the school year isn't even over yet, she understandably gets upset. Now Anna will have to handle a new school, cousins she has never met, a lost pet, strange new classmates and townspeople, and small-town church potlucks.

From there to here

A little girl moves from rural Saskatchewan to urban Toronto when her father takes a job building a highway. The girl feels like everything is different in the new place until she finds a friend her age.

Fire on ice

1998
The reader must determine the course of an adventure in which a dedicated hockey player moves to a little town in Massachusetts and must decide whether to sign up for the school team or with the renegade team coached by a former professional player.

Pemba's song

a ghost story
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a girl who was once a slave in her house.

The secret path

2015
Disregarding a warning that the town of Springfield is called "Spooksville" for a good reason, newcomer Adam accompanies his friends to a secret path at the graveyard that is said to lead to other, more terrifying worlds.

A blind guide to normal

After spending his last year at Addison School for the Blind, Ryder will need his sense of humor to help him make the transition to eighth grade at Papuaville Middle School where he is now enrolled to accommodate his parents' new jobs.

The Quirks

welcome to Normal
2014
With its cookie cutter houses, welcoming committees, and all-town competitions, Normal, Michigan, seems like a perfect fit for nine-year-old new resident Molly, the only non-magical person in her family.

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