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63) Not that I care
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As she waits to present the ten items that she has chosen for an assignment to represent who she is, seventh-grader Morgan Miller recalls the events in her life that led to her choices.
65) In the spotlight
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When Kit's pageant rival Melody loses her rabbit, Ellie believes she can build a contraption to catch him, but she begins to doubt herself when Melody insists that a pageant is no place for messy engineering experiments.
66) Switch play!
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When Ted's twin sister Lisa, a fullback on the 'Cats soccer team, gets attention for her special move on the field, Ted determines to come up with an outstanding play also.
68) Squarehead
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George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be.
69) The Laura line
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When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's Texas farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
72) On pointe
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In this novel written in free verse, Clare and her grandfather must deal with changes in their lives when Clare's summer growth spurt threatens to end her dream of becoming a ballet dancer and her grandfather suffers a stroke.
75) Hooray for me!
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Explores an individual's relationship to family, friends, and even pets.
78) In the mirror
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"This short story inspires pride and confidence in children by showing the simple beauty of imagining greatness for oneself"--
79) Finding family
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Young Delana is brought up by her grandfather and Aunt Tilley, who keeps her from experiencing a normal life. After Aunt Tilley dies, Delana searches for answers in antique photographs and Tilley's ficticious stories about her unknown father and family. Includes black-and-white reproductions of antique photos.
80) al-Ānīsah roaʻā
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Miss Splendid lives in a mansion with a golden bathtub and thinks she is better than everyone else. When she goes to town and sees a new hat in the window of a store that she simply must have, she buys it. When she's walking home, her friends ask her if she wants to take the bus and she refuses. It starts to rain and it ruins her new hat, but she feels better afterwards when she gets home and sees herself in the mirror.