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1. Three Times Lucky
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Puffin BooksDescription
A Newbery Honor Book"An irresistible Southern narratora literary descendant of Scout Finch ofTo Kill a Mockingbird." Newsday
Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a caf owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous caf hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known.
Look for all the Mo & Dale Mysteries: The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing,The Odds of Getting Even, and The Law of Finders Keepers
* A wickedly awesome taleMo LoBeau is destined to become a standout character in childrens fiction.Kirkus Reviews, starred review
* Turnages lively novel features a distinctive voice and a community of idiosyncratic characters.Booklist, starred review
* "Here is a writer who has never met a metaphor or simile she couldn't put to good use."Publishers Weekly, starred review
2. The Hired Girl
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Winner of the 2016 Scott ODell Award for Historical FictionA 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Childrens and Young Adult Literature
Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herselfbecause maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream ofa woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joans journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
3. Splendors and Glooms
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Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud.The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisinis act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants.
Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute home. Clara seems to have everything they lack adoring parents, warmth, and plenty to eat. In fact, Claras life is shadowed by grief, guilt, and secrets. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall.
As they seek to puzzle out Claras whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisinis criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisinis ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before its too late.
Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitzs Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and the brilliant and bewitching storytelling that is her trademark.
4. Doll Bones
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Doll BonesDescription
Discover the Newbery Honor winner Doll Bones, from Holly Black, the cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book. A School Library Journal Best Book. A Booklist Editors Choice Books for Youth. A Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Book. A NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. A People Magazine Best New Kids Book. Six starred reviews!Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, theyve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a bone-china doll cursing those who displease her.
But they are in middle school now. Zachs father pushes him to give up make-believe, and Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares shes been having dreams about the Queenand the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave.
Zach and Alice and Poppy set off on one last adventure to lay the Queens ghost to rest. But nothing goes according to plan, and as their adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen. Is the doll just a doll or something more sinister? And if there really is a ghost, will it let them go now that it has them in its clutches?
Doll Bones is a winner of the Newbery Honor, is the recipient of six starred reviews, was on five Best Book lists, and was called perfect by The New York Times.
5. Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (2014-01-07)
6. Splendors and Glooms by Schlitz, Laura Amy (1st (first) Edition) [Hardcover(2012)]
7. Splendors and Glooms 1: Fog (Chinese Edition)
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This book is a historical fantasy novel by the contemporary American writer Laura Amy Schlitz. The background of the story is London in the Vitoria era in the nineteenth Century. On the 12-year-old birthday of doctor Mutter's daughter Clara, the puppet show master Glee Sidney is invited to make performance. His two apprentices are orphans, who admire Clara's family very much. In fact, Clara buries in her heart unknown sadness, guilt and secret. That night, Clara is missing. The suspect target points to the puppet master and the two apprentices. At this moment, misty mysteries are in London... With extraordinary imagination, this gothic black comedy creates a charming and stunning world of magic, which adds radiance and beauty to each other with the vivid description of reality. It is a influential work which can be compared with Charles Dickens' works.8. [(Splendors and Glooms )] [Author: Laura Amy Schlitz] [Mar-2014]
