Essential Books For 11-12 Children

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Percy Jackson pbk 5-book boxed set (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) By: Rick Riordan

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Product Description At last the wait is over! All five books in the blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympus series, in hardcover, have been collected in a box fit for demigods. This beautiful set includes the best-selling The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle ...

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Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) By: J. K. Rowling

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'The listener is clutched by the throat' Daily Express 'Stephen Fry is "the Potter perfect narrator" ' The Times...

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Holes (A Yearling Book) By: Louis Sachar

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"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place ...

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret By: Brian Selznick

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Book Description:Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth ...

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A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet) By: Madeleine L'Engle

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Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallac...

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The House of the Scorpion By: Nancy Farmer

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Fields of white opium poppies stretch away over the hills, and uniformed workers bend over the rows, harvesting the juice. This is the empire of Matteo Alacran, a feudal drug lord in the country of Opium, which lies between the United States and Aztlan,...

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler By: E. L. Konigsburg

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After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, ...

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The Giver By: Lois Lowry

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In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers...

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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything By: Bill Bryson

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The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set By: C. S. Lewis

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Narnia is the land of enchantment, glory, nobility--home to the magnificent Aslan, cruel Jadis (the White Queen), heroic Reepicheep, and kind Mr. Tumnus. All the magic of C.S. Lewis's Narnia, bewitching readers for almost 50 years, is captured for the fir...

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The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember (Books of Ember) By: Jeanne DuPrau

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It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, whic...

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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution By: Ji-Li Jiang

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Grade 5-9. This autobiography details the author's experiences as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution. Though wanting to be devoted followers of Chairman Mao, Jiang and her family are subjected to many indignities because her grandfather was once a ...

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards)) By: Phillip M. Hoose

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Starred Review. Grade 6 Up—In Montgomery, AL, in March 1955, 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested, and although she received some help from local civil rights leaders, they decided that the sometimes-volatile teen was not suitable to be the ...

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The Wanderer By: Sharon Creech

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"I am not always such a dreamy girl, listening to the sea calling me. My father calls me Three-sided Sophie: one side is dreamy and romantic; one is logical and down-to-earth; and the third side is hardheaded and impulsive." Thirteen-year-old Sophie, skipping between "dreamland or earthland or ...

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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Kelly, Jacqueline) By: Jacqueline Kelly

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Starred Review. Grade 5–8—A charming and inventive story of a child struggling to find her identity at the turn of the 20th century. As the only girl in an uppercrust Texas family of seven children, Calpurnia, 11, is expected to enter young womanhood with all its trappings of tight ...

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