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Breaking Through
Author: Francisco Jiménez   ISBN: 0618342486   /   Paperback Publisher: Houghton Mifflin   /   2002-10-01 List Price: $6.95
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimnez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican borde ... Read more
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A Summer Life
Author: Gary Soto   ISBN: 0440210240   /   Paperback Publisher: Laurel Leaf   /   1991-08-01 List Price: $6.50
Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew ... Read more
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Going Solo
Author: Roald Dahl   ISBN: 0141303107   /   Paperback Publisher: Puffin   /   1999-01-01 List Price: $6.99
The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting and frighteningly near-death experiences incl ... Read more
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Parallel Journeys
Author: Eleanor H Ayer  Helen Waterford  Alfons Heck   ISBN: 0689832362   /   Paperback Publisher: Aladdin   /   2000-03-01 List Price: $5.99
She was a young German Jew.He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth.This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II.Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But t ... Read more
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Diary of an Anorexic Girl
Author: Morgan Menzie   ISBN: 0849944058   /   Paperback Publisher: Thomas Nelson   /   2003-04-16 List Price: $12.99
Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs an ... Read more
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