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books in the Deubrook School Library: Non-fiction In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke. This story tells how a young woman is compelled to help Jews hide in order to escape death during the Holocaust, knowing full well that it may cause her own. Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang. The Cultural Revolution of China made life difficult for young Ji Li Jiang and her family and friends. Learn how she survived this difficult part of her life. Fiction Spider Sparrow by Dick King-Smith. Spider is unusual but deeply loved by his adoptive parents. Others think that he has no talents, but his parents' love makes him recognize and develop his abilities. Spider lives life with zest and enthusiasm. Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm. Tomboy May Amelia grows up as the only daughter in a family of 7 brothers. Her life is a series of adventures with her brothers, sometimes funny and sometimes touching. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck. A young Shaker boy is given a piglet from a grateful farmer neighbor after he helps the farmer's cow give birth. Robert loves his pig and dreams of taking it to the fair to win first prize. Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen. Charley Goddard enlists in the Civil War by walking to Fort Snelling and lying about his age. He goes off a boy with grand visions of war and returns a man with a "soldier's heart."
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