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Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, and then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
63) Nellie's promise
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned, Nellie and her two younger sisters find hope when Samantha's family in New York City wants to adopt the girls, but when Uncle Mike shows up and threatens to ruin it all, Nellie must find a way to keep her promise to her dying mother without losing her new family.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
68) Julie's journey
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
To celebrate the country's bicentennial, Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train which is filled with adventures, challenges, and self discovery.
Author
Series
American girls collection [Julie] volume 1
American girls 1974 volume 1
American girls collection. 1974 volume 1
American girls 1974 volume 1
American girls collection. 1974 volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
73) Chrissa
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Chrissa starts fourth grade at a new school, some of the girls in her class play mean tricks on her, but when their teasing of another girl, Gwen, goes too far, Chrissa knows that she has to do something about it.
75) Rebecca and Ana
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Rubin worries that her tenth birthday will be ruined because it falls during Passover, but her mother's cousin Max, an actor, takes her with him to a movie studio, where she makes friends with an actress and a set carpenter.
78) Aloha, Kanani
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.
79) Cécile's gift
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Now that the yellow fever epidemic is over, the people of New Orleans raise money to care for the orphans, and Cécile seeks to discover something special she can to do help.
80) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.
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