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  Sonia O'Sullivan - Great Irish...

  Natasha Mac a'Bháird

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  OLYMPIAN, WORLD CHAMPION RUNNER AND IRISH SPORTING LEGEND
  'Sonia walked to the start line with the other athletes, her tummy full of butterflies. She could feel the eyes of the crowd upon them. Sixty-five thousand people, all here to watch their race. She had dreamt about this moment for so long, and now it was here.'
  As a little girl, playing with her friends in Cobh, Co. Cork, Sonia O'Sullivan was known as the fastest runner. When she joined a running club and started to win races, she began to dream of the Olympic Games. Through her talent, dedication and her ability to get back up and dust herself down when things went wrong. Sonia went from an ordinary girl who loved to run to an extraordinary world class athlete.
  The story of one of Ireland's greatest ever athletes -- and a dream made real.

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  Finest Kind

  Lea Wait

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  WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Maine, the family leaves their large home in Boston and heads north, taking with them a few furnishings—and a deep family secret. In Maine they find only a dirty, isolated farmhouse, and a job for Father that takes him away from home."I'll have to depend on you," Jake's mother tells him. But how can Jake find food? How can he prepare for the dangerous cold of a Maine winter? How can he protect his mother—and his family's secret?Slowly, Jake learns the ways to survive, catching game and storing food for the long winter months. Nabby McCord, whose family also has a secret, helps him. So does Granny McPherson, who may be a witch. But when it comes to earning the money they need, Jake knows he's on his own. He shows his determination as the winter approaches, but does he have what it takes to bring his family together to face the future—and their past?Finest Kind is the powerful story of a boy who is forced to become a man and to learn the truth about courage, friendship, and secrets.

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  The Risky Rescue

  Eric Luper

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  In this action-packed tale, two friends are trapped in an Amazonian adventure novel and must find a golden idol if they wish to get home. 
   
  Cleo and Evan have a secret. A collection of books so dangerous they are locked up tight. And only they can find the keys to release the magic inside! 
   
  SURVIVING THE WILDERNESS IS ONLY HALF THE BATTLE! 
   
  A plane crash in the Amazon lands Cleo and Evan on the hunt for a valuable golden statue. They must find it—and their next key—to make it home alive. But the jungle is full of deadly creatures, raging rapids, and an all-too-familiar villain who wants nothing more than to trap them forever! 
   
  Praise for Key Hunters 
   
  “Luper’s delectable humor is appropriate for the intended age group, and the plot will keep readers’ attention to the end . . . [t]his is a satisfying read for beginning independent readers.” —School Library Journal

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  The Life of William McKinley -...

  Edward Stratemeyer

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  "The life of William McKinley affords a shining example to all American boys of what honesty, perseverance, and a strict attention to duty can accomplish. The twenty-fifth President of our Nation was born in a humble home, of humble parentage, and had to make his own way in life at an early age. When little more than a boy he taught school for a living, and at the age of eighteen he became a private in the army. He served through the whole of the great Civil War, and so faithful was he and so heroic that he became first a commissary sergeant, next a lieutenant, then a captain, and, finally, left the army a full-fledged major, twenty-two years old."

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  Blazing Courage

  Kelly Milner Halls, Phil Parks

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  Since getting a job at Top Tier stables, Annie has had her mind set on just one thing: earning enough money to buy a horse of her own. When she reaches her savings goal, she bids on a horse at an auction and buys Poco, a four-year-old Buckskin mare that Annie couldn't love more. But someone is trying to sabotage Top Tier, and a terrible fire breaks out at the stable. Annie must summon all her courage to save her beloved horse as well as many others in an act of heroism she didn't know she was capable of doing.

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  Lost in Gator Swamp

  Franklin W. Dixon

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  Frank and Joe have come to the Everglades to experience the thrills of the swampland rodeo. But the thrills turn to chills when they land in a swamp full of trouble. From sabotaged boats to quicksand traps to man-eating alligators, someone’s out to drown the Hardys in danger!The boys suspect a connection to a recent Miami heist, in which the fleeing crooks and all their loot vanished in the swamp. Now the Hardys’ investigation is about to lead them from the gator-infested everglades to a high-seas showdown...where they could end up swimming with the sharks!

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