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  The Hardworking Farmer

  Nila

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  Once there was a farmer. 
  Every day, he woke up before the sun and walked out to his fields. 
  He planted each seed with care, one by one, row after row. 
  Then he watered the soil and wiped the sweat from his eyebrows. 
  Some days were hot. Some were cold. Some were quiet. 
  But the farmer never stopped working. 
  He checked each plant, pulled out weeds, and watched the clouds overhead. 
  He smiled when he saw tiny green sprouts rising from the ground. 
  Even when the days were long and his back ached, the farmer kept going. 
  Because he believed in something… 
  Something that only time and a little patience could bring.

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  Only One of Me: A Love Letter...

  Lisa Wells

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  Only One of Me is the product of Lisa’s lifelong love of writing and friendship with award-winning children’s author Michelle Robinson. The two collaborated on this tender and moving rhyming poem, with charming illustrations by Tim Budgen, which is both a love letter to Lisa’s own daughters and a testament to the unwavering strength of parental love, a timeless message for families facing the challenges of bereavement.
  
  The Only One of Me project grew from Lisa’s determination to leave a lasting legacy for her daughters and her desire to help other families rally against the difficulties of loss. Her activities have raised thousands for charity and huge public support through JustGiving has enabled the publication of these beautiful books. Sadly Lisa passed away in August 2019.

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  Not Quite a Ghost

  Anne Ursu

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  Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by the Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, and NPR! 
  From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us—and the ones we carry inside. 
  The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet’s group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn’t enough for Violet’s best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. 
  That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill—and does not get better. As days turn into weeks without any improvement, her family growing more confused and her friends wondering if she’s really sick at all, she finds herself spending more time alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper, the shadows moving in the corners, wrapping themselves around her at night.  
  And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all.

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  How to Catch an Elf

  Adam Wallace

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  It’s Christmas Eve. Your traps are set. 
   
  You’ve made your secret plans. 
   
  And now I’m coming to your house. 
   
  SO CATCH ME, IF YOU CAN!

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  Seeds Of Faith

  Cherice TyRhonda Peagler

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  Seeds of Faith is a story that demonstrates faith being demonstrated in a puppy with one weak leg. The puppy named Faith was overlooked due to not being able to run and jump like the other puppies. The main character, Cameron, is a child that believed in Faith and helped Faith to jump into his next season of life. 
  Seeds of Faith reminds the reader that delayed does not mean denied. Sometimes it takes work to get what you desire in life since faith without works is dead. The reader is reminded to not give up on self and your positive beliefs. How a person thinks can play a major role in the outcome.

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  The Lost Deer Camp

  Lane Walker

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  *** 2014 Winner Bronze Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series *** Tucker Thompson is just an ordinary 8th grader from Detroit, Michigan. He loves school and baseball. Everything seems great for the left-handed pitcher with a big, breaking curveball.  That is, until one dreadful event changes his life. Tucker learns that his parents are getting divorced. If that wasn’t bad enough, his mom is making a move. He will be forced to attend a new school, across town in the inner city of Detroit.  Struggling to handle his anger, Tucker does the only thing he can think of to get his parent’s attention: cause trouble. Not everyone at his new school finds him entertaining, especially the principal, Mr. David. After pulling off the prank of the century, Tucker gets kicked out of school and shipped off to live with his Uncle Ed and Aunt Loretta in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  The U.P. is a far cry from the concrete jungle of Detroit. But Tucker quickly realizes there is something magical and mysterious about Uncle Ed’s place. He is warned early and often by his uncle to never venture into the West Woods.  But why? Is Uncle Ed hiding something? One day, Tucker discovers a creepy, old sign—one final warning of danger. What he finds hidden in the woods will change his life forever!

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