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After the tragic death his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house. Then he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates...
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All four Bird children have an idyllic childhood. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all. But then something happens that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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A team of well-intentioned mice saves a friend from hoarding too much stuff.
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