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Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.

Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school, until now.

The author describes how dogs have impacted his life from childhood through the present day, recounting the stories of his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.

The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.

Re-creates the voice of Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard to provide an account of his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins.

Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.

Young Ren, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is adopted by Benjamin Nab, a con artist who brings Ren into a strange underworld filled with seedy characters, including an assassin that the pair encounters on a mission to procure corpses for a scientist, who informs Ren that he was made for killing.

Presents a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the Vietnam War experiences of the men of Alpha Company, beginning with a meditation on the things carried by each soldier, practical and personal, as they make their way through the theater of war.

Middle-schooler Julian explains why he was so mean to his classmate Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, when Auggie entered a Manhattan public school after being homeschooled.

In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.