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Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Call Number: Fic G211d
ISBN: 9780374379933
Publication Date: 2011
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Call Number: Fic L185i
ISBN: 0061962783
Publication Date: 2011
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator) In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Call Number: Fic Y43b
ISBN: 0805092161
Publication Date: 2011