Patricia Polacco
4) Emma Kate
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Emma Kate and her best friend share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time, all the things best friends do. But there is more to this best friend than meets the eye.
7) Pink and Say
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Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
8) Thunder cake
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Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
10) The butterfly
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During the Nazi occumpation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
14) John Philip Duck
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During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.
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Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.