Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington
Little, Brown and Company
280p.
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
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Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Charlesbridge2010
272 pgs.
Summary
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
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