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Flying Changes

Lynn Hall

Seventeen-year-old Denny and her family face hard times when her father is injured on the rodeo circuit.

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A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.

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Ring of Bright Water

Gavin Maxwell

An account of the author's life on the northwest coast of Scotland describing his constant companions Mijbil and Edal, the otters, and other animals who shared his life there.

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Out of Africa ; And, Shadows On the Grass

Isak Dinesen

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

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Up Country

Alden R. Carter

When his mother's drinking problem causes him to spend several months with country relatives in upstate Wisconsin, sixteen-year-old Carl begins to build a new life for himself, only to see it threaten

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