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"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
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Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
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"Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern first lady who never wrote a memoir ... Drawing on a wealth of sources from Life magazine to accounts by Nixon's daughter and his doctor to The Haldeman diaries and Jonathan Schell's The time of illusion, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view."--Dust jacket flap.
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Thirteen-year-old John "Houdini" Smith tries to write a book about what is happening in his life, from his parents' worries about money and his brother in Iraq, to his new understandings of people while he and his friends rake lawns in their East Side Providence, Rhode Island neighborhood.