The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

"My brother Wilbert tells me that I'm like a grain of sand in an oyster."

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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to probe her worth when an enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.

Antheneum Books; 204 pages

Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst

"There once was a girl named Lulu, and she was a pain."

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Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 113 pages

Missing in Action by Dean Hughes

"Jay Thacker was standing by the backstop."

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While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Antheneum Books, 228 pages