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Golden Dome 2022-2023
Read Where You Are: Summer Reading 2023 for Kids
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2022-2023 Master List
Read Where You Are: Summer Reading 2023 for Kids
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2022-2023 Master List
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. The anniversary edition includes original reviews of the novel, information about the author's life and work and the making of the story
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...
5) Say hello
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 25 cm.
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English
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Written when the author was ten years old, tells of a dog and a boy who are both lonely until they are included by others.
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When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
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Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins."--
9) Lost
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Publisher
Tate
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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After venturing outside to find someone to play with, an inquisitive black cat gets lost in the city. He dreams of finding his family again but convinced he has become invisible, will anyone come looking for him? Journey through stunning city and dreamscapes in an uplifting story of lost and found, hope and love.
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DeVorss Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
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1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Caspian lives alone in a lighthouse surrounded by the cold gray-blue sea, longing for a friend; so one day he puts a message in a bottle and floats it away in the sea--but the friend who finds it is someone completely unexpected.
12) Alone
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English
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DAML Staff Picks 2022
Golden Dome 2022-2023
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2022-2023 Master List
Golden Dome 2022-2023
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2022-2023 Master List
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Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
14) Fearless
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Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Kara hoped to spend the summer re-enacting episodes of her favorite TV show, Shinpi Rider, with her best friend Alice. But when Alice moves to a new home two towns over, everything changes. Alice mysteriously stops answering Kara's phone calls and letters. In order to reignite their friendship, Kara hatches a brave plan to bike over to Alice's new school all on her own. After all, A rider never leaves a friend behind! Kara's bravery on the journey...
15) Hello, Jimmy!
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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"A funny, noisy parrot comes into Jack's world and brings him closer to his dad in an unexpected and moving way"--
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