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A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
Richard Peck
★★★★★· Published 1998· 148 pages
A boy and his sister spend summers with their larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel in small-town Illinois. So funny.
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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
Megan Whalen Turner
A quest fantasy narrated by a cocky young thief, and then that ending. I did not see it coming.
★ 5A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe loses everything and holds onto her kindness anyway. I loved it fiercely as a kid, and it still gets me.
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
Meg travels across the universe to rescue her father, armed with love and stubbornness. A childhood favorite that holds up.