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The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
12) How to bee
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Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine, and bees must be ten, Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything she...
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"Nadia looks for adventure in the pages of her Superman comic books until a mysterious boy saves her dog from drowning and then disappears. Now she is determined to follow in the footsteps of her hero Lois Lane and uncover the identity of the Invisible Boy. But the scoop takes Nadia into the shadows of her neighborhood on a real-life adventure that turns out to be far more dangerous than her favorite superhero stories. The truth of the Invisible Boy...
15) Factory girl
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The history of child labor is illustrated using actual photographs and factual accounts of working conditions in the United States. The story of a fictional girl, Emily, is included to bring the desperate working conditions of these children to life.
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They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. Then Khadija comes, the first girl who has ever come to camp, and shes a wild thing. She fights, but the bosses break her. Now the three band together as...