Claudia Mills
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Boogie Bass doesn't think he's very good at anything until he joins the American Sign Language camp at his school. He discovers he's a natural and when his class visits a school for the Deaf, he is able to form a bridge between his hearing classmates and the deaf students.
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Here's the third entry in Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that's...
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The two things that Wilson Williams likes best about 3rd grade are drawing and taking care of the class pet, Squiggles the hamster. What he likes the least are timed multiplication tests. Why think about all those numbers when he could be drawing pictures of Squiggles? With gentle humor, Claudia Mills works through a common childhood problem to a surprising resolution.
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Third-grader Kelsey Kline is determined to win the top reader award and lead her class to victory in the school-wide reading contest, but she struggles to deal with friends and classmates who don't want to participate and with know-it-all Simon Ellis, a good reader who may be lying about how many books he's read.
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Cody Harmon hates spelling, math, reading, and all subjects his teacher, poor Mrs. Molina, tries to teach him in third grade. However, on his farm, Cody has pets--lots of them. He loves animals. So, when there is a pet-show fundraiser at school, Cody knows it is his time to shine. However, there is a fee for entering each pet, and Cody can't enter all of his--but there is a clever solution where everyone wins.
12) Write this down
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"Twelve-year-old Autumn wants more than anything to be a real author, but when she wins a contest by writing something too personal about her brother, she has to decide if her dreams are more important than their relationship"--
13) Zero tolerance
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Seventh-grade honor student Sierra Shepard faces expulsion after accidentally bringing a paring knife to school, violating the school's zero-tolerance policy.
16) Gus and grandpa
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Gus and Grandpa have a loving, warm relationship.