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Jan Slepian
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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Getting on with It
- Nov-1985
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A fourteen-year-old resents her exile to her grandmother's for the summer while her parents arrange their divorce, but her friendship with a neighbor and the secret they uncover help her come to terms with her changing life....
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The Broccoli Tapes
- 1988
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LETTERS HOME Sara had been happy back home in Boston. She fit in -- she had friends and knew the ropes at school. Then her family moved to Hawaii for five months. Her parents think she'll enjoy it, that it will broaden her. She doesn't and it won...
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Risk 'n Roses
- Oct-1990
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In 1948, newly-moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who sems to run the neighborhood....
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Risk N' Roses
- Aug-1992
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Ring around the roses...we all fall down. It is summer in the city, and the sights, smells, and sounds beckon Skip to join in on the fun. From her front porch Skip can see Mr. Kaminsky's roses and Jean, a girl who appears to be her own age and ful...
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Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant
- May-1993
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The food-loving monster is back in a welcome sequel to the all-time favorites The Hungry Thing and The Hungry Thing Returns. Freem's fantastical illustrations enhance the absurdity and humor in this fun-filled fantasy. Full color....
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Back to Before
- Jun-1993
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Two cousins who have each lost a parent--one to divorce, the other to a heart attack--are swept into a time warp that takes them back in time when Linny's mother was still alive and Hilary's father lived at home....
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Pinocchio's Sister
- Apr-1995
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Martha joins forces with Stashu, a young Polish acrobat, to get rid of her ventriloquist father's dummy, a pretty wooden doll named Iris, when it appears that the mysteriously powerful Iris is replacing Martha in her father's life....
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The Mind Reader
- Sep-1997
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The show must go on! Growing up on the vaudeville circuit, twelve-year-old Connie Leondar knows that. So when his father, The Amazing Mind Reader Leondar, can't go on-stage one night, Connie dons his father's turban and goes on for him.
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Emily Just in Time
- Apr-1998
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Although Emily is growing up quite fast--pouring her own milk and going down the twisty slide--she still cannot spend the whole night at her grandma's because of her fear of the dark and the unfamiliar surroundings....
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