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Jennifer Maruno
Full Series List in Order
Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom Winter (Sep-2012)Book List in Order: 14 titles
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When the Cherry Blossoms Fell
- Apr-2009
- / General Fiction
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Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children's Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birthday celebration. She doesn't know the government has ...
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Cherry Blossom Winter
- Sep-2012
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 10-year-old Michiko's family's possessions are confiscated and they are sent to a small community. After a former Asahi baseball star becomes her new teacher, life gets better. Baseball fever hits town, and when Mic...
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Not Part of the Pie
- Jan-2013
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Etienne is called on an adventure in the new world… In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure far from his family farm in Quebec. He meets an orphan destined to apprentice among the Jesuits at Fort Sainte-Marie. Making the mos...
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Kid Soldier
- Sep-2013
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2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award -- ShortlistedA boy is thrown into the middle of history’s biggest war.Fatherless and penniless, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller wants a bike, so Mr. Black, the baker hires him to help with deliveries. Mr. Black ent...
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Cherry Blossom Baseball
- Jan-2016
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CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Spring 2016) -- CommendedIs pretending to be someone else the only way Michiko can fit in? Michiko Minigawa’s life is nothing but a bad game of baseball. The Canadian government swung the bat once, knocki...
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Moose's Roof
- Mar-2017
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Until he discovered a park pavilion, Moose never knew life beneath a roof. His friends Beaver, Bear and Squirrel, however, all seemed to be roof experts. Moose decides to put his antlers to good use. With his friends' help, he soon has a permanent ro...
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Until Niagara Falls
- Feb-2020
- / General Fiction
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Finalist, Hamilton Literary AwardIs friendship supposed to feel like walking over the falls?Brenda is afraid of heights, being in the dark, and dog poop. Then she meets daring, rule-breaking Maureen and realizes their friendship is a bit like walking...
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While You Sleep
- Nov-2022
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In a collage-filled world in which a child’s beloved toy rabbits come to life to hang the stars and polish the sun, Jennifer Maruno and Miki Sato create a rhyming bedtime tale that is full of depth and rich color. ...
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Momma's Going to March
- Aug-2024
- / General Fiction
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We’re going to a peaceful protest because … Momma’s going to march! Momma’s Going to March follows several children over time as they accompany their mothers to different peaceful protest marches, where they advocate for the e...
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Broom for Two
- Sep-2024
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Friendship and empathy charm as a little witch learns to fly on a not-so-perfect broom.While practicing for her flying test, Little Witch sometimes forgets her broom in places she shouldn't. By the time she finds her broom in the woods by Ramshackle ...
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The Go-Between
- Sep-2024
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Twelve-year-old Sumi, a Japanese Canadian girl living in Vancouver in 1926, takes her older sister's place working at Gibson's Landing so that Yoshi can go summer school to become a dressmaker. Dealing with unfamiliar customs and the racism of the ti...
