The dream lives on

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Sharon Hambrick

Sanity left me. I cried out, "Oh, no!" I put my elbows on my desk and held my head in my hands. I shut my eyes to close out this awful day. I opened my eyes. I looked down and saw a pair of large black dress shoes standing beside my desk. Arby thinks he's all set for junior high, but right away he runs into dragons. That's what his homeroom teacher calls Selfishness and Fear and Pride. And just as he gets started on some serious dragonslaying, he has to face the suspicion that someone else wants to share his hero, Mr. Watson. - Back cover. In just seven weeks sixth-grader Arby will give the Honor Address at graduation, but first he has to survive spring baseball season, give an oral report on World War II, and figure out his strange neighbor, One-Armed Watson.

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Maureen Reynolds

Lizzie Flint learns things a young girl shouldn't know. During WWII, she learns that her father is missing in action, and she and her mother will have to live with her grandmother until he is found. Grown up, Lizzie develops an adventurous streak and travels to Hong Kong to take up a teaching post. She marries, but her husband is sent to Shanghai to report on the Japanese bombings - and Lizzie fears that, like her father, she will never see her husband again.

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Joan Betty Stuchner

David and his family live in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, until September 1943 when their neighbors help smuggle them to Sweden to escape Hitler's orders to send the Danish Jews to concentration camps.

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Kimberley Griffiths Little

Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.