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• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

  Glaser, Karina Yan,

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  Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.

• Absolutely Truly

  Frederick, Heather Vogel,

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  Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter.

• The Wolf Wilder

  Rundell, Katherine,

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  From the author of Impossible Creatures comes an epic journey of a girl, a boy and wolves on a rescue mission in the days before the Russian Revolution.

• Greenglass House

  Milford, Kate,

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  At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way Past Winter

  Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-

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  Mila lives with her sisters, Pipa and Sanna, her brother Oskar, and their sled dogs in the forest where winter has held sway for five years, ever since their father disappeared; but now a strange scary man, flanked by twelve young boys, seems to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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  Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

• Stone Fox

  Gardiner, John Reynolds

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  Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

• Snow & Rose

  Martin, Emily Winfield,

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  Snow and Rose search the forest for their missing father and discover there is a sinister magic at work in the woods. A reimagining of the classic but little-known fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red .

• Juniper's Christmas

  Colfer, Eoin,

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  Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.

• Winterhouse

  Guterson, Ben,

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  Eleven-year-old Elizabeth discovers a magical book of puzzels which leads her to discover the secrects of Winterhouse hotel.

• The Poet's Dog

  MacLachlan, Patricia,

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  A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.

• Brian's Winter

  Paulsen, Gary

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  Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

• The Song of Orphan's Garden

  Hewitt, Nicole M.,

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  In a rapidly freezing world, thirteen-year-old Lyriana and her younger brother believe their only hope for survival is to find the legendary Orphan's Garden, while Brob, the Giant boy who created the garden, must overcome his distrust of humans to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cabin Fever

  Kinney, Jeff

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  Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence.

• The Meltdown

  Kinney, Jeff,

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  When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.

• Winter Blunderland

  Patterson, James, 1947-

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  When Rafe Khatchadorian goes on a trip to Alaska, he's in for a blundering adventure that includes building igloos, racing across icebergs, and coming face-to-face with a polar bear.