Richies Picks: THE BEST OF 2005

Discover Richie's Picks: THE BEST OF 2005, featuring top book recommendations and standout reads from 2005. Explore curated literary gems and must-read titles for every book lover.

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A Room on Lorelei Street

by Mary E. Pearson

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a …
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Ball Don't Lie

by Matt de la Peña

Sticky, a beat-around-the-head foster kid, discovers that basketball may be his way out in this novel that takes place where the street and the court …
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Show way

 

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Day of Tears

by Julius Lester

Through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and space. They come to discover that …
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Full Service

by Will Weaver

In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict …
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A Certain Slant of Light

by Laura Whitcomb

In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes …
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Under the Persimmon Tree

by Suzanne Fisher Staples

During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's …
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The trouble begins

 

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Invisible

by Pete Hautman

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew …
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Black and White

by Paul Volponi

Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white. Stars of their …
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An Innocent Soldier

by Josef Holub

A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's …
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Spacer and Rat

by Margaret Bechard

Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit, the Earthie rat, enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in …
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