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The Newbery Award-winning novel

From the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind comes her most beloved story of a girl's coming of age.

After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

Here's to You, Rachel Robinson by Judy Blume

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

Libby on Wednesday by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Just as Long as We're Together by Judy Blume

It's Not the End of the World by Judy Blume

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

Tex by S. E. Hinton

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt