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• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
• How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
• No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
• No, David! by David Shannon
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli
• There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
• Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• Harris and me : a summer remembered by Gary Paulsen
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• Tangerine by Edward Bloor
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
• Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Fourth Grade Rats (Apple Paperbacks) by Jerry Spinelli
• Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary
• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Invasion of the Boy Snatchers by Lisi Harrison
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
• Loser by Jerry Spinelli
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• The River by Gary Paulsen
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• Henry and the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
• The Jacket by Andrew Clements
• Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
• No Talking by Andrew Clements
• Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
• Double Fudge by Judy Blume
• Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
• Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
• My Life as a Book by Janet Tashjian
• The Young Man And The Sea by Rodman Philbrick
• Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
• Alabama Moon by Watt Key
• A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
• Ways To Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
• Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
• Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
• The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
• Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Swindle by Gordon Korman
• After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Superfudge by Judy Blume
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume
• Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
• Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
• Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli
• Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
• Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
• The Boy Book by E. Lockhart
• Deadline by Chris Crutcher
• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
• The Janitor's Boy by Andrew Clements
• Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Best Friends for Never by Lisi Harrison
• Summer Ball by Mike Lupica
• The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
• David Goes to School by David Shannon
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
• Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen
• A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
• Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
• King Dork by Frank Portman
• The Clique by Lisi Harrison
• Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
• If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
• Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
• Small Steps by Louis Sachar
• Notes From The Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
• How to Be Cool in the Third Grade (Chapter, Puffin) by Betsy Duffey
• The Revenge of the Wannabes by Lisi Harrison
• Big Nate: In a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce
• The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
• Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
• Survival by Gordon Korman
• The Contest by Gordon Korman
• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
• Skinnybones by Barbara Park
• Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
• Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!: The First Experiment… by Frances O'Roark Dowell
• How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay (The Tia Lola Stories) by Julia Alvarez
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• What Would Joey Do? by Jack Gantos
• Sealed with a Diss by Lisi Harrison
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
• The Cardturner by Louis Sachar
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• The Pretty Committee Strikes Back by Lisi Harrison
• Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
• Travel Team by Mike Lupica
• I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
• Edward's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
• Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
• Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
• The Kid Who Only Hit Homers by Matthew F Christopher
• Saint Iggy by K. L. Going
• Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters by Rachel Vail
• Mudshark by Gary Paulsen
• Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
• Otis Spofford by Beverly Cleary
• Guys Write for Guys Read by Jon Scieszka
• Brian's Hunt by Gary Paulsen
• Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
• Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
• Going Bovine by Libba Bray
• The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O'Connor
• Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt
• Every Soul A Star by Wendy Mass
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
• Ironman by Chris Crutcher
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• Lawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen
• The Big Field by Mike Lupica
• Shug by Jenny Han
• Totally Joe by James Howe
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Horrible Harry in Room 2B by Suzy Kline
• David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon
• Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce
• The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
• Invisible by Pete Hautman
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
• When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
• Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
• Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks
• Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote
• Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
• So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
• Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
• The Cartoonist by Betsy Byars
• The Batboy by Mike Lupica
• The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
• Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
• Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to… by Judith Viorst
• A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace
• Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• Niagara Falls, or Does It? by Henry Winkler
• Soup by Robert Newton Peck
• Flush by Carl Hiaasen
• Jack's Run by Roland Smith
• Replay by Sharon Creech
• Too Many Toys by David Shannon
• Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner
• Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
• Payback Time by Carl Deuker
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• Tracker by Gary Paulsen
• It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers by Louise Rennison
• Rascal by Sterling North
• The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
• Godless by Pete Hautman
• Rooftop by Paul Volponi
• Crackback by John Coy
• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
• Pop by Gordon Korman
• Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Absolutely, Positively Not... by David LaRochelle
• Marvin Redpost: Kidnaped at Birth? by Louis Sachar
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Swim the Fly by Don Calame
• A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith
• Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
• How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
• Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
• Firegirl by Tony Abbott
• Who Ran My Underwear Up The Flagpole? by Jerry Spinelli
• Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
• Doing It by Melvin Burgess
• Free Baseball by Sue Corbett
• The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
• Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Somewhere In The Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
• The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
• The Discovery by Gordon Korman
• The Landry News by Andrew Clements
• Strider by Beverly Cleary
• Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis
• Tornado by Betsy Byars
• What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
• Jake Drake: Bully Buster by Andrew Clements
• Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
• The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman
• The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
• Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica
• The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla
• Return of the Home Run Kid by Matt Christopher
• The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
• Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers by Megan McDonald
• Tears Of A Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
• Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry
• Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
• The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff
• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
• The Kid Who Ran For President by Dan Gutman
• Nasty, Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
• Right Behind You by Gail Giles
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
• Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
• Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
• Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
• Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
• Getting Air by Dan Gutman
• Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
• The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart
• Escape by Gordon Korman
• Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
• That Summer by Sarah Dessen
• As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Almost Starring Skinnybones by Barbara Park
• Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen
• The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting
• The Misfits by James Howe
• Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
• What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
• Charlie's Raven by Jean Craighead George
• The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
• Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
• It's Not Easy Being Mean by Lisi Harrison
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
• M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Guys Read: Funny Business by Jon Scieszka
• Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
• Listen! by Stephanie S. Tolan
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
• 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
• Taking Sides by Gary Soto
• The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
• Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent
• Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian
• Junebug by Alice Mead
• The Island by Gary Paulsen
• The Wall by Eve Bunting
• That Was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton
• Radio Fifth Grade by Gordon Korman
• Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
• How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
• Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
• Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
• Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
• Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter
• Boys Against Girls by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Boys Start the War (Boy/Girl Battle) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
• Donuthead by Sue Stauffacher
• Bystander by James Preller
• All Shook Up by Shelley Pearsall
• Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
• Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
• This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
• Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
• The Cupid Chronicles by Coleen Murtagh Paratore
• Wonder by R. J. Palacio
• Bratfest at Tiffany's by Lisi Harrison
• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
• Payback by Paul Langan
• Trash by Andy Mulligan
• The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
• Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
• Scat by Carl Hiaasen
• The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
• The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
• Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
• Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier
• The Bully by Anne E. Schraff
• The Wedding Planner's Daughter (The Wedding… by Coleen Murtagh Paratore
• Dogs Don't Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar
• Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
• The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
• Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Summit by Gordon Korman
• The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
• Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay
• Junie B., First Grader (at Last!) (Junie B. Jones, No. 18) by Barbara Park
• The Birthday Room by Kevin Henkes
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
• Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz
• Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
• Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. Stork
• Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• I Am NOT Going to School Today! by Robie H. Harris
• The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles
• Attaboy, Sam! by Lois Lowry
• All About Sam by Lois Lowry
• Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox
• This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• Honus & Me by Dan Gutman
• Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
• Horrible Harry and the Dungeon (Hoorible Harry (Room 2b)) by Suzy Kline
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
• Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
• Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
• Tex by S. E. Hinton
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
• Zoobreak by Gordon Korman
• Flash Burnout by L. K. Madigan
• Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
• Uptown by Bryan Collier
• A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
• Ready, Freddy! #01: Tooth Trouble by Abby Klein
• The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer
• On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E. L. Konigsburg
• Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book by Tom Angleberger
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Runner by Carl Deuker
• Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren (Junie B. Jones, No.… by Barbara Park
• When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry . . . by Molly Bang
• Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
• Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola
• 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
• Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
• The Secret School by Avi
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola
• Pick of the Litter by Bill Wallace
• Samir And Yonatan by Daniella Carmi
• The Climb (Everest #2) by Gordon Korman
• Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann
• The Danger by Gordon Korman
• Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor
• The Deep by Gordon Korman
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
• Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
• Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• Day of the Iguana by Henry Winkler
• America by E. R. Frank
• I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
• Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) by Lisa Yee
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
• High Heat by Carl Deuker
• Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
• Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• Boot Camp by Todd Strasser
• Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
• SilverFin by Charlie Higson
• Henry And Mudge And The Happy Cat by Cynthia Rylant
• Canyons by Gary Paulsen
• William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow
• Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
• The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman
• The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
• About the B'Nai Bagels by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Lucky Baseball Bat by Matt Christopher
• Bird by Angela Johnson
• Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
• Six Months to Live (Dawn Rochelle Series, Bk. 1) by Lurlene McDaniel
• Eleven by Lauren Myracle
• Return of the Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
• Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade by Denise Vega
• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
• Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard
• Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
• Strays by Ron Koertge
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
• Later, Gator by Laurence Yep
• Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson
• Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• I Am Not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
• The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume
• Before I die by Jenny Downham
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
• Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
• A Day's Work by Eve Bunting
• Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman by Dav Pilkey
• Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
• Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze by Alan Silberberg
• Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
• Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet by Graham Salisbury
• Mitch and Amy by Beverly Cleary
• Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
• How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart
• Elephant Run by Roland Smith
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
• Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney
• Monkey Island by Paula Fox
• Hot Hand by Mike Lupica
• Hard Drive to Short by Matt Christopher
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
• The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy by Jon Scieszka
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars
• The Boy Next Door (Candy Apple) by Laura Dower