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Vanessa’s favorite books

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F. Harley Jr. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys M. Hunt That Quail, Robert by Margaret A. Stanger Patty Reed's Doll by Rachel K. Laurgaard The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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The Black Orchid
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by Loreth Anne White (Goodreads Author)
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Vanessa’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Thing About Jellyfish (National Book Award Finalist)
The Thing About Jellyfish (National Book Award Finalist) by Ali Benjamin
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Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.
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Biography, Children's, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, and Young-adult


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