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Seventh Grade

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than the sun. Me.

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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Concealed

"A concealed door could be a very useful thing to a girl of her particular occupation." —SERAFINA AND THE BLACK CLOAK by Robert Beatty

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He’s Inside

Book cover for The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

It could have been a trick of the light, but it looked like something was moving just inside the door frame. Something dark. Something tall. Something she did not want to be there.

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

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Something New

"Rook had tried to explain it to her, that a door meant risk—abandoning safe, familiar places for something new. Piling your hopes at the threshold and waiting to see if the world beyond would stomp all over them." —DOOR TO THE LOST by Jaleigh Johnson

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Front Door

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

Violet could not help thinking that it would be far more pleasant to live in Justice Strauss’s house instead of Count Olaf’s. What kind of a man, Violet wondered, would carve an image of an eye into his front door?

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

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Grown Up

"I had never quite understood the dividing line between not being grown up and being grown up. It seemed as though there was some invisible doorway a person walked through and when he came out on the other side he was supposed to be all that he had been before, except more." —SEES BEHIND TREES by Michael Dorris

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Main Entrance

"As he passed through the main entrance of the mansion, Dan glanced up at the stone crest above the door—a large C surrounded by four smaller designs—a dragon, a bear, a wolf, and two snakes entwined around a sword." —THE MAZE OF BONES by Rick Riordan

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May Day!

"It was May Day! When they were little, she and Thomas always made May baskets from construction paper and filled them with tissue-paper flowers. They'd sneak over to Mr. Pickering's front poorch, hang the baskets on his doorknob, then ring the doorbell. Before Mr. Pickering answered, they would run home. Mr. Pickering always pretended not to know who had left the surprise." —GIANT PUMPKIN SUITE by Melanie Heuiser Hill

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Favorite Time of Year

"Autumn—Halloween especially—was her favorite time of year. She was determined to enjoy it properly, even if her family was moving. But as the trees whizzed by in an orange-and-ruby fury, Tennie's nerves couldn't settle." —A TOUCH OF RUCKUS by Ash Van Otterloo

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Out of the Orange

"Lots of things made Leandra grumpy lately, especially changes out of the blue. Or in this case, orange." —ONE DAY AND ONE AMAZING MORNING ON ORANGE STREET by Joanne Rocklin

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