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Katherine. Paterson
(516,310)
Summary: Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone.
BOOK
Call #: J F PATERSON
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Virginia Hamilton
(4,203)
Summary: As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
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Matt de la Peña
(16,519)
Summary: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How...
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Neil Gaiman
(507,008)
Summary: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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by
Sharon Creech
(163,469)
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F CREECH
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Madeleine L'Engle
Series:
Murry Family Time Quintet - #1
(1,144,573)
Summary: Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
BOOK
Call #: J F L'ENGLE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Madeleine L'Engle
(1,148,110)
Summary: Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Madeleine L'Engle
(1,135,215)
Summary: Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Summary: Reissued each year, The Newbery and Caldecott Awards provides a complete listing of winners from the awards' inceptions in 1922 (Newbery Medal) and 1938 (Caldecott Medal). Each edition also includes...
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Call #: 011.62 NEW 2016
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,129,440)
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his...
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Call #: YA F SACHAR
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,132,741)
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his...
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BOOK
Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Katherine Applegate
(172,605)
Summary: When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Esther Forbes
(46,337)
Summary: Johnny Tremain, a silversmith's apprentice, takes part in the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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Kate DiCamillo
(47,910)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Esther Forbes (read by Grace Conlin )
(46,337)
Summary: Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with Otis, Hancock, and John and Samuel Adams in the exciting operations and subterfuges that lead up to the Boston Tea...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F FORBES
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sharon Creech
(163,469)
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
BOOK
Call #: J F CREECH
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jean Craighead George
Series:
Julie Series
(58,392)
Summary: While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
BOOK
Call #: J F GEORGE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lois Lowry
Series:
Giver Quartet - #1
(2,267,007)
Summary: Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver,...
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Call #: YA F LOWRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Lois Lowry (read by Christina Moore )
(533,375)
Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F LOWRY
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Russell Freedman
(10,541)
Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
BOOK
Call #: J B LINCOLN
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
(321,402)
Summary: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but...
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BOOK
Call #: J F O'DELL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carol Ryrie Brink
(50,906)
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
BOOK
Call #: J F BRINK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jean Lee Latham
(17,718)
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
BOOK
Call #: J F LATHAM
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert C O'Brien
Series:
Rats Of NIMH Series
(173,977)
Summary: Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
BOOK
Call #: J F O'BRIEN
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marguerite De Angeli
(17,574)
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
BOOK
Call #: J F DE ANGELI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Patricia MacLachlan (read by Glenn Close)
Series:
Sarah Plain And Tall Series
(83,164)
Summary: From the beginning when Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother, to the time in the city during the drought, and further adventures of life on the prairie. Includes an interview with the author.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F MACLACHLAN
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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E. L Konigsburg
(45,407)
Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Karen Hesse
(74,539)
Summary: In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
BOOK
Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kate DiCamillo
(47,910)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
(4,541)
Summary: In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
BOOK
Call #: J F LEWIS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kate DiCamillo
(47,910)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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BOOK
Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kate DiCamillo
(47,910)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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E. L. Konigsburg
(204,808)
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Madeleine L'Engle
(1,148,277)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and...
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Scott O'Dell
Summary: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F O'DELL
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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