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Candace Fleming
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Summary: From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner--and a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. When Russia's last tsar,...
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by
Candace Fleming
(11,098)
Summary: From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner--and a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. When Russia's last tsar,...
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Candace Fleming
(11,098)
Summary: From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner--and a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. When Russia's last tsar,...
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Call #: 947 FLE YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Paul Fleischman
(427)
Summary: "We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries,...
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Call #: 363.7 FLE YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Eric Greitens
(1,141)
Summary: An adaptation of 'The heart and the fist' for teens.
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Call #: 359.984 GRE YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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John Hersey
(74,441)
Summary: On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories...
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Call #: 940.5425 HER YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Anne Frank
(3,466,090)
Summary: Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent...
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Call #: B FRANK YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Koren Zailckas
(24,202)
Summary: The author describes her abuse of alcohol.
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Call #: B ZAILCKAS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Krystyna Poray Goddu
(81)
Summary: "Tracing Millay's life from her youth in Maine to the bohemian fervor of her early adulthood in Greenwich Village and Paris to the demanding existence of a public personality, this fascinating...
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Call #: B MILLAY YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Don Mitchell
(695)
Summary: Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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Call #: 323.1 MIT YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Margarita Engle
(3,129)
Summary: In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island...
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Call #: 811.54 ENG YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Susan Kuklin
(4,555)
Summary: "Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before,...
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Call #: 306.768 KUK YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
LeBron James
(753)
Summary: From the Publisher: From the ultimate team basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August a poignant, thrilling...
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Call #: B JAMES YA
Location: YA Biographies
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(131)
Summary: This anthology of poems written by teens was selected and assembled from the 27 years of submissions to Teen Ink magazine.
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Call #: 811 LEA YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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(560)
Summary: "Whether you are new to the poetry and proses of Shakespeare, and in need of a guide through the complex plots and unfamiliar language, or looking for a fresh perspective on his much-loved plays and...
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Call #: 822.33 SHA YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Pamela S. Turner
(1,741)
Summary: Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and...
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Call #: B MINAMOTO YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Danny Graydon
(23)
Summary: A look inside the creative process at Rovio that has driven the success of multimedia sensation Angry Birds.
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Call #: 794.8 ANG YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Zeina Abirached
Series:
Graphic Universe
(3,879)
Summary: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two by...
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Call #: B ABIRACHED YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Simon Schwartz
(716)
Summary: "Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his...
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Call #: B SCHWARTZ YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Howard E Wasdin
(1,629)
Summary: Discusses an elite group that is trained to do very difficult missions.
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Call #: 359 WAS YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Neal Bascomb
(5,034)
Summary: Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.
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Call #: 364.15 BAS YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Warren St. John
(7,961)
Summary: American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of...
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Call #: 796.334 ST. J YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(52,962)
Summary: This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Marty Gitlin
Series:
Military Heroes
(5)
Summary: Examines the life of George S. Patton. Covered in detail is Patton's role as a general during World War II, including his successful campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
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Call #: B PATTON YA
Location: YA Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Wayne B Drash
(97)
Summary: Documents the story of "Penny" Hardaway, tracing the injuries that halted his progress as a star athlete and his decision to coach the Lester Middle School basketball team in Memphis, where he helped...
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Call #: B HARDAWAY YA
Location: YA Biographies
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by
Joseph Bruchac
(348)
Summary: Jim Thorpe played professional football and major league baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He'll be forever revered by the sports community and by his Native American...
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Call #: B THORPE YA
Location: YA Biographies
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(27,098)
Summary: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Nic Sheff
(40,510)
Summary: Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable...
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Call #: B SHEFF YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Jordan Romero
(2,440)
Summary: "The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call #: B ROMERO YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Reinhard Kleist
(999)
Summary: Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage,...
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Call #: B HAFT YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Jenn McAllister
(1,353)
Summary: "Jenn McAllister, better known as Jennxpenn, has been obsessed with making videos since she found her parents' video camera at the age of eight. A shy child, Jenn turned to film because, unlike...
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Call #: B MCALLISTER YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Chris Herren
(1,393)
Summary: Former NBA basketball player Chris Herren chronicles the rise and fall of his basketball career, his struggle with drugs, his marriage to his high-school sweetheart, and life with his children.
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Call #: B HERREN YA
Location: YA Biographies
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(19,714)
Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Johanna Reiss
(11,870)
Summary: A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two and a half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.
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Call #: B REISS YA
Location: YA Biographies
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Bethany Hamilton
(12,905)
Summary: Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
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Call #: B HAMILTON YA
Location: YA Biographies
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