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Karen Hesse
(70,709)
Summary: When Billie Jo is just fourteen she must endure heart-wrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. The quiet strength she displays while dealing with unspeakable loss is as surprising as it...
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Karen Hesse
Summary: In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the...
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Summary: Bear snores on: All winter long, Bear sleeps in his cozy lair. Surprise guests stop by to warm up, brew tea, and make pop corn, all while Bear snores on. Waiting for wings: Butterflies bloom as...
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN BEAR
Location: DVDs Children
copies in: 1 of 1
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Karen Hesse
(22)
Summary: A boy overcomes his fear of Lester's fierce dog when he has to protect an abandoned kitten.
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Call #: E HESSE
Location: Picture Books
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Karen Hesse
(1,016)
Summary: Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.
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Call #: E HESSE
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karen Hesse
(618)
Summary: What is it like to work at night, while the rest of the city is asleep? Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse's quietly powerful story of a boy and his father is tenderly brought to life by G. Brian Karas in...
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Call #: E HESSE
Location: Picture Books
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Karen Hesse
(70,709)
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.
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Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Karen Hesse
(2,107)
Summary: A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
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Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Junior Fiction
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Karen Hesse
(5,140)
Summary: A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Call #: YA F HESSE
Location: YA Fiction
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