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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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BOOK
Call #: 011.62 NEW 2016
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Matt de la Peña
(14,263)
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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Call #: E DE LA PENA
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 1 of 2
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Katherine Applegate
(148,248)
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Louis Sachar
(1,000,621)
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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Esther Forbes
(42,629)
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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Clare Vanderpool (read by Justine Eyre)
(31,178)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jack Gantos
Series:
Norvelt Series
(19,606)
Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GANTOS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Clare Vanderpool
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out...
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by
Virginia Hamilton
(4,026)
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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by
Elizabeth George Speare
(139,407)
Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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by
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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EBOOK
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by
Clare Vanderpool
(31,178)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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Clare Vanderpool
(31,178)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out...
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BOOK
Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
E. L. Konigsburg
(194,018)
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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rebecca Stead
(99,074)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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by
Katherine Paterson
(461,747)
Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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Rebecca Stead (read by Cynthia Holloway )
(99,074)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F STEAD
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Rebecca Stead
(99,071)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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Kate DiCamillo
(168,690)
Summary: The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
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Katherine Paterson
(461,747)
Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
EBOOK
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Summary: Once upon a time in the far away kingdom of Dor lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions,...
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Call #: DVD CHILDREN TALE
Location: DVDs Children
copies in: 0 of 1
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Rebecca Stead
(99,079)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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BOOK
Call #: J F STEAD
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(193,878)
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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Neil Gaiman
(455,789)
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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F GAIMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Neil Gaiman (read by Neil Gaiman)
(455,785)
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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F GAIMAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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Paula Fox
(9,887)
Summary: Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife so that captured slaves will "dance," and keep their muscles strong and...
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Maia Wojciechowska
(4,771)
Summary: Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness--how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting for the...
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Marguerite De Angeli
(15,629)
Summary: Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed...
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Neil Gaiman
(455,782)
Summary: Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Paula Fox (read by Peter MacNicol )
(9,887)
Summary: Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F FOX
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
(1,001,992)
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F SACHAR
Location: Junior Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(992,314)
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: 1 of 1
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Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,000,623)
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: 2 of 2
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Armstrong Sperry (read by Lou Diamond Phillips )
(12,153)
Summary: Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F SPERRY
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and...
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DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY BRIDGE
Location: DVDs Family
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Amy Schlitz
(7,927)
Summary: A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
BOOK
Call #: J 812.6 SCH
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Susan Patron
(12,901)
Summary: Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom...
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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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Linda Sue Park
(36,407)
Summary: Foraging in fields and on rubbish heaps, and sharing the food with his friend Crane-man, used to be enough to fill Tree-ear's days. But now all Tree-ear wants to do is watch master potter Min at...
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