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by
Sharon Creech
(154,211)
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
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(4)
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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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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(978,918)
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 #: YA F SACHAR
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L. Konigsburg
(192,624)
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: Juvenile Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
(990,334)
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: Juvenile Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(986,059)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Jean Craighead George
Series:
Julie Series
(55,634)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Fleischman
(10,018)
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
BOOK
Call #: J 811.54 FLE
Location: Juvenile Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lois Lowry (read by Christina Moore )
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christopher Paul Curtis
(98,900)
Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
BOOK
Call #: J F CURTIS
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Series:
Shiloh Series
(76,615)
Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
BOOK
Call #: J F NAYLOR
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Richard Peck
(27,990)
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
BOOK
Call #: J F PECK
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jerry Spinelli
(117,965)
Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
BOOK
Call #: J F SPINELLI
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robin McKinley
Series:
Damar Series
(50,137)
Summary: Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
BOOK
Call #: YA F MCKINLEY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar (read by Kerry Beyer)
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(986,016)
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 CD BOOK F SACHAR
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate DiCamillo (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(166,236)
Summary: The adventures of Desperaux 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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F DICAMILLO
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Scott O'Dell
(298,850)
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F O'DELL
Location: Juvenile Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert C O'Brien
Series:
Rats Of NIMH Series
(165,712)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marguerite De Angeli
(15,454)
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
BOOK
Call #: J F DE ANGELI
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Sue Park
(36,107)
Summary: Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
BOOK
Call #: J F PARK
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karen Hesse
(70,301)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Susan Cooper (read by Richard Mitchley )
Series:
Dark Is Rising Series
(36,855)
Summary: A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F COOPER
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg (read by Jan Miner)
(192,170)
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 CD BOOK F KONIGSBURG
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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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DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY WRINKLE
Location: DVDs Family
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Cynthia Kadohata
(23,235)
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
BOOK
Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Sue Park (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(36,107)
Summary: Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PARK
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg
Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F KONIGSBURG
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by
Richard Peck (read by Lois Smith )
Series:
Long Way From Chicago Series
(27,990)
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PECK
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paula Fox
(9,862)
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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F FOX
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (read by Peter MacNicol )
Series:
Shiloh Series
(76,613)
Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F NAYLOR
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. B. White (read by E.B. White)
(1,445,725)
Summary: Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F WHITE
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Fleischman
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK 811.54 FLE
Location: Juvenile CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell (read by Tantoo Cardinal )
(297,244)
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F O'DELL
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth George Speare (read by Mary Beth Hurt )
(137,783)
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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F SPEARE
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by
Mildred D Taylor (read by Lynne Thigpen )
Series:
Logan Family Saga
(113,825)
Summary: A black family living in Missippippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F TAYLOR
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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