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by
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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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(193,879)
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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Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
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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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior 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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Call #: J F GANTOS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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.
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Call #: J F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Marguerite De Angeli
(15,629)
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
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Call #: J F DE ANGELI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Sue Park
(36,407)
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.
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Call #: J F PARK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(44,481)
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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by
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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by
Jean Craighead George
Series:
Julie Series
(55,909)
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.
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Call #: J F GEORGE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carol Ryrie Brink
(49,073)
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Call #: J F BRINK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Richard Peck
(28,067)
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.
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Call #: J F PECK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jerry Spinelli
(118,360)
Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
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Call #: J F SPINELLI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate DiCamillo
(168,689)
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.
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Cynthia Kadohata
(23,394)
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.
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Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marguerite Henry
(24,661)
Summary: Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses.
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Call #: J F HENRY
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jean Lee Latham
(15,937)
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.
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Call #: J F LATHAM
copies in: 1 of 1
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