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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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![A wrinkle in time [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14870@2x.jpg)
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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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![Bridge to Terabithia [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27933@2x.jpg)
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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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![The tale of Despereaux [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/40737@2x.jpg)
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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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DVD
Call #: DVD CHILDREN TALE
Location: DVDs Children
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F BRINK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Dear Mr. Henshaw [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/49394@2x.jpg)
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by
Beverly Cleary
(37,716)
Summary: In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F CLEARY
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The grey king [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/13240@2x.jpg)
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by
Susan Cooper (read by Richard Mitchley )
Series:
Dark Is Rising Series
(37,030)
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: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Walk two moons [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/12613@2x.jpg)
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by
Sharon Creech
(155,719)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christopher Paul Curtis
(99,709)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Marguerite De Angeli
(15,629)
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
BOOK
Call #: J F DE ANGELI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The tale of Despereaux [CD book] : [being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11904@2x.jpg)
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Kate DiCamillo (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Fleischman
(10,046)
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
BOOK
Call #: J 811.54 FLE
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Joyful noise [CD book] : poems for two voices](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22191@2x.jpg)
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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: Junior CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The whipping boy [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/23488@2x.jpg)
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by
Sid Fleischman
(25,351)
Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F FLEISCHMAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paula Fox
(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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F FOX
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The slave dancer [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59830@2x.jpg)
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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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Staff Pick
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by
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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![The graveyard book [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/40299@2x.jpg)
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by
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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Staff Pick
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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
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F GEORGE
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F HENRY
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Smoky, the cowhorse [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/24792@2x.jpg)
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Will James (read by Jim Weiss )
(6,526)
Summary: If you'd like to meet a real cow puncher, you'll enjoy Clint, the bronc peeler. He'll tell you all about his favority pony, Smoky, who lived a full horse's life in cow country in the early 1900s.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F JAMES
Location: Junior CD Books 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.
BOOK
Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The view from Saturday [CD book]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg (read by Jan Miner)
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F KONIGSBURG
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
E. L. Konigsburg
(194,341)
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
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F LATHAM
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Number the stars [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/81543@2x.jpg)
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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: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robin McKinley
Series:
Damar Series
(50,200)
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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![Shiloh [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17884@2x.jpg)
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by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (read by Peter MacNicol )
Series:
Shiloh Series
(77,197)
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: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert C O'Brien
Series:
Rats Of NIMH Series
(166,443)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
(300,931)
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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BOOK
Call #: J F O'DELL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A wrinkle in time [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17447@2x.jpg)