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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
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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: Junior Fiction
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(994,722)
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
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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
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
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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BOOK
Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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
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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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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
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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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by
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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Call #: J CD BOOK F STEAD
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
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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
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by
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
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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
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
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by
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
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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
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
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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
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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
(23,394)
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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by
Linda Sue Park (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PARK
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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
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PECK
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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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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
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by
E. B. White (read by E.B. White)
(1,471,187)
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: Junior CD Books Fiction
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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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by
Scott O'Dell (read by Tantoo Cardinal )
(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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F O'DELL
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
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by
Elizabeth George Speare (read by Mary Beth Hurt )
(139,408)
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
(114,625)
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: Junior CD Books Fiction
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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
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by
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
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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
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