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by
Katherine Applegate
(145,226)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Carol Ryrie Brink
(48,816)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sharon Creech
(154,214)
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.
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Call #: J F CREECH
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 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.
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Call #: J F CURTIS
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.
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Call #: J F DE ANGELI
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate DiCamillo
(166,238)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Jack Gantos
Series:
Norvelt Series
(19,390)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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.
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Call #: J F GEORGE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marguerite Henry
(24,561)
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: 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.
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Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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.
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Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(192,175)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(44,318)
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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Jean Lee Latham
(15,800)
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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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.
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Call #: J F NAYLOR
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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.
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Call #: J F O'BRIEN
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
(297,257)
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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Call #: J F O'DELL
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 0 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.
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Call #: J F PARK
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.
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Call #: J F PECK
Location: Juvenile 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: Juvenile Fiction
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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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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.
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Call #: J F SPINELLI
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rebecca Stead
(97,109)
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 F STEAD
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Clare Vanderpool
(30,959)
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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Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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