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by
Tae Keller
(4,428)
Summary: When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
BOOK
Call #: J F KELLER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Jerry Craft , illustrator
(37,051)
Summary: Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school...
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BOOK
Call #: J GN CRA
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Hello, universe [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/196526@2x.jpg)
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by
Erin Entrada Kelly
(16,821)
Summary: Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F KELLY
Location: Junior Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Hello, universe [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/184590@2x.jpg)
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by
Erin Entrada Kelly (read by Bahni Turpin)
(16,555)
Summary: Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F KELLY
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Erin Entrada Kelly
(16,601)
Summary: Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
BOOK
Call #: J F KELLY
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The girl who drank the moon [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/172285@2x.jpg)
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by
Kelly Regan Barnhill
(64,255)
Summary: "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F BARNHILL
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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
Matt de la Peña
(14,886)
Summary: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How...
more »
BOOK
Call #: E DE LA PENA
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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![Flora & Ulysses [CD book] : the illuminated adventures](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/75456@2x.jpg)
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by
Kate DiCamillo
(43,626)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The one and only Ivan [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/70769@2x.jpg)
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by
Katherine Applegate
(152,637)
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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Moon over Manifest [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/57717@2x.jpg)
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by
Clare Vanderpool (read by Justine Eyre)
(31,618)
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Jack Gantos
Series:
Norvelt Series
(20,173)
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
details
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![Dead end in Norvelt [CD book]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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by
Jack Gantos
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F GANTOS
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Clare Vanderpool
(31,618)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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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,...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD CHILDREN TALE
Location: DVDs Children
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Rebecca Stead
(101,950)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: J F STEAD
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![When you reach me [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/47754@2x.jpg)
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by
Rebecca Stead (read by Cynthia Holloway )
(101,946)
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F STEAD
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Neil Gaiman
(465,407)
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
details
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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)
(465,397)
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
details
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![The slave dancer [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59830@2x.jpg)
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by
Paula Fox (read by Peter MacNicol )
(9,940)
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
details
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![Holes [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/224668@2x.jpg)
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by
Louis Sachar
(1,019,302)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,018,939)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
details
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by
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,021,902)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
(4,313)
Summary: In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
BOOK
Call #: J F LEWIS
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Call it courage [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59833@2x.jpg)
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by
Armstrong Sperry (read by Lou Diamond Phillips )
(12,291)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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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...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY BRIDGE
Location: DVDs Family
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Laura Amy Schlitz
(7,978)
Summary: A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
BOOK
Call #: J 812.6 SCH
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Lynne Rae Perkins
(8,531)
Summary: Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
BOOK
Call #: YA F PERKINS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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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
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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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...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD FAMILY WRINKLE
Location: DVDs Family
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Cynthia Kadohata
(23,679)
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
details
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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
(37,347)
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
details
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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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by
Kate DiCamillo (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(172,588)
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
details
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![Island of the Blue Dolphins [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22453@2x.jpg)
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by
Scott O'Dell (read by Tantoo Cardinal )
(305,521)
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F O'DELL
Location: Junior CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The witch of Blackbird Pond [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22476@2x.jpg)
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by
Elizabeth George Speare (read by Mary Beth Hurt )
(141,861)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Crispin [CD book] : the cross of lead](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/23490@2x.jpg)
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by
Avi (read by Ron Keith)
Series:
Crispin Series
(24,367)
Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: YA CD BOOK F AVI
Location: YA CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Smoky, the cowhorse [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/24792@2x.jpg)
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by
Will James (read by Jim Weiss )
(6,545)
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
details
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Staff Pick
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(196,101)
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
details
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![A wrinkle in time [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17447@2x.jpg)