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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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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F APPLEGATE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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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)
(30,958)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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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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BOOK
Call #: J F GANTOS
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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BOOK
Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/224665@2x.jpg)
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by
E. L. Konigsburg
(192,624)
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: Juvenile Playways
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
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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BOOK
Call #: J F STEAD
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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 )
(97,102)
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F STEAD
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Neil Gaiman
(449,062)
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)
(449,030)
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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![The slave dancer [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/59830@2x.jpg)
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by
Paula Fox (read by Peter MacNicol )
(9,862)
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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![Holes [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/224668@2x.jpg)
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by
Louis Sachar
(990,334)
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: Juvenile Playways
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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BOOK
Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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 )
(12,072)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
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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by
Laura Amy Schlitz
(7,918)
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: Juvenile Nonfiction
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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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
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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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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Juvenile 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
(36,855)
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: Juvenile CD Books 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 )
(166,236)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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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 )
(297,244)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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 )
(137,783)
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
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![Charlotte's web [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/20449@2x.jpg)
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E. B. White (read by E.B. White)
(1,445,725)
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: Juvenile CD Books 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 )
(6,504)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Roll of thunder, hear my cry [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/22479@2x.jpg)
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by
Mildred D Taylor (read by Lynne Thigpen )
Series:
Logan Family Saga
(113,825)
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: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 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.
BOOK
Call #: J F PARK
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A single shard [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/16072@2x.jpg)
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by
Linda Sue Park (read by Graeme Malcolm )
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PARK
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
(154,211)
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
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(978,918)
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
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F PECK
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A year down yonder [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17451@2x.jpg)
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by
Richard Peck (read by Lois Smith )
Series:
Long Way From Chicago Series
(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.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F PECK
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Holes [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11200@2x.jpg)
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by
Louis Sachar (read by Kerry Beyer)
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(986,016)
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 CD BOOK F SACHAR
Location: Juvenile CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 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.
BOOK
Call #: J F CURTIS
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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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.
BOOK
Call #: J F HESSE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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: Juvenile CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A wrinkle in time [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17447@2x.jpg)