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by
Katherine. Paterson
(498,806)
Summary: Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone.
BOOK
Call #: J F PATERSON
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Madeleine L'Engle
Series:
Murry Family Time Quintet - #1
(1,120,496)
Summary: Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
BOOK
Call #: J F L'ENGLE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 3
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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
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,087,456)
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
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,090,460)
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: 0 of 1
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by
Sharon Creech
(161,721)
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F CREECH
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jean Craighead George
Series:
Julie Series
(57,783)
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
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lois Lowry
Series:
Giver Quartet - #1
(2,121,799)
Summary: Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver,...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F LOWRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Russell Freedman
(10,937)
Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
BOOK
Call #: J B LINCOLN
Location: Junior Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
(315,821)
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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by
Carol Ryrie Brink
(50,522)
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
Robert C O'Brien
Series:
Rats Of NIMH Series
(171,600)
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
Marguerite De Angeli
(16,813)
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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Staff Pick
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(45,328)
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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Staff Pick
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by
Karen Hesse
(73,761)
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: 0 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
(4,453)
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
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate DiCamillo
(46,834)
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...
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BOOK
Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Kwame Alexander
Series:
Crossover (Kwame Alexander)
(51,273)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
BOOK
Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
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 #: YA F O'DELL
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lois Lowry
(511,926)
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F LOWRY
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Matt de la Peña
(16,107)
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...
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BOOK
Call #: J P NEIGHBOR DE LA PENA
Location: Junior Picture Books - Neighbors
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Kelly Regan Barnhill
(77,427)
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...
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BOOK
Call #: J F BARNHILL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christopher Paul Curtis
(104,958)
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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by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Series:
Shiloh Series
(81,265)
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F NAYLOR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Richard Peck
(28,900)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Avi
Series:
Crispin
(25,316)
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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F AVI
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jerry Spinelli
(121,595)
Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
BOOK
Call #: J F SPINELLI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robin McKinley
Series:
Damar Series
(51,570)
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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by
Kate DiCamillo
(182,593)
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: 0 of 1
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by
Cynthia Kadohata
(25,017)
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: 0 of 1
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by
Paula Fox
(10,124)
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
Lynne Rae Perkins
(8,730)
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
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by
Marguerite Henry
(25,403)
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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by
Laura Amy Schlitz
(8,167)
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
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Staff Pick
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by
Neil Gaiman
(490,371)
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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by
Rebecca Stead
(104,855)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
E. L Konigsburg
(201,712)
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
Ellen Raskin
(192,203)
Summary: The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
BOOK
Call #: J F RASKIN
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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