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by
Christopher Paul Curtis
(101,095)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Carol Ryrie Brink
(49,543)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jean Lee Latham
(16,178)
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.
BOOK
Call #: J F LATHAM
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Avi
Series:
Crispin
(24,426)
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
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
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by
Kwame Alexander
Series:
Crossover (Kwame Alexander)
(45,368)
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.
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Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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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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Call #: J F GANTOS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marguerite De Angeli
(15,877)
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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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...
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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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
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by
Kelly Regan Barnhill
(63,279)
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: 0 of 1
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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
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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
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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
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by
Robin McKinley
Series:
Damar Series
(50,520)
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
Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,023,746)
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 #: YA F SACHAR
Location: YA Fiction
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...
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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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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...
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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott O'Dell
(305,527)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Paul Fleischman
(10,115)
Summary: A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
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by
Jean Craighead George
Series:
Julie Series
(56,433)
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
(24,792)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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.
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Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Junior Fiction
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...
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Call #: E DE LA PENA
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Jerry Spinelli
(119,190)
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
Meg Medina
(6,126)
Summary: Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and...
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Call #: J F MEDINA
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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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...
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Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert C O'Brien
Series:
Rats Of NIMH Series
(167,689)
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
Jerry Craft , illustrator
(35,993)
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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Call #: J GN CRA
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 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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Call #: 011.62 NEW 2016
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katherine Applegate
(152,640)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Karen Hesse
(71,673)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Series:
Shiloh Series
(78,176)
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: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Linda Sue Park
(36,616)
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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by
Paula Fox
(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.
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Call #: YA F FOX
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate DiCamillo
(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.
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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