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61) Nearly found
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Nearly gone volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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368 pages ; 22 cm
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High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.
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Ivy + Bean volume 9
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.
65) Honor girl
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"Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for...
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2021.
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"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
67) We are not free
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
68) Unscripted
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Zelda Bailey-Cho has her future all planned out: improv camp, then Second City, and finally Saturday Night Live. When she lands a spot on the coveted Varsity team at a prestigious improv camp, it means she'll get to perform for professional scouts. But Zelda is the only girl on Varsity, and becomes a target for humiliation from her teammates. Her older coach, Ben, is cruel to her at practice and way too nice to her when they're alone. Zelda has to...
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Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
102 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Excited to have Barney starting their first week at the camp, the Roanokes run over to the Zodiac cabin, only to find everyone turned to stone! Between strange shadows and Diane being back, it looks like April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are going to have their hands full trying to find a cure for their friends ... as long as they don't look the wrong thing in the eye first.
70) Cilka's journey
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia. But what choice did she have? And where did...
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
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Pub. Date
2023
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"Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes, Virginia decides to stay in occupied France with her French...
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Batpig volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"It's official: Batpig is a super-swine hero! But Batpig's alter ego, Gary Yorkshire? He still does ordinary things like going to school and taking tests. So what happens when Gary gets a little help on his biology test from a magical creature named Sharkraham Lincoln (half shark, half sixteenth president) and sets off a cheating scandal? Or when he goes off to summer camp to relax...and has to save the day without his Batpig uniform? It's not easy...
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Waffles and Pancake volume 4
Pub. Date
2023
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"Waffles and Pacake are about to spend three days at Space Cat Camp--a fun, science-packed training experience for future CatStronauts. What's not to love about Space Cat Camp? You get to go on cool missions, build rockets, and more! Pancake can't wait to learn about satellites, space shuttles, and all things outer space, but Waffles is feeling a little homesick. How can he enjoy his time at camp when he misses his dad-cat? With some new friends and...
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Heroes of Olympus volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Uniting with Jason, Piper, and Leo after their dangerous quest, Percy, Hazel, and Frank wonder who will be chosen to fulfill the Prophecy of Seven, completing their group's number, and sail with them to an ancient land to find the mysterious Doors of Death.
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Abbi Hope Goldstein has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11: in an iconic photograph, Abbi wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now her alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, and Abbi is desperate for anonymity. Spending the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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189 pages ; 22 cm.
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1898. Ben Ward works with his Pa in a Minnesota logging camp, peeling potatoes and setting tables. Come spring, he signs up for the log drive with his friend Nevers. The head cook on the wanigan (the floating cook shack) is Pete Sardman, aka Old Sard, a cantankerous character with a greasy apron, an eye patch, one deaf ear, and plenty to say. As the team endures freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms and floods, and a number of gripping...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
188 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"In Yehudi Mercado's full-color middle grade graphic memoir sequel to Chunky, Hudi and his imaginary friend, Chunky, head to Jewish summer camp, where the dynamic duo meet a new friend who can see Chunky, too, and get mixed up in a prank war. This series is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft. Hudi finally embraced his love of art and comedy, but his class clown antics keep getting him in trouble. After Hudi's artwork lands him in...
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