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81) Wait for me
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On her father's farm in Scotland in 1945, Lorna Anderson's life consists of endless chores, rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Laura is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing....
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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
84) Julie's journey
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Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
It's 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America's 200th birthday. Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train in honor of the Bicentennial. The journey is filled with adventures, challenges, and self-discovery as Julie faces her fears to make an important contribution to her country's birthday. The "Looking Back" section provides additional information about Bicentennial celebrations in the United States.--From publisher's description....
85) Echo Mountain
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie. Determined...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.
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Bunnicula series volume 1
Pub. Date
2006, 1979
Physical Desc
xii, 98 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Overview: Beware the Hare! Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late. Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about newest pet in the Monroe household - a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits-and fangs! Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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385 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
89) The red pyramid
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
516 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
90) Displacement
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Pub. Date
2020.
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274 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
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Pub. Date
c2007
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93 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Julie is in school detention for passing a note to Joy, a deaf student who has trouble understanding what their teacher is saying. Indignant, Julie decides to run for student body president so she can make changes to the detention system. But the other students are put off by Joy, her choice for vice president, and Julie worries that she'll have little chance of winning if she partners with someone who seems so different. With persistence and creative...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Celeste Marconi siempre ha sido una soñadora. Su mayor deseo es que todo vuelva a ser como era antes. Antes de la dictadura. Antes de que sus padres tuvieran que esconderse. Antes de que la enviaran desde Chile a vivir con su tía a la costa de Maine. Antes de regresar a casa solo para descubrir que muchas cosas habían cambiado. Pero, más que nada, anhela saber qué le pasó a su mejor amiga. Lucila desapareció durante la dictadura junto...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...
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Pub. Date
2012
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198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
95) One true way
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Description
From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Series
Demon slayer volume 5
Pub. Date
2019, 2021.
Physical Desc
unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"At Mt. Natagumo, Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke battle a terrible family of spider demons. Taking on such powerful enemies demands all the skill and luck Tanjiro has as he and his companions fight to rescue Nezuko from the spiders' web. The battle is drawing in other Demon Slayers but not all of them will leave Mt. Natagumo alive--or in one piece!"--Page 4 of cover
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Series
Demon slayer volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life. Tanjiro and Nezuko cross paths with two powerful demons...
98) Salt magic
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
238 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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425 pages ; 22 cm
Description
As the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, Rosa Dominguez seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself, is in the house. After her father announces their upcoming auditions for a concert with Prince, Rosa is more determined than ever to succeed. When Nikki-- the cross-dressing boy who works in the dance shop-- leaps into her...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
274 pages : 22 cm.
Description
Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and...
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