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Pub. Date
2021.
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375 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
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"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected--until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten long...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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208 pages ; 22 cm.
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Summer, 1991. The people of Cuba are living in el periodo especial en tiempos de paz - the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Hunger has made Liana brave: she finds the courage to skip a summer of so-called volunteer farm labor, even though she risks government retribution. Amado also refuses to comply, so he wanders alone, trying to discover...
83) Snow Lane
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Pub. Date
2018.
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197 pages ; 22 cm.
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Fifth grader Annie is just like every other girl in her small suburban town. Except she's starting to realize that she isn't. Annie is the youngest of nine children. Instead of being condemned to the bottom of the pecking order, she wants to carve out place for herself in the world. But it's hard to find your destiny when the only thing you're good at is being cheerful. Annie is learning that it's difficult to be Annie, period, and not just because...
84) Salt magic
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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238 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
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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
2019.
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353 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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Lillia, her younger sister Naomi, , and their father fled Warsaw in 1940. Shanghai was one of the few places that would accept Jews without visas. She worries about how their mother, Alenka, would find them. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when they were circus performers. She makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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314 pages ; 22 cm
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Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey's...
88) Copyboy
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
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233 pages ; 22 cm.
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Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. But the journey will not be a simple one. Victor will confront a strange and threatening world that puts his abilities and confidence to the test. He meets a girl named Philomene, and together they may meet the challenge-- if they can evade Hurricane Betsy. -- adapted from goodreads.com info.
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No place for monsters volume 1
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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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"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...
92) Julie's journey
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Series
Pub. Date
c2007
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84 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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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....
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Series
Bunnicula series volume 1
Pub. Date
2006, 1979
Physical Desc
xii, 98 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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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Series
Pub. Date
c2007
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93 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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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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Pub. Date
2022.
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392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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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Pub. Date
2012
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198 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
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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.
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Remixed classics volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
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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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Demon slayer volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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"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...
99) In the tunnel
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
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Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi flees North Korea with his family during the height of the devastating Korean War, beginning an epic struggle for survival that pushes them to the brink.
100) The turning pointe
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
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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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