Maddox, Jake
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADHattemer, Kate.
Summary: "When a sleazy reality television show takes over Ethan's arts academy, he and his friends concoct an artsy plan to take it down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HATHerbach, Geoff.
Summary: When the high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band, Gabe Johnson, an overweight "band geek" tired of being called names and looked down on, declares war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HERWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Wilder 1971McGhee, Alison
Summary: Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2008