Jackson, Tiffany D
Summary: When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "Allegedly. She didn't say much in the first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACSummary: At a New Orleans halfway house for girls, Nell Sweetzer attempts to recover from her trauma, but the demon that possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARMde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH DELSpanogle, Joshua.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARM DP 1Hoag, Tami.
Summary: Senator Erik Gunther comes to the group home for delinquent girls where Lynn Shaw is the counselor, supposedly to defend her from angry locals opposed to the Horizon House. Lynn thinks he's there for a photo op and that's the last thing the girls or her heart need.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOARoss, Mikaël
Summary: "In this YA graphic novel, a boy with developmental disabilities finds his world turned upside down after his mother has a stroke and he realizes for the first time he's on his own"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ROSFinlay, Alex
Summary: "In one of the year's most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls "Alex Finlay's best yet," What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINHauck, Liz
Summary: "Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided toattempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7483 HAUJohn-Kehewin, Wanda
Summary: "In this young adult novel, fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHPorter, Max
Summary: A troubled teenage boy wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future, as he escapes Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORSummary: Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOAlender, Katie
Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEVlautin, Willy.
Summary: Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, he finds his existence has become unbearable. An act of desperation helps him disappear deep into his mind, into a world of romance and science fiction, danger and adventure where he is whole once again. Freddie McCall, the night man at Leroy's group home, works...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VLASummary: "In a riveting course designed to give non-scientists the matchless experience of scientific discovery and deep understanding, The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know takes you through the most remarkable insights of contemporary physics, showing why physicists believe what they do."--The Great Courses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 EVISummary: What is it like for people with autism, living among others yet always, in a sense, living alone? And how do their parents cope, as they care for them? Built around several case studies, this program distinguishes between high- and low-functioning autism; illustrates structural and functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains; considers genetics, neurological diseases, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005