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Summary: Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLElliott, Laura
Summary: Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she’s existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the fiery, intelligent Angelica and beautiful, sweet Eliza, but in the throes of a chaotic war, Peggy finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. When a flirtatious aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, writes to Peggy asking for her help in wooing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLElliott, Laura
Summary: Sam has trouble deciding what he is grateful for during a Thanksgiving-themed classroom assignment. Includes facts about Thanksgiving Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ELLElliott, Laura.
Summary: After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLElliott, Laura
Summary: In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLElliott, Laura
Summary: In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLElliott, Sam
Summary: After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERSummary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023