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Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Children's poetry, American Family Juvenile fiction Mystery and detective stories Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fiction Science fiction Teenage girls FictionSummary: An anthology of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," and Peter Straub's "Little Red."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POELewis, J. Patrick.
Summary: Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If "The Raven" is not the best-known American poem, then "Annabel Lee" is. Both have endured because they successfully illustrate Poe's esthetic theories of poetics; they use natural, comprehensible language whose music weaves a spell that underscores and heightens the language. These two poems and "The Dream within a Dream" are performed (not merely read!) as Poe himself might have recited...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: “Madness, but will you say that I am mad? Murder, perhaps you judge too soon. For when you hear my story, you will certainly understand why, very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” True to the words of master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe, this stunning adaptation brings to life what is perhaps Poe’s best-known short story. Murder, madness, and betrayal from within...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Children of Alice (Musical group)
Contents: The harbinger of spring (19:18) -- Righ of the maypole - an unruly procession (6:48) -- Invocation of a midsummer reverie (9:04) -- The liminal space (5:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CHISummary: In the Lord's Resistance Army, eight out of ten rebels are under 16 years of age. Some are as young as 6. Providing rare footage of guerrilla leader Joseph Kony, interviews with President Museveni and village and church leaders, and firsthand accounts of the child soldiers and their families, this program reveals the stark facts of life in northern Uganda's Acholi villages. There thousands of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HADHeine, Florian.
Summary: Buildings of every shape and size and from all corners of the world, populate this colorful and beautifully produced book that introduces children to history's most iconic architectural feats and the people behind them. In lively illustrated spreads, young readers will learn how Christopher Wren reconstructed an 11th-century cathedral after London's great fire of 1666 to become the St Paul's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JT 720.922 FlorianWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1993
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WARHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2016Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2018Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at East Bay
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1977
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The four Alden children try to discover who is stealing eggs from Mr. Beas's woodshed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Mike Wood presents many strange happenings for the Alden children to solve when they spend the summer at Mystery Ranch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1960
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2017Yolen, Jane.
Summary: Original poems based on water in its various forms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 YOLLloyd, Natalie
Summary: Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LLOWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: A collection of Boxcar children stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WAR #13Warner, Gertrude Chandler.
Summary: The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2010
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Mystery of the lost mine: On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Graceffa, Joey
Summary: "Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Keyword Press/Atria 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GRAClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: When we last saw Nancy Harmon, tragedy had struck her family as she suffered through the heartbreak of her first marriage, the ghastly deaths of her two children, hostile media coverage, and the harsh criminal charges against her. Nancy was forced to relocate across the country, change her name and appearance, anything that could be used to identify her controversial past. Years later, after a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023