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Adventure stories Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Juvenile fiction Large type books Mothers and daughters Fiction Nineteen sixties Fiction Nineteen sixties Juvenile fiction Oregon Territory History Fiction Spy stories United States History 1961-1969 Fiction United States History 1961-1969 Juvenile fictionKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: When three generations of Brown women take to the Oregon Trail with separate goals in mind, hardship and obstacles test their faith and threaten their survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIRKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: The dramatic story of a freed slave who has lost her husband and her freedom papers and must find a way to survive in the wilderness of the Oregon Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIRKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "Musician Natalie Curtis is broken by strict training and a lost love. After encountering Native American music, she is determined to save these ancient songs which are being silenced by the government. In doing so, Natalie steps inside the space betweenthe notes to discover something she'd forgotten-music powerful enough to heal. Based on a true story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "As a child, Eliza Spalding Warren was taken hostage by Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her husband wants to move, which will mean returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza must face her childhood trauma and find peace with what's left"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESDella Quercia, Jacopo
Summary: "This historical thriller is an equal-parts cocktail of action, adventure, science-fiction and comedy. The book follows a globe-trotting President Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln in a race to solve a mystery stretching back to the Civil War and the Lincoln assassination. Based on true events, readers will find themselves swept into a vast conspiracy spanning four continents and three oceans during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELFreedman, Deborah (Deborah Jane)
Summary: "A small but mighty bird declares it is a dinosaur! But no one believes that dinosaurs still exist. How can it be a dinosaur when it is so little? Dinosaurs didn't have feathers...or did they? This tiny dino is here to explain to its animal friends that birds are, in fact, dinosaurs, and all creatures are connected to one big animal family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPWiles, Deborah
Summary: One night after a storm, environmental activist Rachel Carson takes her nephew Roger out for a walk by the sea. Includes notes about Rachel Carson, the story, and bioluminescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILWiles, Deborah
Summary: It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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Summary: Molly and her cousin drive cross-country in an old bus, navigating protests, parades, and concerts to notify her conscientious objector brother that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILWiles, Deborah.
Summary: Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010