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bibliography Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Large type books. novel Short stories.Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRETripp, Valerie
Summary: When Samantha's tenth birthday party is spoiled by the boy next door, Aunt Cornelia and her young twin sisters try to ease Samantha's disappointment by inviting her and Grandmary to visit them in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIAdler, Susan S.
Summary: When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ADLAdler, Susan S.
Summary: When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ADLGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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Summary: In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRETripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: When her father's business closes because of the Great Depression forcing Kit to make changes in her life, the nine-year-old responds with resourcefulness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRISummary: The annual short fiction series showcases the work of such authors as Maggie Shipstead, James Lasdun, Rebbecca Makkai, Charles Baxter, Ron Rash, and Danielle Evans, selected from a variety of sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESTripp, Valerie
Summary: When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an orphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
Summary: While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRICather, Willa
Summary: Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden, " and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATChilds, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHISummary: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRIAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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Summary: Three novels include two from the Snopes trilogy, "The Town," and "The Mansion," which portrays the downfall of the rapacious, cruel dynasty, and a lesser-known comic novel "The Reivers," which is set around a Memphis brothel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC FAULKMacdonald, Ross
Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELSimpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Summary: "In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMDreiser, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1987