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Boston (Mass.) History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction Boston (Mass.) History Revolution, 1775-1783 Juvenile fiction Friendship Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Houston (Tex.) Fiction Schools Fiction Texas Houston United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Juvenile fictionSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War and becomes a patriot, fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JOHLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LIMDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with Rush Limbaugh's really good pal for a new time-travel adventure. "Whoa there, young historians! Before we go rush, rush, rushing off anywhere, I'd like a moment. I'm Liberty, Rush Revere's loquacious equine companion -- his trusty talking horse! Always at the ready to leap from the twenty-first century into America's past, that's me. When he says 'Let's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J LIMForbes, Esther.
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORAvi
Summary: To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVISummary: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Follow the adventures of this enthusiastic, optimistic sponge whose good intentions inevitably lead him and his friends into trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURKim, Carol
Summary: Jina Jeong loves pandas, but a visit to the zoo introduces her to a local endangered species, the Houston toad, and teaches her that it is not only cute and cuddly animals that need to be protected.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMForbes, Esther.
Summary: After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORManushkin, Fran
Summary: Studying the planets at school, Pedro learns fascinating facts about Mars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR BLUE SPANISH MANHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hawthorne 2015Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2019Chiavaroli, Heidi
Summary: "An antique ring reunites a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her. Together, they unearth the two-hundred-year-old history of a woman who suffered tremendous loss in the Boston Massacre, a woman torn between the love of two men - one a Patriot, and the other a Redcoat. As both women seem to forgive the wrongs done to them, each must decide whether to face their future...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIRissman, Rebecca
Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RISKim, Carol
Summary: Jina Jeong wants to start a club to introduce all the kids in her area to the nature activities she enjoys, but her parents suggest she start small--so Jina sets out to persuade her friend Sofia to go camping with Jina's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KIMMcCloskey, Robert
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2024
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Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CURMcCloskey, Robert
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1941
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Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESPennypacker, Sara
Summary: With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Pennypacker 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PENMathieu, Jennifer
Summary: In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021