Ormsbee, Kathryn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ORMBrauner, Barbara.
Summary: "Lacey Unger-Ware has broken one of the Fairy Godmother rules, and if she doesn't help fulfill Martin Shembly's wish, there will be a chilly magical price to pay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRASummary: Reverend Dave is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families. He finds himself taken aback by the interference of the government and believing that their right to educate their children is a freedom worth fighting for. Reverend Dave is called to Washington DC to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of religious freedom in our country for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GODLord, Cynthia
Summary: On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOROrmsbee, Katie.
Summary: Homeschooler Stevie Hart meets Max, a strange boy who is obsessed with death, but what starts off as fun together begins spiraling downward when Stevie's diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with Max, and her best friend, Sanger, announces she is moving out of state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ORMCarlson, Melody
Summary: Ginny Masters manages a boutique hotel in Seattle, but daily challenges and a demanding boss are getting to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after getting her hospitality degree. She longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life. Just for the summer, they'll swap jobs and lifestyles, and even love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CAVHarrison, Jim
Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSpinelli, Jerry.
Summary: Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPIReynolds, Jason
Summary: Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION REYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series ReynoldsAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MCAReichardt, Marisa
Summary: After contracting measles with devastating consequences, sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade sues her anti-vaccination parents, hoping she can have a more normal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REISummary: Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WISKorman, Gordon.
Summary: Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORSwartz, Elly D
Summary: When eleven-year-old Maggie's parents become temporary foster parents for a new baby, her tendency to hoard spirals out of control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWAOzeki, Ruth L.
Summary: Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZESummary: "The comic book industry comes together to support the survivors and honor those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. Writers and artists from across the globe have created exclusive new material expressing their sorrow, compassion, frustration, and hope, all inspired by the tragic events. In doing so, they celebrate the victims, survivors, and their families...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LOVSummary: Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FOUWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "The Aldens are helping out at a harvest festival in a town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. But something in the hills is scaring people away! Are the local rumors about a werewolf true?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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Summary: When Uncle Murray accidentally uploads a video of Kitty to Viewtube, it goes VIRAL, and Kitty becomes a STAR...kind of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRUPileggi, Leah.
Summary: In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PILPileggi, Leah.
Summary: In 1885, ten-year-old Jake is sent to prison for killing a man who threatened his father, and struggles to survive the harsh realities of prison life in the Idaho Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PILKatschke, Judy
Summary: Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a trip to Hawaii, where the Magic School Bus provides them with individual submarines, and they learn about fish schools and the behavior of undersea animals--and try to avoid being eaten by a shark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2018