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Engle, Margarita

Summary: When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

Morris, Heather

Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morris

Greenwood, Sara

Summary: "With her older brother in prison, a young girl copes with the confusing feelings his absence creates"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Abendanon, Lucille

Summary: "After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jolly Fish Press 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC ABE

Fisher, Catherine

Summary: To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIS

Lu, Marie

Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LU

Doeden, Matt

Summary: An interactive World War II adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DOE

Braun, Eric

Summary: An interactive World War I adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRA

Gunderson, Jessica

Summary: An interactive Civil War adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a Confederate prison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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Willems, Mo

Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WIL

Marks, Janae

Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MAR

Spencer, Renè

Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SPE

Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

Willems, Mo

Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN WIL

Ware, Syrus Marcus

Summary: Amelie learns about collective care, mutual aid, and abolitionist ideas as they help their parents get ready for the annual Prisoners' Justice Day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAR

Mohamed, Premee

Summary: "Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOH

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOO

Shipman, James D.

Summary: March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how unpredictable and uncertain warfare can be. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge after the Germans...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC SHI

Bright, J. E.

Summary: Three crooks have escaped from Prison Island. Can the cops catch them before they get to shore? Find out in this funny, action-packed adventure!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016

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Raúl the Third

Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Morpurgo, Michael

Summary: "As a child, Allen is saved from a nautical disaster by Benjamin Postlethwaite, a solitary lighthouse keeper. Years later, Allen returns to the lighthouse, and the two nurse an injured young puffin back to health. When Allen is called up to fight in WorldWar Two...his fond memories of his time at the lighthouse keep him going, even through prison camp"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited 2022

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Pileggi, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PIL

Pileggi, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIL

Salazar, Alicia

Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SAL

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