Blundell, Judy.
Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BLUBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARMayo, Matthew P.
Summary: In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYMay, Kyla
Summary: When their friend Jack cannot join them, Bub the pug and his human, Bella, vow to bring him souvenirs from their road trip, and despite some bumps along the way, Bub calls their trip a big success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAYSmith, Pauline Vaeluaga
Summary: After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SMIJames, Syrie.
Summary: Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte posses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writings. It is the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feelings and desires--and the truth about her life, its triumps and shattering disappointments, her family, the inpiration behind her work, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have--and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMAlexie, Sherman
Summary: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD FIC ALEMay, Kyla
Summary: It is Bub the pug's first trip to the beach, and Bella wants to enter him in a pet-surfing contest, but Bub is scared of the ocean and refuses, so he hopes to make it up to Bella by presenting her with the treasure at the end of the map he found.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: Bub the pug and his human Bella plan a pirate-themed sleepover with their friends and discover that even as the best-laid plans go awry they can still have fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MAYJosse, Gaëlle
Summary: "New York, November 3, 1954. In a few days, the immigration inspection station on Ellis Island will close its doors forever. John Mitchell, an officer of the Bureau of Immigration, is the guardian and last resident of the island. As Mitchell looks back over forty-five years as gatekeeper to America and its promise of a better life, he recalls his brief marriage to his beloved wife Liz, and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSHorlock, Mary.
Summary: Dwelling on the dark and difficult truths hidden within a family and on an island during the Second World War, The Book of Lies spins together the stories - told forty years apart - of Catherine and Charlie, who come to understand that no truth is as simple as it seems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011