Gratz, Alan
Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017Gratz, Alan
Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRATanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANSanderson, Brandon
Summary: "All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: "In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AustinGrey, Melissa
Summary: "Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. From the crops that don't grow to the terrifying creatures that roam the countryside, Yoly's life in the Valley is brutal and harsh. She dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. But first, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEYShrum, Brianna R.
Summary: After her grandpa got sick half a world away, Hallie Jacob's parents yanked her to Colorado the last semester of her senior year. Career-wise, she has specialized in fighting fire, and now she is surrounded by ice, snow, and a thousand cousins she's half-banned from hanging around with. On one big family weekend in the freaking tundra, Hallie sneaks off with those cousins to an abandoned ski...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHRGolding, William
Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GOLMonninger, Joseph.
Summary: When the plane carrying the Junior Action News Team crash lands in Alaska, the group must try to stay alive in the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Summary: "All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family's Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders, has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JACdeVos, Kelly
Summary: Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DEVAfshar, Tessa
Summary: "The beloved daughter of Jewish captives in Babylon, Keren is sold into Daniel's household to help her family survive. She becomes Daniel's most trusted scribe, while taking lessons and swordsmanship training alongside Daniel's sons and their best friend, Jared. But after a tragic accident changes the course of her life, Keren finds herself in a foreign country, charged with a mysterious task:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELMartel, Yann
Summary: Patel Pi is a young man living in India, his father is the owner and manager of the zoo in the city but decided to emigrate to Canada and seek a better life through the sale of animals. After complex procedures, the family begins a journey Patel that is cut short by tragedy: a terrible storm wrecks the ship they are traveling on. Pi will have to use his talents to survive while he also deals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Destino, 2003
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2023
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Summary: In 1842, every resident of Copper Harbor, MI disappeared without a trace. In 2019, Bill Hitze and his son Brandon make a gruesome discovery while fishing on Lake Superior that starts to shed light on the old mystery. According to Professor Stephanie Crowe, an Ojibwa legend predicts that the town's residents will be lost again. Together, Bill and Stephanie strive to discover the truth about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELGoodkind, Terry
Summary: "Richard, Kahlan, and seven companions, are hunting a warlock in the waterlogged depths of the People's Palace. It will take all their skills to close on their quarry, but do any of them understand the true power of a Witch's Oath? Richard knew that there would be no help coming. It was all up to him to stop the threat or Kahlan would die. They all would die."--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2020
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Goodkind 2020Henderson, Alice
Summary: Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENRevoyr, Nina
Summary: Four hikers from Los Angeles journey to the Sierra Neveda and discover an untraversed trail which leads them into unexpected territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2015