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Summary: Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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Summary: When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family. John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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Summary: Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: Presents an illustrated collection of nine very short stories about the happy, sad, and exciting things that sometimes happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVIAvi
Summary: Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AVIAvi
Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books For Children 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvi
Summary: Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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Summary: In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVIAvital, Avi
Contents: Sachidao (1:53) -- 1. Bot tanc / Jocul cu bata (Stick Dance) (1:14) -- 2. Braul (Sash Dance) (0:32) -- 3. Topogo / Pe loc (In One Spot) (1:16) -- 4. Bucsumi tanc / Buciumeana (Dance From Bucsum) (1:37) -- 5. Roman polka / Poarga Romaneasca (Romanian Polka) (0:31) -- 6. Aprozo / Maruntel (Fast Dance) (0:58) -- Bucimis (2:57) -- Aria (Cantilena) (5:17) -- Fuga y misterio (7:41) -- 1. El pa?o...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2014
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Avi Buffalo (Musical group)
Contents: So What (3:23) -- Memories of You (4:11) -- Can't Be Too Responsible (3:19) -- Two Cherished Understandings (1:42) -- Overwhelmed with Pride (4:03) -- Found Blind (3:06) -- She Is Seventeen (3:05) -- Think It's Gonna Happen Again (2:58) -- Oxygen Tank (5:28) -- Won't Be Around No More (3:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop Records 2014
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Summary: Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMA RATED PG-13Summary: A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit made of armor. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008