Harris, Pamela N.
Summary: When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALEWissinger, Tamera Will
Summary: "Camping is fun. Until it's time to sleep. Then, Lucy wonders, what kinds of creatures lurk in the dark? With only her brother and grandpa as tent mates, will Lucy be able to face her camping fears? Includes a variety of poetic forms--from aubade to haiku--as well as writing tips about rhyme and rhythm"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WISHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when her brother Jason becomes the prime suspect in the deadly attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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Summary: Because her mind-reading ability tends to spook people, most of Sookie's friends are of the not-exactly-human variety. And now that her brother is about to transform into a were-panther for the first time, the supernatural world is suddenly a family affair. When Sookie realizes a deadly sniper is gunning down the local changelings, her feelings turn to full-blown terror. She needs to stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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Summary: Second graders Ethan and Ella are sad about moving away from their hometown to travel the world with their mom, a journalist, and dad, who will home school them, but before they go they have a mystery to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: "While visiting Alaska, Ethan and Ella follow some icy paw prints that lead to a brand-new mystery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2015
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Summary: "Twins Ethan and Ella are in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and there's another mystery to solve. Where are all the lions? Ethan and Ella spot lots of cool animals, but the one they're most excited about, they can't seem to find"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2006
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Summary: In a Mumbai market, twin detectives Ethan and Ella investigate why a spice seller's spices have suddenly gone bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: Separated from their parents in Beijing, China's Forbidden City, second-grade twins Ethan and Ella luckily find an ancient map that helps them find their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: "In Paris, France, twins Ethan and Ella must find a stolen painting and a secret bakery without giving themselves away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: In this novel told through poems, nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too pleased. Includes primer on rhyme, poetry techniques, rhythm, stanzas, and poetic forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WISBrown, Carrie
Summary: Brown creates from history a compelling story of familial collaboration and conflict, the sublime beauty of astronomy, and the small but essential place we have within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through astronomer William Herschel's sister Lina’s trials and successes, we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness, of a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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Summary: Fearing her dream of becoming a galaxy-traveling starship pilot will never come true when she is sent to Earth's Galileo Academy, Polly teams up with her popular brother to investigate dangerous coincidences centered on their high-profile classmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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Summary: When Max learns that his mommy is going to have a baby, he talks and sings to his unborn sibling but he can't seem to make the baby come out sooner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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Summary: In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: In Venice, Italy, second graders Ethan and Ella hope to find a stolen gondola and a hidden mosaic before their parents realize they are missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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Summary: "Twins Ethan and Ella go on an adventure in Greece, where they learn about the mystery-solving Society of Apollo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2016
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Summary: A little girl takes matters into her own hands after her brother is accidentally born in a zoo and her parents repeatedly bring home the wrong baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MUNSaunders, Paula
Summary: In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions--the ruggedness and the promise--of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where, for most, there are limited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUBrackston, Paula
Summary: "Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Durer the Much Much Younger's Frog Prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now thirty-five and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015