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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Books and reading Fiction Brewster, Lily (Fictitious character) Fiction Brewster, Robert (Fictitious character) Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Fantasy Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Fiction New York (State) Fiction Orphans FictionEsbaum, Jill
Summary: Provides practical advice for a young dinosaur when a baby brother arrives, such as the good news that he will be toddling soon, but the bad news that he will not know what is dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESBChurchill, Jill
Summary: Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUChurchill, Jill
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUChurchill, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUChurchill, Jill
Summary: Always looking for a way to keep Grace & Favor Cottage, former high-society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster agree to help out during a staff shortage at a nursing home, but after two deaths at the home, the Brewsters help the police search for a cold-blooded criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUShalvis, Jill
Summary: "Piper Manning's about as tough as they come, she's had to be. She raised her siblings and they've thankfully flown the coop. All she has to do is finish fixing up the lake house her grandparents left her, sell it, and then she's free. When a massive storm hits, she runs into a tall, dark and brooding stranger, Camden Reid. There's a spark there, one that shocks her. Surprising her further, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAChurchill, Jill
Summary: Working at a local nursing home to help preserve Grace and Favor Cottage, former high society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster investigate the suspicious death of a patient despite a challenging number of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUMcIntosh, Will
Summary: Orphaned and homeless, fourteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara, who is autistic, go up against a crime lord and her four-legged robotic army, with help from their robotic dog, Daisy.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCIHill, Jonathan
Summary: "Eight years ago an earthquake--the Big One--hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HILWissinger, Tamera Will.
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 WISWissinger, 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 WISNye, Bill
Summary: When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Fiction Series NyeCotter, Bill
Summary: Brother and sister Chance and Pauline must risk it all to return to the magical realm that exists deep below the ground to warn its inhabitants about a miner threatening to destroy their world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COTNye, Bill
Summary: Jack, his genius siblings, and inventor Hank Witherspoon go to Hawaii and help technology billionaire Ashley Hawking find out who is sabotaging her revolutionary electric plant that harvests energy from the deep ocean. Includes facts about the deep ocean,the scientific process, and green power, as well as instructions for an experiment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Fiction Series NyeNye, Bill
Summary: Traveling to Antarctica for a prestigious science competition, twelve-year-old Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, become caught up in a mystery involving a missing scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Fiction Series NyeBell, David
Summary: "The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers's door . . . and it's his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she's clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor--she asks Jason and his wife to take care of her teenage daughter for forty-eight hours while she handles some business in town. But Hayden never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BELPatterson, James
Summary: "Although Whit and Wisty's magic and their control over it have matured, they still find themselves helpless to prevent the one who is the one from destroying everyone and everything they hold dear. But there's a reckoning on the horizon, and the siblings have no choice but to devise a strategy to topple with one decisive blow the tyrant who has devastated their world before he becomes truly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WITPatterson, James.
Summary: Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: LP YA FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KONPatterson, James
Summary: "For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PATColumbus, Chris
Summary: "With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought life would finally go back to normal. But things don't remain calm for long... especially when the colossus Fat Jagger turns up in San Francisco Bay--and he's in danger! With the police closing in, the Walkers must figure out how to save their giant friend. When a frost beast is spotted in Santa Rosa--and more mystical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLColumbus, Chris
Summary: The Walker children's struggle to fit in at a new school is complicated by the return of Dahlia Kristoff, who casts Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia back into book worlds, from which escape will be more difficult than before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC COLColumbus, Chris.
Summary: Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013