Collins, Ailynn
Summary: "After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Hawkins, Paula
Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWCleeves, Ann
Summary: In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLEWeightman, Magnus
Summary: A seek-and-find river journey through forests, farms, waterfalls and harbors finds Bunny Rabbit and her brothers searching for a lost toy duck while navigating the river and wondering where the mysteriously mischievous Speedy Pigs are going in such a hurry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEISummary: "Dad takes Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie to the creek after they grow tired of playing at the playground. But Bluey doesn't like the thorns, or the spiders, or the pointy rocks, or ... the leeches! She struggles to find the fun. Can Bluey learn to step out of her comfort zone and try new things?"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: "Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It's said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived. Eden White knows that isn't true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow--and live. Delphine now lives in careful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARHawkins, Paula
Summary: "The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HAWHawkins, Paula
Summary: When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWDee, Barbara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Haven channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into a fight against the factory suspected of polluting the river running through her town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2019
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Summary: "A spunky young girl decides to sell lemonade on a hot summer day, venturing out all the way to the river's end where she finds some unexpected and fantastical clientele"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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Contents: River teeth: a definition -- Red coats -- Rose vegetables -- Her idiots -- Giving normal the finger -- A streetlamp in the Netherlands -- Kali's personal -- Another brutal Indian attack -- Northwest passage -- The garbage man's daughter -- The Mickey Mantle Koan -- Yellowjacket -- Molting -- First native -- Not rocking the boats -- My one conversation with Collin Walcott -- The king of Epoxy --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DuncaAndrews, Ryan
Summary: Ben and his friends are determined to find out where the paper lanterns of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival go, so they follow the river as far as they can until the only followers left are Ben and Nathaniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ANDLaMarche, Jim.
Summary: Reluctuant Nicky spends a wonderful summer with Grandma who introduces him to the joy of rafting down the river near her home and watching the animals along the banks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction LaMarche 2000Morris, Richard T.
Summary: An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MORAmerikaner, Susan
Summary: Anna and Elsa begin a search in the forest for a mysterious white river, which may hold the answer to why Elsa has an ability for magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019