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Summary: During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOBCole, Brock.
Summary: In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2011
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE COLSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHBehar, Ruth
Summary: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEHAvi
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction Avi 2011Avi
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2011Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREMackler, Carolyn
Summary: Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MACDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. They’re the toast of the town, keeping New York City buzzing with tales of their lavish parties, of Eliza’s legendary wit, and of Alex’s brilliant legal mind. But new additions to Alex & Eliza’s little family mean change is afoot in the Hamilton household. When they agree to take in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DELGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GRELupica, Mike.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lupica 2010Taylor, Sydney
Summary: The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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Summary: As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Greene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: "What if you, as a girl battling stage fright before a dance recital, suddenly found yourself in Rebecca's world in 1914? Join Rebecca on adventures where the two of you can try out for a vaudeville show, put on a musical, or even sneak into a factory todeliver an important message. Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose, as you select from a variety of options...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014