Grey, Melissa
Summary: "Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREBrooks, Victor.
Summary: Describes the battles that took place at six different forts during the Civil War: Sumter, Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg, Wagner, and Fisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 BROFang, Vicky
Summary: Blink and Block find a pile of boxes perfect for making a fort, but when the friendly competition starts heating up, will they be able to work together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FANMacaulay, David
Summary: In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design MacaulayMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The Garcia's new refrigerator comes in a big box. Carlos and Carmen turn the box into a rocket, then a submarine. Then the twins finally decide to make the box a fort. But it's a crumpled fort. It's a flat fort. Discover how Carlos and Carmen don't let a flattened box ruin their fun!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MCDGravett, Christopher
Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 623 GRAMacaulay, David.
Summary: Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.19 MAC2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.19429 MAC
Frye, David
Summary: "A survey of walls throughout history and their role in shaping society."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FRYHogg, Ian V.
Summary: This book traces the development of fortifications from the first primitive mud walls, through the great castles of the Middle Ages, to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.1 HOGMoss, Miriam.
Summary: Brief text and labeled illustrations discuss the history and architecture of several forts and castles, focusing on the protection they afforded and mechanisms used in siege against them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree Steck-Vaughn 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 MOSToy, Sidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.7094 TOYMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The imaginations of twins Carlos and Carmen soar as they play with the box their new refrigerator came in, even after it seems too flat to be any more fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCDPatrick, Bethanne Kelly.
Summary: Describes the construction, purpose, daily life, and inhabitants of six Western forts, Fort Clatsop, the Presidio, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Laramie, Fort Sill, and Fort Hood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 PATGarrett, Bradley L.
Summary: Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 GARGravett, Christopher
Summary: "Discover the medieval world of castles -- how they were built and what life was like inside them"--from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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Summary: Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ELLGravett, Christopher
Summary: Examines methods of defending and attacking castles and what day to day life was like inside a castle in medieval times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2004
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Summary: "The baddest men in the West battle for their lives against a relentless band of bloodthirsty prairie rats in Fort Misery - first in an electrifying new Western series. Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman was once a promising career soldier who'd proven his mettle in battle time and again. Now he's fighting a battle with a whiskey bottle. He's also in charge of Fort Benjamin Grierson, located west...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHStephenson, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 SteHavighurst, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1966
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.48 HAVCall number: MI 977.48 HAV
Johnstone, William W.
Summary: "Former US Marine Patrick Larkin purchased shares in a high-tech shelter built in an abandoned underground silo. When disaster strikes, he and his family are among the lucky ones locked inside. With the bunker pushed to its limits, tensions rise and panic erupts when marauders attempt to invade the bunker"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Johnstone 2018Bodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: After his parents, two sisters and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BODGravett, Christopher
Summary: Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, the important rooms, the people who lived in them, and what castle life was like.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 725 GRAMurray, Paul
Summary: "The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023