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Summary: The number-one kid: When Mitchell's father gets a new job and his family moves, he and his sister go to a new school where they must make new friends and adjust to new routines.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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Summary: "Set during the Irish Land Wars (1879-1882) this novel in verse follows Anna Mallon through a series of tragedies as her mother dies, older sibling immigrate to America, and she and her father and sister with special needs are about to be evicted from their farm"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2019Giff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: "Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2016Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIFGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: When Mitchell's father gets a new job and his family moves, he and his sister go to a new school where they must make new friends and adjust to new routines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GIFGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: Ronald Morgan is afraid he won't get a medal at camp because he's not especially good at swimming or running or singing, but on Medal Day he discovers what he is really good at.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GIFGiff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: "In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on train to take her to boat back New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2017Giff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: Luke is unhappy about leaving his home and abuelo when his father takes a job at a New York zoo, but soon he has new friends and a mystery to solve. Includes facts about zoo animals and wildlife.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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Summary: During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIFGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Giff 2000Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: Jill's friends know that she has strong arms and hands and so when she is learning to play soccer, they help her to find a position in which she can excel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Giff 2008Giff, Patricia Reilly
Summary: "In 1942 13-year-olds Izzy and Matt become trapped on an Japanese-occupied Aleutian island when the rest of the American population is evacuated and must survive on their own for the duration of World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2018Giff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: When Destiny Washington cannot think of a discovery during Discovery Week at school, she makes up a story, but finds that she cannot keep on pretending it is true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GIFGiff, Patricia Reilly.
Summary: Patti Cake is a little girl with a brand new big girl room and a new, but slightly smudged, doll to keep her company--if her dog Tootsie does not run away with it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2013
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Summary: Almost twelve-year-old Siria, who chases firetrucks in the middle of the night to ensure her fire fighter dad's safety, learns about bravery one winter as she tries to mend a broken friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Giff 2014Summary: A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family PicturesRawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Summary: A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Classics 2001