Hale, Kathleen
Summary: "The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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Summary: "After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the attic. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRIWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Colorfully illustrated story of an eagle that inspired a Wisconsin infantry unit in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARWilkes, Maria D.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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Summary: Introduces "the timeline of key discoveries in human fossils, and [explores] how scientists continue to link together the evolution of humanity using evidence from the past"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 569.9 HYDWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WILHenkes, Kevin
Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HENBrink, Carol Ryrie
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BRISummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILTieck, Sarah
Summary: Presents basic information about Wisconsin, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.5 TIEBrink, Carol Ryrie
Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1973
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRIHeld, Barbara.
Summary: After a fight with her mom, eleven-year-old Jennifer is sent back in time fiftry years. A city girl, she discovers she is now on a farm in Wisconsin. Petrified and confused, she tells her "new" parents she is not their daughter, Julie, but they do not believe her. Diagnosed with amnesia, Jennifer plays along, rather than be called crazy. After meeting Julie's best friend, Grace, the two try to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbara Held 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HELWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A little girl and her pioneer family spend a summer in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WilderAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALESwanson, Shari
Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SWABenton-Banai, Edward
Summary: Recounts the legends, customs, and history of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BENHannigan, Katherine.
Summary: In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANNIZimmermann, Laura
Summary: Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and her younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMNorth, Sterling
Summary: The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NORWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: J CD WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILBick, Ilsa J.
Summary: While serving in Afghanistan, Ben writes about incidents from his senior year in a small-town Wisconsin high school, when a neighbor he was trying to help out becomes the victim of an apparent hate crime and Ben falls under suspicion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BICAtkinson, Elizabeth
Summary: Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Atkinson 2010Rubalcaba, Jill.
Summary: When did language begin? How did early humans populate the globe? By looking closely at four of the most significant hominins ever discovered, the authors explain how Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman have influenced debates about the nature of the earliest members of the family Hominidae.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2010