Summary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Summary: Gooney Bird Greene: There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. She is the star of story time with her "absolutely true" stories. But do her classmates have stories good enough to share?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1987
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Summary: Collects the four giver novels about life in a futuristic society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011
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Summary: Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Summary: Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 2005
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Summary: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2012
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Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other. He then learns the terrible truth about the Community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: Jonas' life assignment is the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets. Witness Jonas's assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOWLowry, Lois
Summary: Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991
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Summary: Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011
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Summary: Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1993
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Summary: Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOWLowry, Lois.
Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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Summary: The four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008