Jones, Kimberly
Summary: When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC JONStone, Phoebe
Summary: During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STOSockabasin, Allen J.
Summary: "Little Zoo Sap and his family are moving from their summer home on the coast to the deep woods for the winter, traveling on a big bobsled pulled by big horses through the snow. When Zoo Sap falls off of the sled unnoticed, the forest animals hear his cries. First to come are the beaver, who put their tails together to cradle him. Then all the other animals circle round--everyone from the tiny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2014
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Summary: Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OLIPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for hislife, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLILord, Cynthia
Summary: On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LORChandler, Matt
Summary: Quincy is on his first black bear hunting trip in Maine, when he breaks his leg and has to depend on his friends to recover the bear he shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHABirdsall, Jeanne.
Summary: When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BIRBlake, Ashley Herring
Summary: For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAVanderpool, Clare.
Summary: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boys' boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: Two children find buried dolls while digging for worms, the dolls come alive and cause trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioCraft 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction RanLightman, Alan P.
Summary: "Ada knows that the best place for star-gazing is on the island in Maine where she vacations with her grandparents. By day, she tracks osprey in the trees, paddles a kayak, and hunts for shells. But she's most in her element when the sun goes down and the stars blink to life. Will the fog this year foil her plans, or will her grandfather find a way to shine a spotlight on the vast puzzle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Kids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIGLord, Cynthia
Summary: Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injured bird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LORRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISLanger, Dana
Summary: "Lolly Salt's three sisters are sirens--young women who lure ships to their doom--and as Lolly's 13th birthday approaches she's about to become one too. But when it becomes clear that someone in town knows the Salt girls secret, Lolly sets out to learn how this happened to her family and if she can prevent it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LANSzabo, Rose
Summary: Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SZASchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHVanderpool, Clare.
Summary: "Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VANCurran, Kitty
Summary: Molly Dade has big problems. She's got an important violin audition coming up, she's been paired with her nemesis for a group project, and she's struggling to hide a life-or-death secret from...well, from everyone. It wasn't long ago that the Dades were just a regular Maine family living in their reportedly haunted house in the local cemetery. But then Molly's mom and twin brother Marty were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023
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Summary: A fictionalized account of how Spot, a springer spaniel living on Penobscot Bay in the 1930's, loves to ring the lighthouse bell, and uses that skill to guide the mailboat safely through a storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PERWhaley, Kayla
Summary: Young sleuths Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel are excited to search for clues of a cougar near Abbi's home, but they soon discover something more might be going on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED WHALord, Cynthia
Summary: When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC LORVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009