Hoffman, Alice
Summary: Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOFLupica, Mike.
Summary: Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LUPGerber, Alyson
Summary: "Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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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 2010LaRocca, Rajani
Summary: Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARRhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RHOBirdsall, Jeanne.
Summary: The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BirBirdsall, Jeanne.
Summary: The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J BIRRhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied...
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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 RHOVrettos, Adrienne Maria
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VREMoses, Will.
Summary: In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOSSniegoski, Tom
Summary: When Kirby, a French bulldog with a serious Napoleon Complex, moves to a new home in the quaint New England town of Strasburg, Massachusetts, and stumbles upon a forgotten secret laboratory, he realizes that his dreams of Planetary Conquest are finally within paw's reach. But, suddenly, Kirby realizes he isn't alone. Seemingly out of nowhere, a strange group of people appear, exhibiting what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Comics 2018
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Summary: Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KONLockhart, E.
Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Twelve-year-old orphan Crow embarks on a journey to discover who her parents were and why they abandoned her as an infant"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2017
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Summary: Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC LOCPennypacker, Sara
Summary: With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to do her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PENLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners, so he created the character of a fearless middle-school history teacher named Rush Revere, who travels back in time and experiences American history as it happens, in adventures with exceptional Americans. In this book, he is transported back to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J LIMDaneshvari, Gitty.
Summary: Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DANPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: In the summer of 1942, when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lives down the road from his family's house in Massachusetts, young William decides to take her some of the blueberries he has picked. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PATYolen, Jane.
Summary: Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1992
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Summary: As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLERoumani, Rhonda
Summary: Set in the early days of the Syrian Civil War, cousins Kareem and Samira living in Massachusetts navigate the growing conflict in Syria, new friendships, and the use of art to express themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROUGreendeer, Danielle
Summary: Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022