Peck, Richard
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PECLowry, Lois.
Summary: At the annual Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is chosen for something special as his life assignment. This leads him to The Giver, a man who holds all the memories of the past. Through this man, Jonas learns the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2000
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Perkins, Lynne Rae.
Summary: Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2005
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Cooper, Susan
Summary: A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COOFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1987
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN FREGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1967
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KONMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Presents the three stories about mail-order bride Sarah and her life on the prairie with her new husband Jacob and stepchildren Anna and Caleb.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MACArmstrong, William Howard
Summary: Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1969
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARMEstes, Eleanor
Summary: When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been adbucted by a stranger in a yellow hat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ESTJames, Will
Summary: Follows the experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMKeith, Harold
Summary: With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. When he infiltrates Colonel Watie's Confederate camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself -- only fighting for a different cause.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 1957
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic KeithKonigsburg, E. L.
Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KONCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Curtis 1999Enright, Elizabeth
Summary: A summer full of happiness and good times begins after a little girl finds a silver thimble at the swimming hole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1938
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENRNaylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NAYPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1977
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JF Classic PattersonRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC RylanSperry, Armstrong
Summary: Based on a Polynesian legend, a young Polynesian boy, whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SPEDiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction DiCamillo 2003Krumgold, Joseph
Summary: Miguel lives with his family on a sheep ranch in New Mexico. More than anything else, he longs to go with the men to the Sangre de Christo Mountains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KRUPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels at odds with aspects of modern life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1985
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 1985Vanderpool, Clare.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Vanderpool 2010De Angeli, Marguerite
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989