Wingate, Lisa
Summary: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force.Thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children find themselves at the mercy of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WinTwain, Mark
Summary: Two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWATwain, Mark
Summary: When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir to the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWADickens, Charles
Summary: The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC DICDickens, Charles
Summary: Charles Dickens' classic tale of orphan Philip Pirrip. Struggling to grow into a gentleman, Philip faces many truths about the world around him and ultimately himself as his expectations are tested and questioned.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DICBarnes, Steven.
Summary: An experimental technique to teach high-risk children the strategies that will allow them to succeed in life takes a nightmarish turn when it is discovered that the model for the project had a terrifying secret life that has been passed on to the children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Struggling to keep the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor running, Christina Willems turns to reclusive mill owner Levi Jonnson to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. When an old adversary challenges Christina, will she find an unlikely ally --or more-- in the aloof Levi? Can Levi reconcile with the rejection that led to his hermit-like existence and open his heart and life to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sawyer 2013Nyznyk, Darryl.
Summary: Sarah Stone and Jared Roberts are both angry at the world. Sarah, though wealthy and seemingly lacking for nothing, is angry because her father is too busy for her. Jared who lives in an inner city and comes from a broken home is angry because life is unfair and hard. Jared determines to do something about it and decides to rob Sarah's house immediately before Christmas. Into the lives of these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cross Dove Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NYZSidney, Margaret
Summary: Fatherless children, happy in spite of their impoverished condition, want to surprise their mother on her birthday. But how can they when they have no money?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SIDDickens, Charles
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lightning Source Inc 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICVasconcelos, José Mauro de
Summary: "When Zezé grows up, he wants to be a poet in a bow tie. For now the precocious young boy entertains himself by playing clever pranks on the residents of his Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, stunts for which his parents and siblings punish him severely. Lately, with his father out of work, the beatings have become harsher. Zezé's only solace comes from his time at school, his hours secretly spent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't afford to pay for. That's Jess's life in a nutshell -- until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess's knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOYPerry, Anne.
Summary: Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERDickens, Charles
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICHall, Michael
Summary: Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAL BASKETPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLJames, Hollis
Summary: "Michelangelo discovers an amazing creature in the sewer. Is it a friend, an enemy, or a monster?"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Cepeda, Joe
Summary: A boy rides a pogo stick to a visit with Grandma.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Summary: Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIL'Heureux, Christine
Summary: A little boy named Caillou gets to play games with his parents and learns about not being afraid in the dark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chouette 2006