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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelve-year-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-of-war camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and truly be free.
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Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
Author
Series
Witches of Brooklyn volume 3
Publisher
RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Effie is sent off to the wilderness for summer camp without her friends, but she hopes to learn some cool new magic and meet new witch friends.
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 5
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As Winnie and her friends count the days until the beginning of high school, they attend a summer camp where they learn about sea turtles--as well as human relationships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Emma, Jess, Megan, Becca, and Cassidy go to Camp Lovejoy in New Hampshire to serve as counselors and when some of the young campers are stricken with homesickness, the friends decide to start a summer camp book club.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2020, Lauren Markham went to Greece to cover the burning of a refugee camp on Lesbos. Some said the refugees had done it, to destroy what had become their prison. Others said it was the island's fascists, or the government itself, enraged at the burden they bore for an overwhelming global problem. Soon-too soon-six young Afghan refugees were arrested. As she immersed herself in the reporting, Markham-an American of Greek heritage who had been working...
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Rick Riordan's novel, demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and true life story of Kimiko Murakami, a Japanese-Canadian pioneer and internment camp survivor, beautifully illustrated for a young audience. Ganbaru is a Japanese word that means to keep going during hard times and never give up. During the Second World War, she was among the 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were sent to live in internment camps because they were seen as "enemy aliens." This book celebrates her achievements, courage,...
12) The Jake show
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For TV-obsessed Jake Lightman, his parents' divorce is like his favorite show getting canceled: The worst. Now he's stuck between playing the role of 'Yaakov' for his mother and 'Jacob' for his father. On Jake's first day at a new school, Caleb and Tehilla barrel into his life. Suddenly, he has two friends who seem to like the real Jake. And when they invite him to Camp Gershoni for the summer, Jake knows he has to go--even if his parents won't let...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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