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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J DiCamillo
7 available
J DiCamillo
7 available
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11 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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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.
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Playaway Device - North Wing Top Floor
PLAYAWAY J Avi
1 available
PLAYAWAY J Avi
1 available
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
23) A single shard
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Park
2 available
J Park
2 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Park
1 available
T Park
1 available
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate ceramics himself.
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Peck
2 available
J Peck
2 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Peck
2 available
T Peck
2 available
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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.
25) Bud, not Buddy
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, leaves a bad foster home in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
26) Holes
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Sachar
4 available
J Sachar
4 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Sachar
2 available
T Sachar
2 available
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17 copies, 91 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
27) Out of the dust
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression.
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Konigsburg
1 available
J Konigsburg
1 available
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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.
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Junior Fiction - Display (Children's Fiction)
J Cushman
1 available
J Cushman
1 available
Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Cushman
1 available
J Cushman
1 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Cushman
2 available
T Cushman
2 available
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In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and, in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
30) Walk two moons
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Playaway Device - North Wing Top Floor
PLAYAWAY J Creech
1 available
PLAYAWAY J Creech
1 available
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route; along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
31) The giver
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Lowry
1 available
J Lowry
1 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Lowry
3 available
T Lowry
3 available
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43 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Teen Fiction (Large Print) - South Wing Basement
T Lowry
1 available
T Lowry
1 available
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
32) Missing May
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After the death of her beloved aunt (who has raised her), 12-year-old Summer, with her uncle Ob, leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
33) Shiloh
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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 mistreat his dogs.
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Junior Fiction - Display (Children's Fiction)
J Spinelli
1 available
J Spinelli
1 available
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6 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionell Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
35) Number the stars
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19 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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22 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Junior Nonfiction - North Wing Top Floor
J 811 F628
6 available
J 811 F628
6 available
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In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleishman verbally re-creates the "booming/boisterous/joyful noise" of insect. the Poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the dron of the honey bee. Eric Beddows's vibrarnt drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own way.
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Junior Nonfiction - North Wing Top Floor
J 921 Lincoln
4 available
J 921 Lincoln
4 available
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The Newbery Medal–winning book for young readers presents “a human portrait of a politician honorably confronting the most vexing issues of his era” (The New York Times Book Review).
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully...
Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. This Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil War president is warm, appealing, and illustrated with dozens of carefully...
38) The whipping boy
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A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J MacLachaln
3 available
J MacLachaln
3 available
Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J MacLachlan
3 available
J MacLachlan
3 available
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When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
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Junior Fiction - Display (Children's Fiction)
J McKinley
1 available
J McKinley
1 available
Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J McKinley
2 available
J McKinley
2 available
Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T McKinley
1 available
T McKinley
1 available
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.