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11741) The truth about sparrows
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.
11742) Brighton Beach memoirs
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees.
11743) Pappy's handkerchief
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1889, young Moses and his family sell everything they own and leave their Baltimore, Maryland, home to join many other settlers--black and white--in a race to claim land in the newly-opened territory of Oklahoma.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (968 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An average teenager living with her family in Arcadia, Joan is going through more than the average challenges any teen faces: she must somehow make sense of the surprise visits she's been getting - from God.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
330 pages.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
11747) Thursday
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A true friend can help us through anything . . . When a little girl learns about her parents' divorce on a Thursday, it ruins her favorite day of the week. But her stuffed-unicorn friend steps in to help, taking her on adventures to cheer her up and staying by her side to comfort her when feelings are hard. Then, slowly, the little girl and her unicorn friend awaken to the natural world that surrounds them as life continues to shift and change...until...
11748) Rage
Author
Series
Riders of the Apocalypse volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.
11749) Una para los Murphys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Carley usa el humor y su inteligencia de la calle para mantener sus muros emocionales altos y gruesos. Pero el dÃa en que entra en adopción temporal y se muda con los Murphy, es como que le cayera un balde de agua frÃa encima. Esta familia cariñosa y muy activa le muestra a Carley una vida familiar estable que ella nunca pensó podrÃa existir, y se siente como una extraterrestre en ese hogar perfecto. A pesar de su resistencia, los Murphy logran...
11750) Deadman's Castle
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Igor yearns for a normal life, but since he was five and his father witnessed a crime, his family has been on the run from the sinister figure he calls The Lizard Man.
11751) The hideaway
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up...
11753) Make something of it: 1
Author
Series
The Sharp sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shelby aims to be the next great fashion designer, but while working toward her dreams, she discovers some ugly secrets that fashion can't hide: domestic violence. Can she find a way to help the victims? Author Biography.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (304 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 3 movie, 3 DVD set is sure to please any Robin Williams fans.
Zathura: Danny twists the key of an old science fiction game. The game unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet. Besides Danny, his brother Walter and sister Lisa have to go along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut, and an alien spaceship enter the picture. The only way the kids can return their house to its proper...
11755) Some hell: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen's coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father's suicide.
11757) If you really loved me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Destini Fletcher hates Tubman High from day one. When Tyron Becker singles her out, Destini is thrilled to be a part of Tyron's crowd. But he scorns her budding friendships with Alonee, Jaris, and Sami, and mocks her attempts to earn good grades. Do her excuses for Tyron's increasingly brutal behavior and bad attitude put her at risk?"--Publisher's web site.
11758) The doll's eye
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The day Hadley discovers the lone glass eye in the empty attic of her new house is the day her life changes forever"--
11759) Sympathy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and who she believesis her "Internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but--after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence.Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual...
11760) Harley in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Harley, dreams of quitting school to join her parents' Las Vegas circus and when they refuse, she joins a rival circus where she must learn hard truths and face consequences.
With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, Harley Milano spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform. She has dreams she would be up there herself one day, but her parents insist she go to school instead. Harley joins...
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