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English
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.
5) Girlchild
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st Picador ed
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Obsessively following the edicts of the Girl Scouts Handbook in spite of her lack of a troop, young Rory longs to escape the Reno trailer park where she lives with her bartender mother.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large type edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
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English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a...
9) Summer ball
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Series
Danny Walker volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Travel Team", thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
12) Bad luck
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clay's adventures at a magical camp continue as he befriends a new ally and faces new adversaries in his journey to find his magical talent and solve new mysteries of Price Island"--
13) Detective camp
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Series
Physical Desc
130 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While learning detective skills at summer camp, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings. Includes a hidden message.
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Series
The Zack files volume 19
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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After hearing stories that a Bigfoot-like monster is haunting Camp Weno-wanna-getta-wedgee, ten-year-old Zack begins to find evidence that the legend may be true.
Author
Series
Sunny Sweet volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Masha has looked forward to spending summer vacation with her father at a South Dakota dude ranch, but her "evil genius" little sister, Sunny, arranges for them to go to a mathematics camp in Maine, instead.
16) Withering tights
Author
Series
Misadventures of Tallulah Casey volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father's business into a highly profitable...
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Series
Christmas camp volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348, 14 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
NOW A HALLMARK CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIEFrom the screenwriter of the Netflix Original viral hit, A Christmas Prince, comes another heartwarming holiday story about a beautiful Grinch who's determined to get her dream job even if it means spending a week at a Christmas Camp where she discovers an unexpected love.Haley Hanson's idea of the perfect Christmas is escaping to the Caribbean to work so she can avoid all the traditional Christmas distractions....
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