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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
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.
3) Girlchild
Author
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
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
6) Summer ball
Author
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.
7) Bad luck
Author
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"--
Author
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 MOVIE
From 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....
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...
12) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Rebellions are built on hope. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of new friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards." --
14) The Clover Girls
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz,...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
42 pages : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sara tries to take care of her younger brother when he is teased and called Bernadette at summer camp, but he finds an activity that he enjoys and that gives him the chance to shed his new nickname for good.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When privileged white sixteen-year-old Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a mysterious camp employee. As the connection between them grows, Lucky and Cindra become lovers and escape into the Rocky Mountains to create an idyllic life, living off Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness. But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together...
Author
Series
Fluffy bunnies volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Camp Whatsitooya, twins Joules and Kevin and new friend Nelson face off against large, rabbit-like creatures from the Mallow Galaxy who thrive on sugar, but are not above hypnotizing and eating human campers.
19) Space camp
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 14
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Will troublesome cabin mates ruin Zack's summer at space camp on the planet Sylvan?
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