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41) Kim
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the old man is on a quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment, and together they embark on an adventure through this impoverished, beautiful, chaotic nation in the grip of the Great Game, the conflict during which the British...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menance exists within themselves.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
Twenty fifth anniversary edition, first Vintage International edition
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics.
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
511 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dylan Edbus and Mingus Rude have developed a strong friendship, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is African-American, their friendship is not simple and they struggle to stay connected, despite their vastly different upbringings and societal roles.
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elio, anticipating a boring summer at his parents' home on the Italian coast, finds himself powerfully attracted to Oliver, a handsome young American who has come to assist Elio's father for the summer, and the two young men soon fall into a romantic and sexual relationship that influences the course of their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks...
Author
Series
Immortals (Tamora Pierce) volume 1
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A young boy climbs the hill behind his house and meets thePhoenix who lives there. They begin a practical education that includes finding ways to outwit the scientist who wants to capture and study the Phoenix.
51) The rope walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"When Tim and Alice begin to fall in love, Tim thinks he is finally on the right track, until the unexpected consequences of his drug-addicted and alcoholic past throw a wrench in his new life"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sam Pickett arrives in the small town of Willow Creek, Montana, he wants nothing more than to hide from the violence and madness that have destroyed his life, but instead finds neighbors suffering from the same problems he is.
54) Street boys
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion : an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out-a top secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank...
57) Demon Copperhead
Author
Language
English
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Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Series
Desmond Pucket volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Desmond has been waiting his whole life for this day. It is the sixth-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, home to the awesomely fantastic Mountain Full of Monsters ride, and Desmond has one goal: convince Tina Schimsky to ride it with him. But once inside the amusement park, Desmond finds that executing his master plan will be no simple feat. Accompanied by his best friend, Ricky, Desmond must outwit both the tyrannical Mr. Needles and the nefarious...
Author
Series
Left hand of God trilogy volume 1
Publisher
New American Lib
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Thomas Cale has grown up imprisoned at the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, a fortress run by a secretive sect of warrior monks. He is one of thousands of boys who train all day in hand-to-hand combat, in preparation for a coming holy war. As far as Cale knows, this is the only existence there is--until one day he discovers a door and opens it. Then Cale goes on a journey of danger and discovery, coming to realize that he alone has the...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
There was a time when the world was sweeter . . . when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. . . when something happened to a seventeen year-old boy that would change his life forever
Every April, when the wind blows in from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High
It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He even swore that he had...
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