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Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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When a frontier baron known as the Commodore orders Charlie and Eli Sisters, his hired gunslingers, to track down and kill a prospector named Herman Kermit Warm, the brothers journey from Oregon to San Francisco, and eventually to Warm's claim in the Sierra foothills, running into a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.
Author
Language
English
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Enger tells the story of eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and its remarkable conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies,...
44) Birdie and me
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Language
English
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"After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mama's two brothers each try to provide one--first sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrick--the results are funny, tender, and tragic. They're also somehow .. . spectacular. With voices and characters that soar off the page, J. M. M. Nuanez's debut novel depicts an unlikely family caught in a situation none of them would have chosen, and the beautiful...
45) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Language
English
Description
A tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, in which the four Willoughby children set out to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
""Fraternal twin brothers Peter and Michael McDowell have spent a lifetime competing for success and affection before that competition turned into an all-out war and made the brothers mortal enemies. While both Peter and Michael have grown into successful adults, they never managed to leave behind the animosity that took root in their childhood. With the collapse of his career and his marriage, Peter sees no other option than to move into the lake...
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emily loses control of her Amulet, she is imprisoned in the Void, where she must escape the influence of the Voice, while her brother, Navin, travels to a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces.
Author
Series
Charlie and Mouse volume 2
Fountas & Pinnell
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Language
English
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Description
Brothers Charlie and Mouse enjoy a special visit from Grumpy.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Language
English
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
52) Digger man
Author
Series
Digger man volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy imagines how he will use his digger to make a park where he and his little brother can play.
53) Little Champ
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bobby and Gina visit their grandparents on Lake Champlain and learn about the legendary monster that supposedly inhabits the lake.
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 2
Language
English
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
55) The city below
Author
Series
Doyle Brothers volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
A continuation of the family saga portrayed in the author's earlier novel Mortal friends. The Doyle brothers come of age in Boston during the 1960s, a time of political and social upheaval.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Language
English
Description
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their picture-perfect Cotswold village family life with a perpetually young father and hippy mother is shattered by a tragic Easter weekend, four siblings pursue separate adult lives before a reunion reveals astonishing truths.
59) The Moffats
Author
Series
Language
English
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Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once, after a bountiful pumpkin harvest, as four brothers dispose of unneeded seeds, the seeds suddenly go flying with the wind and cover the town below, but the brothers think nothing more about it.
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