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Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression.
“A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News
In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing...
“A powerfully moving story.”—Chicago Daily News
In 1932, American's dreams were simple: a job, food to eat, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes. But for millions of people these simple needs were nothing...
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...
63) Drama
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
233 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
64) Canada
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
420 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 624 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend's a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a total life disaster:...
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Series
Language
English
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The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard...
67) Invincible
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Teenager Nick Gautier, having survived a zombie attack, deals with a principal who does not like him, a coach who is trying to recruit him, and a girl with secrets, while struggling to raise the dead before his soul is claimed by demons and shape-shifters.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager-obsessed with music, food, and girls-but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping...
70) Rockaway
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rockaway is a coming of age drama following two brothers, John and Anthony, who have high hopes of a Knicks Championship and a new, easier life, John relies on his older brother and his imagination for protection from their abusive father. They have always just had each other and their secrets, until they meet a group of boys who show them the love and companionship only achieved through the laughs, sweat and tears of sport and boyhood mischief.
71) Stealing cars
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy Wyatt is a young man with tremendous promise, but a troubled past leads him to the Burnsville Camp for Boys. Billy must navigate his way through dangerous inmates and a cruel and punishing staff, but during it all, he learns to inspire others and find out the truth about himself in the process.
72) Ship breaker
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
73) Inferno
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nick finds himself unable to trust anyone but the being he has been warned will ultimately kill him, a situation that is complicated by his efforts to control his abilities and a sacrifice that he must make to defeat an ancient force.
74) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I killed my mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i. e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation in this pulsating debut, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You and Ask Again, Yes"--
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her...
77) I am Alice
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 12
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from the point of view of Alice, best friend "and true love" to Tom, the spook's last apprentice. Alice is the most powerful witch in the world, and she ventures into the dark itself. Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch, possibly the most powerful one the world has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark...
79) Sing Street
Publisher
the Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's...
80) Witch boy
Author
Series
Witch boy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st HarperTempest ed.
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After turning seventeen, Marcus develops unusual powers. When he moves to a new town, he is stunned to be asked to join a coven and to discover that his dog Chuck is his familiar.
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