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Author
Series
Mouse Scouts volume 3
Publisher
Yearling, Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Mouse Scouts are hitting the nature trail to earn their 'Camp Out' badge. But not all of the troopers are gung-ho about sleeping beneath the stars. When Miss Poppy goes missing, can the Scouts work together to track down their troop leader?"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Dave Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in California history, tells the story of his adolescent years after he was removed from his home and placed in foster care, and discusses the influence on his life of Dan Brazell, the man he came to regard as his father.
63) Night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
64) Around the block
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Christina Ricci stars in director Sarah Spillane’s inspirational drama, a world premiere at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. With encouragement from a drama teacher (Christina Ricci), a teen in Sydney, Australia (Hunter Page-Lochard) confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future. AROUND THE BLOCK is about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
75) Bad sister
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions. But she's also a bad sister. When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel's tooth, can she redeem herself? Is an accident really an accident if you could have stopped it? But most importantly... What does it mean to be a good sister?
76) Moonlight
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.. 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the ""King of Jazz.""
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring commentary by "Albus Dumbledore," this collection of tales from the world of Harry Potter includes "The wizard and the hopping pot," "The fountain of fair fortune," "The warlock's hairy heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and her cackling stump," and "The tale of the three brothers."
80) Sittwe
Publisher
Jeanne Hallacy
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Burmese
Description
Banned in Burma (Myanmar), Sittwe is a story about two teenagers from opposing sides of deadly religious and ethnic conflict. The film gives voice to the youth in a deeply divided society, to create space for dialogue about reconciliation. Phyu Phyu Than is a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint is a Buddhist boy. Both saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Five years later, Phyu Phyu Than is languishing in an apartheid style...
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