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221) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's classic novel "Huckleberry Finn" about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
From the dream team behind #1 New York Times bestseller Indeh comes a graphic novel following a father and son as they navigate an increasingly catastrophic day. Set against the quiet and unassuming city of Huntsville, Texas, Jack "Meadowlark" Johnson, and his teenage son, Cooper embark on a journey of epic proportions. Told over the course a single day, this electrifying graphic novel recounts Cooper's struggle to survive the consequences of his...
Author
Series
Rewilding reports volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
225) Onward
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two teenage elf brothers, Barley and Ian, embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left in a world that now prefers cars and gadgets to winged steeds and enchanted staffs. Along the way, they will have to battle angry sprites, traverse a bottomless pit, and face unexpected dangers.
226) All things left wild
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb's moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill. Wealthy and bookish Randall Dawson, out of place in this rugged and violent country, is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
"Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Company
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (10.5 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.
A coming-of-age story, a tale of deep friendship, and a mystery of identity. In the South in 1964, two companions...
230) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
272 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
232) Dominicana
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Llega la novela m�as autobiogr�afica de Jos�e Luis Perales. Una emotiva y tierna historia en la que el cantante y escritor ahonda a trav�es de la ficci�on en su infancia, su formaci�on, sus deseos y el comienzo de su pasi�on por la m�usica. Lo que m�as le gusta en el mundo es pasar el verano con sus abuelos, Jos�e y Valentina, en el pueblo: El Castro. Juntos dan paseos por el r�io, pescan, juegan y charlan de todo un poco. En...
234) Blackbird fly
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (approximately 5 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming 'too American.' When Apple's friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
834 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tale of two cities: A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is loved by two men: she marries one and the other saves her husband from the guillotine.
Great expectations: The orphaned Pip is serving as a blackmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"A leading Latin American writer effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship in Chile. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on her...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks. Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for...
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