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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Dan Mills Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Dupont Elementary - Kids Fiction
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When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction
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In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.--
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Eakin Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Hickman Elementary - Kids Fiction
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As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Fiction
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A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F BRA
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Chadwell Elementary - Kids Audiobook
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Audiobook
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
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When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan, Waka struggles...
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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With a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt and unexpected help from her Hallelujah-spouting cousin, Henry James, Elsie Mae tries to prevent a company from building a canal through the Okefenokee Swamp.
11) Like Vanessa
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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F Cha
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Cha
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Cha
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Antioch Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Apollo Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Audiobook
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It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
12) Finding Langston
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Finding Langston volume 1
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
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After his mother's death in 1946, eleven-year-old Langston and his father leave behind their quiet life in Alabama and move to Chicago. Struggling to fit in and missing his mother, Langston finds refuge at the local library where, unlike his library in Alabama, blacks are just as welcome as whites to use. There he discovers the poetry of Langston Hughes and a secret--he was named after this very poet whose work his mother loved.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
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F Cur
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Audiobook
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Cole Elementary - Kids Audiobook
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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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Lakeview Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Madison Middle - Teen Fiction
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What follows will be my book -- the book of Catherine, called Little Bird or Birdy, daughter of Rollo and the lady Aislinn, sister to Thomas, Edward, and the abominable Robert. Begun this 19th day of September in the year of Our Lord 1290. Picked off twenty-nine fleas today. Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father wants only to see her married off, and...
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Donelson Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Audiobook
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
17) All he knew
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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Glengarry Elementary - Kids Audiobook
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Julia Green Elementary - Kids Audiobook
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Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.
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Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Beh
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In 1967, unhappy with her newly-blended family, twelve-year-old Bea agrees to accompany Pidge, her grandmother, to Atchison, Kansas, where Pidge believes her long-lost sister, Amelia Earhart, will meet them. Includes historical notes, a brief biography, quotations from the Earharts, and resources for educators.