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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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Donelson - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Albus
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JUV Fiction Albus
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Albus
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JUV Fiction Albus
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Richland Park - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Albus
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JUV Fiction Albus
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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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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Athaide
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JUV Fiction Athaide
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Athaide
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JUV Fiction Athaide
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Southeast - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Athaide
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JUV Fiction Athaide
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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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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Avi
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JUV Fiction Avi
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Main Library - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Avi
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JUV Fiction Avi
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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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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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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Behar
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JUV Fiction Behar
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Behar
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JUV Fiction Behar
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Southeast - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Behar
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JUV Fiction Behar
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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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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bradley
1 available
JUV Fiction Bradley
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bradley
1 available
JUV Fiction Bradley
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bradley
1 available
JUV Fiction Bradley
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Bellevue - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Bradley
1 available
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Bradley
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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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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bradley
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JUV Fiction Bradley
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Hadley Park - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bradley
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JUV Fiction Bradley
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Goodlettsville - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book JUV Fiction Bradley
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Talking Book JUV Fiction Bradley
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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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Bellevue - Kids Biography
jB B8815w
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jB B8815w
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Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB B8815w
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jB B8815w
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Southeast - Kids Biography
jB B8815w
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jB B8815w
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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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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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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Charles
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JUV Fiction Charles
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Looby - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Charles
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JUV Fiction Charles
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Thompson Lane - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Charles
1 available
JUV Fiction Charles
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Southeast - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Charles
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Playaway JUV Fiction Charles
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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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Series
Finding Langston volume 1
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Donelson - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Cline-R
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JUV Fiction Cline-R
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Cline-R
1 available
JUV Fiction Cline-R
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Cline-R
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JUV Fiction Cline-R
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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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Goodlettsville - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
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JUV Fiction Curtis
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
Main Library - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
JUV Fiction Curtis
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North - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
Playaway JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
Pruitt - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Curtis
1 available
Playaway JUV Fiction Curtis
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Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Curtis
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Curtis
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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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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Cushman
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YA Fiction Cushman
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Hermitage - Teen Fiction
YA Fiction Cushman
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YA Fiction Cushman
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Main Library - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Cushman
1 available
JUV Fiction Cushman
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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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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Draper
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JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
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Main Library - Kids Audiobook
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
PLAYAWAY JUV Fiction Draper
1 available
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Looby - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Draper
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Draper
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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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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Dumas
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JUV Fiction Dumas
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Dumas
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JUV Fiction Dumas
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Inglewood - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Dumas
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JUV Fiction Dumas
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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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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Frost
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JUV Fiction Frost
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Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Frost
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JUV Fiction Frost
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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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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Frost
1 available
JUV Fiction Frost
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Frost
1 available
JUV Fiction Frost
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Southeast - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Frost
1 available
JUV Fiction Frost
1 available
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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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Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 1
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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Anderso
1 available
JUV Fiction Anderso
1 available
Donelson - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Anderso
1 available
JUV Fiction Anderso
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Anderso
1 available
JUV Fiction Anderso
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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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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Behrens
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JUV Fiction Behrens
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Behrens
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JUV Fiction Behrens
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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.