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English
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Four orphaned siblings, determined to stay together as a family, decide to inhabit an abandoned boxcar and turn it into their new home in the woods. When one of the siblings falls ill, the others go out to seek a doctor to save their sister. Meanwhile, their wealthy grandfather has offered a sizable reward to anyone who has information about his grandchildren, hoping that they can all be reunited once more. As the children continue to evade being...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria:...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jacob visits an orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales where strange children were sent and they may still be alive.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[c1995]
Physical Desc
72p col illus
Language
English
Description
Presents dozens of decorating plans for turning bedrooms into study and play areas and creating innovative storage areas and containers for toys, books, games, and clothes, with a checklist for tools and materials
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
In "The Railway Children", a young family must leave their comfortable London life for a house in the country when their father is taken away unexpectedly. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis spend their days at the nearby train station, befriending the station master and porter and many of the passengers. Waving goodbye to the departing London train each day and sending their love to their father who is detained there, they strike up a friendship with a kindly...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Alden children have a home with their grandfather now, but their adventures are just beginning! The first surprise comes when they learn they'll be spending the summer on their private island. A kind stranger who lives there is always happy to help the children out, but does this new friend have a secret?
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth’s Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks.
Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of...
Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of...
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
154 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Publisher
Hyperion/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
143 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis," the author collects more than one hundred of her family's best-loved poems from all over the world.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.
This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.
Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s...
This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.
Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s...