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1) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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English
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
3) Night
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English
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a way back online. Thanks to some unexpected friendships, Sunny might be surprised by the connections she makes when she is forced to disconnect....
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English
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"Four former friends are transported back in time to a pivotal summer in all of their lives during a camp reunion"--
Joy, Tali, Luce and Zoe were once best friends... now they barely speak. That is, until the fateful flash of a photo-booth camera transports them back in time, to the summer they were fifteen-- the summer everything changed. Photos fade. Friendships dissolve. Summers end. But this one will change the girls forever... again....
8) Girlchild
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship... When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever...
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Series
Shadow Falls novels volume 4
Publisher
St Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even at a camp for supernatural teens, Kylie Galen has never been normal. Not only can she see ghosts but she doesn't seem to belong to any one species, instead she exhibits traits from them all. Her boyfriend Lucas, seems to be having problems accepting her for what she is and what she isn't. With his werewolf pack standing in the way, Kylie finds herself turning to Derek who seems willing to accept the impossible. As if life isn't hard enough, she...
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English
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Stevie Bell managed to solve the mystery at Ellingham Academy. Then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines-- formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls, the site of the infamous Box in the Woods murders. The new camp owner wants Stevie to help him work on a true-crime podcast about the unsolved case. Going undercover as a camp counselor, Stevie learns that something evil still lurks at the camp-- and will is willing to make room for more victims.--...
12) Nightmare
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.
13) Wild blue wonder
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Language
English
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Last June, the summer camp Quinn's family owns in Winship, Maine, was still a magical place, and Quinn fell in love with her best friend, Dylan. Then the accident happened. Now it's winter; the magic has drained from Quinn's life. The new boy in town, Alexander, doesn't see her as the monster she believes herself to be. And as Quinn lets herself open up again, she begins to understand the truth about love, loss, and monsters-- real and imagined. --...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
15) The lake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Esme and Kayla were campers at Camp Pine Lake, and this year they are excited to be back as CITs (counselors in training). But the girls did something bad when they were campers, and have kept it a secret all these years. They've moved on, and this summer is going to be great. Two months of sun, s'mores, and flirting with the cute boy counselors. Until they get a note: The lake never forgets. It seems the secret they've kept buried for so many years...
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Series
Hundred Oaks volume 3
Language
English
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Seeking God's forgiveness for a past sin, eighteen-year-old Kate finds summer employment at a church camp, where she is tempted to have a fling with co-counselor Matt.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses life in a Nazi concentration camp, including typical conditions in the camps, daily life, organization and implementation, extermination through labor, and surviving against all odds.
20) The goats
Author
Publisher
Farrar/Straus/Giroux
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.
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