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Author
Series
Running out of time volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
4) Honey
Author
Language
English
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
Author
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Emma, a freshman at Indiana University, has enough trouble trying to figure out relationships but when her father wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, life becomes even more confusing and complicated.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Daredevil eleven-year-old Billie has an exciting summer, in spite of her overprotective stepfather, when she figures out where her father and uncle are hiding after robbing a bank and enlists her cousin's help in convincing them to surrender.
15) Rosetown summer
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1973, Flora loves living in the quiet town of Rosetown, Indiana, where change is not constant, but life takes a decided turn during the summer between fourth and fifth grades.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 138 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
18) The best at it
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
19) Teen idol
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Indiana wilderness in 1821, twelve-year-old Nelly Vandorn and her older brother hold fast to their rough frontier ways when their father brings home a fancy new city wife not long after burying their mother.
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