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1) Mudville
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twenty-two years, since a fateful baseball game against their rival town, it has rained in Moundville, so when the rain finally stops, twelve-year-old Roy, his friends, and foster brother Sturgis dare to face the curse and form a team.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
3) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
5) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
7) Horse camp
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Johnny spies a pheasant which he believes is sleeping and his Grandma fears is dead, but they learn they were both wrong when the pheasant departs, leaving behind a gift.
10) The big crunch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
June is starting at her sixth school in four years when she meets Wes, who has just broken up with a girlfriend, and although they do not share an instant or intense connection, attraction turns to love and they wonder where it will lead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1856, Kirsten and her cousins look after the farm while the adults go to town for supplies, and everything is fine--until a blizzard surprises them.
15) Dancing Carl
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Second Aladdin paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words, and twelve-year-olds Marsh and Willy try to learn his secret.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
19) Slap-shot slump
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At his old school fourteen-year-old Simon Wahlberg was the best player on his hockey team, but when he tries out for the Edgewater High School's varsity team he discovers that the competition is pretty fierce--and not just on the ice.
20) Heaven to Betsy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Betsy and Tacy in their first year of high school.
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