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1) Feathers
Author
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man from Mars comes to Earth & must learn our strange ways. Annotation. One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 50,000 words cut. Now they have been reinstated for this special 30th anniversary trade edition. A Mars-born earthling arrives on this planet for the first time as an adult, and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons. "A brilliant mind-bender".--Kurt...
4) Starcrossed
Author
Series
Thief errant volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Marne is excited to be able to spend her summer vacation in Hawaii, not realizing the change in her lifestyle it would bring staying with her aunt, seven cousins, and uncle who is a Chasidic rabbi.
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
©2002, ©1998.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tutmose, an apprentice sculptor, and his nearly-blind brother, Ibrim, an apprentice musician, are content at the court of Pharaoh Akhenaten, but their father rages against Pharaoh's rejection of traditional Egyptian gods and plots a deadly revenge.
7) Blind faith
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
61 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven stories and folk tales from the Vikings, packed with warriors and battles, heroes and heroines, Berserkers, monsters, zombies and magic. It includes stories of a greedy dragon guarding a huge hoard of gold, a girl who becomes a swan to protect her warrior love in battle, and a polar bear brought to the king of Denmark as a gift.
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