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1) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game-warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence. The very next day, Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled. Excited and apprehensive about making new friends, she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone -- but they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes's nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go. But Emma Alabama Lane Cake (the only daughter of six children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here, because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again. But Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender, who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
Author
Series
Billy Forrester books volume 1
Language
English
Description
Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure . . ....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
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