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Author
Series
Young Americans volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life.
23) Far from you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages, 25 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel-in-verse about sixteen-year-old Ali's reluctant road trip with her stepmother and new baby sister, and the terror that ensues after they end up lost in the snow-covered woods.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
170 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Roman widow shows unusual interest in Flavia's father, Flavia decides to discover Cartila's true motives by performing twelve tasks, just like the Greek hero Hercules.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
27) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly can remember, it's always just been her and Dad. Dad, who likes to splash in the pool, who likes to spin at the park, who bakes the best cookies around. But that was before Dad married Ms. Too. Ms. Too doesn't like to splash. She doesn't like to spin. And she can't bake anything. "But Molly, you used to love Ms. Too." That was before, when she was Molly's favorite librarian. Now everything has changed. But as Molly and Ms. Too...
28) Chime
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperChildren's Audio
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, " Sarah writes Papa. And so begins the journey for Sarah, Papa, Anna and Caleb in Patricia MacLachlan's masterpiece, Sarah, Plain and Tall. In Skylark, a drought turns the land dry and brown and Sarah takes Anna and Caleb back to the city as Papa stays behind. Will the family ever be reunited? Caleb's Story continues the saga of Sarah and her family on the prairie. All the beloved...
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