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1) Finding home
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this story loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, seventeen-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride.
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School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they wont forget. In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends and that adventure awaits in the everyday. They just have to look for...
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Series
Lola Levine volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Lola Levine is given a non-speaking part after getting stage fright during her class play audition. She saves the play after a couple of obstacles with the help of her grandmother"--
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Out from Egypt volume 3
Description
Cossette Consistently Brings the Old Testament to Life in an Engrossing, Fresh New Way Alanah, a Canaanite, is no stranger to fighting and survival. When her family is killed in battle with the Hebrews, she disguises herself and sneaks onto the battlefield to avenge her family. The one thing she never counted on was surviving. Tobiah, a Hebrew warrior, is shocked to find an unconscious, wounded woman among the Canaanite casualties. Compelled to bring...
Author
Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"Loujain watches her beloved baba attach his feather wings and fly each morning, but her own dreams of flying face a big obstacle: only boys, not girls, are allowed to fly in her country. Yet despite the taunts of her classmates, she is determined to do it--especially because Loujain loves colors, and only by flying can she see the color-filled field of sunflowers her baba has told her about. Eventually, he agrees to teach her, and Loujain's impossible...
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Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
"One tiny church mouse must find a way to bring the Christmas spirit to his little town when Parson gets sick and the usual Christmas Eve service is canceled. Mouse never gives up hope as he prepares the nativity set and lights a small candle in the window to signal the villagers. Mouse's small act of faith sparks a chain reaction of hope and love, demonstrating that even the smallest creature can make a big difference"--
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"A new girl has joined Lola Levine's second-grade class. When they get off on the wrong foot, they are forced to spend time together ... and learn they have more in common than they thought"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.The SacramentThe Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written—tinged with the tragedy of life's regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.
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"Fourteen-year-old Hasina is forced to flee everything she knows in this gripping account of the crisis in Myanmar. For Hasina and her younger brother Araf, the constant threat of Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, is a way of life in Rakhine province-just uttering the name is enough to send chills down their spines. As Rohingyas, they know that when they hear the wop wop wop of their helicopters there is one thing to do-run, and don't stop. So when soldiers...
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Anya volume 1
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
17) In my mosque
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, illustrated endpapers ; 27 cm
Description
A picture book featuring culturally rich artwork celebrates the joys, rituals, and traditions that are practiced in mosques throughout the world, and includes a glossary and information about many historical and significant mosques.
19) The red tent
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The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman.
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