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In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who is paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights. Includes timeline and historical photographs.
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Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
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226 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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216 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
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During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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312 pages ; 22 cm
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
6) Sky color
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Creatrilogy volume 3
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"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
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Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation"--Provided by publisher.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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424 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"As Jin Ling tries to save her sister Mei Yee from the Brotherhood of the Red Dragon in Hak Nam Walled City, one boy, Dai, can reunite them and save their lives--but only if he's willing to risk his own"--
Mei Yee has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. Jin lives in the street gangs, passing as a boy to stay safe while searching for her sister. Dai traffics drugs...
9) Libra
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1991.
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456 pages ; 20 cm.
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On November 22, 1963, in the streets of Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald's path intersected with the President John F. Kennedy's and the world witnessed the terrifying explosion of America's dreams. In Libra Don DeLillo applies his masterful imagination to Kennedy's assassination and crestes eerily convincing speculation about one of America's most compelling mysteries.
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Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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"A child dreams of a life without borders after he and and his parents are forced to leave their home during the Mexican Repatriation"--Provided by publisher.
12) Change up
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 3
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
154 pages, 22 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.
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Young Derek's dream of sailing to a championship under his father's coaching is complicated by unexpected challenges.
13) Bag of bones
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Mike Noonan, a best selling author, is haunted by dreams about the death of his wife. Although it has been over four years since his wife's tragic death, Mike is unable to shake the grief. In an attempt to settle himself, Mike returns to his summer home. However, something dark is brewing underneath the town's surface, and Mike is about to discover it.
15) A northern light
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
16) The pearl
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--P. [4] of cover.
17) Ice island
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Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditerod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaska's remote Santa Ysabel Island.
19) The first rule
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 13
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Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xix, 496 pages ; 22 cm
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In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even...
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