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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Formats
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world. Illustrations feature vintage photography.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
637, [639] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 16
Description
Nate the Great investigates two cases that may be connected, involving a missing valentine and a valentine that came from nowhere.
5) Dead flip
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile,...
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Appears on list
Description
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Description
As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 3
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Description
When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
11) Mary Poppins
Author
Series
Mary Poppins series volume 1
Formats
Description
Some published by PAW prints.
An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vii, 211 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ten years ago, writer Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's...
15) Spy Runner
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Formats
Description
It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the air force base? Mr. Shubin says he knew Jake's dad, who went missing in action during...
19) Ice age
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Description
Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 612 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A musical-variety program with a cast made up of Muppets and guest stars. So, go bonkers with Beaker, goofy with Gonzo and join the brave cast of "Pigs in space" for Muppet fun.
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