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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate saeances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
363) Give me a sign
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Night fairies volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Physical Desc
65 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
Nia's magic is missing --- and now none of the forest creatures know when to be asleep, and when to be awake! Rachel and Kirsty have to do something!
365) The river challenge
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 5
Publisher
Bear Grylls
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Jack is up for anything... as long as he doesn't have to get wet. No one knows about his fear of water, and he's determined to keep it a secret. But then he slips into a shallow stream and is pulled out of a deep, fast-flowing river gorge by Bear Grylls. They work together to build a bamboo raft, navigate the whitewater rapids and steer clear of hidden dangers... Can Jack rise to the challenge of being thrown in at the deep end? Will he sink or swim?...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
419 p. ;
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Ziggy and his friends can’t wait for space camp, where they’ll get to learn about weightlessness and how astronauts eat—and use the bathroom—in space! But Ziggy has another goal: he wants to meet some aliens. Purple, three-headed Martians, preferably, just like in his Mega Mighty Martian Blaster game. Once he gets to camp, Ziggy learns that real-life space travel is even more exciting than what he imagined. But when a mysterious, shiny stone...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nashville, Tennessee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Manhattan art dealer Sera James' discovery of a portrait of a holocaust victim leads her to search for the story of the painting's subject, an aristocratic Austrian violinist whose efforts to smuggle Jews out of Vienna put her in Auschwitz.
369) The sea challenge
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 4
Publisher
Bear Grylls Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Chloe is enjoying activity camp and all the outdoor fun - what's not to like? But she can't understand why everyone goes on and on about "leaving things the way you found them". After all, what's the big deal about a bit of litter in the middle of the woods? The world is big enough for a bit of rubbish not to matter. But when she's given a mysterious compass with a fifth direction she's transported to a tropical island beach and has to brave the extreme...
370) Life after Manzanar
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start...
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 7
Publisher
Bear Grylls Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Charlie loves a challenge. He's addicted to video games and an expert at figuring out how to get to the next level. But sometimes the real world can seem a bit dull. Then he finds himself on the slopes of an active volcano, with red-hot lava heading his way! There's no time to be bored with Bear as his guide out of danger.
372) The Arctic challenge
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 11
Publisher
Bear Grylls
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Joe gets on well with everyone, enjoys camp and all the activities and is always up for a challenge. But he has a big problem with remembering directions and following instructions. When he gets a mysterious compass from a friend, he sets off on an adventure with Bear Grylls in the freezing cold Arctic tundra, where knowing where you're going is crucial to survival.
Author
Series
Doom's day camp volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Doom and his oddball friends--each with their own distinct power--leave the safety of their camp for a daring mission to rescue their parents"--
Author
Publisher
Press Box Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Tells the story of Japanese Americans who lived in Lompoc before World War II... he reveals the successful efforts of local and state officials in pushing for the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. One of the greatest tragedies of this forced removal was the destruction of the Japanese American community of Lompoc..."--P. 7.
Author
Series
Waffles and Pancake volume 4
Publisher
Ink / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
57 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm.
Description
"Waffles and his sister Pancake go to Space Cat Camp." --
Author
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Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage
Celebrating Women's History
Remembering Japanese internment
Celebrating Women's History
Remembering Japanese internment
Formats
Description
"This is the story of Kiyo Sato and her family and their experience in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps during WWII."--
Author
Series
Secrets of Camp Whatever volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press, an Oni Press publication
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"When twelve-year-old Willow went to her weird new town's even weirder summer camp, she didn't expect to get caught up in an ancient mystery involving forest-dwelling vampires, living garden gnomes, and other completely bonkers creatures most people wouldnever believe exist. Now she's not only involved, she's marked--too close to the heart of an ages-old quest for power and control than she should be"--
Author
Series
Secrets of Camp Whatever volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Eleven-year-old Willow doesn't want to go to her dad's weird old summer camp any more than she wants her family to move to the weird old town where that camp is located. But her family--and fate itself-- seem to have plans of their own. Soon Willow finds herself neck-deep in a confounding mystery involving stolen snacks, suspected vampires, and missing campers, all shrouded in the sinister fog that hides a generation of secrets at Camp... whatever...
Author
Series
Batpig volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
It's official: Batpig is a super-swine hero! But Batpig's alter ego, Gary Yorkshire? He still does ordinary things like going to school and taking tests. So what happens when Gary gets a little help on his biology test from a magical creature named Sharkraham Lincoln (half shark, half sixteenth president) and sets off a cheating scandal? Or when he goes off to summer camp to relax...and has to save the day without his Batpig uniform? It's not easy...
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