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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
5) Woods runner
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
164 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
6) Crow call
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Formats
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Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
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It wasn't Tillie's choice to leave Philadelphia. But after everything that happened junior year, her mom insisted the quiet suburb of Willow Creek was the perfect place to get a fresh start, to put the trauma and rumors behind them. Madison Frank is the perfect distraction. Beautiful, fun, and from the wealthy side of town, Madison is the kind of girl who has a pull stronger than gravity. She commands attention, even inspires obsession. And by the...
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Series
Norvelt books volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 21 cm.
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Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
10) Love, Stargirl
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
11) Plus one
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Lahey Johnson is notorious for helping her friends and classmates find love, though she has never had a boyfriend herself. She just has not had a reason to focus on her own love life-- until her detested cousin Summer's sweet sixteen give her a reason: revenge. Now Lahey is juggling six prospective suitors. All she needs to do is figure out who they guys are looking for and become that girl. Easy... until her older sister's friend Adler starts distracting...
12) The hired girl
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
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"Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
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