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Books @ Noon April 2021 picks
Children & Junior: Treasure Summer Reading 2022
Piratical Reads for Teens
Children & Junior: Treasure Summer Reading 2022
Piratical Reads for Teens
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on 23 May 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 and 1882 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
4) Allies
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It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
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Starry River of the Sky volume 1
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Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
6) Resistance
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In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 31
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"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time to meet famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius!"--
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was a fiercely talented and enigmatic English novelist, celebrated for her timeless masterpiece "Wuthering Heights." Born in the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, she was the reclusive sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, yet her literary legacy stands in a league of its own.
Despite her short life, Emily Brontë's genius shone brightly through her hauntingly beautiful prose and her exploration of intense emotions and...
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Blackthorn key volume 1
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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
12) Chain of thorns
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Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 3
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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2023.
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Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
13) Chain of iron
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Cordelia Carstairs' romantic dreams must be put on hold when a serial killer begins targeting the Shadowhunters of London, sending the Merry Thieves on the trail of a knife-wielding killer.
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Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
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"In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--
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A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers , show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. With curriculum connections...
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Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
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[2018]
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"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
17) The bronze bow
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Daniel swears vengeance against the Romans for killing his father and mother but is finally won over to the gentle teachings of Jesus.
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Unicorn Rescue Society volume 4
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[2019]
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"Uchenna and Elliot travel with Professor Fauna to the Texas-Mexico border to save the region's animals and help bring a divided community back together with the help of locals"--
19) A dastardly plot
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In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
20) We are not free
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2022 Youth Media Awards
2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
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2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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