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Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.
5) Basket moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.
6) Gingersnap
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
7) Peacemaker
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English
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Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
Books That Take Place in Another Time
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Books That Take Place in Another Time
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Description
"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
Author
Series
Otis Dooda volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Otis Dooda is starting out in a new school since his move to New York City. He would love to make a good impression, but strange thinigs begin to happen to him.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
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English
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Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.
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English
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Mary Jemison has been captured by a Shawnee war party! How will she survive? When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she's sure they'll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members...
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