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The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel
by E. Lockhart.
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345 p. ; 21 cm.
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The dragons of Babel
Michael Swanwick.
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318 p. ; 25 cm.
Enslaved by a war-dragon of Babel, young Will evacuates to the Tower of Babel where he meets the confidence trickster,Nat Whilk, and becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city. As he rises from an underling to a politician, Will falls in love with a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.--From publisher description.
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Elijah of Buxton [sound recording]
Christopher Paul Curtis.
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8 sound discs (ca. 68 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Elijah of Buxton [playaway]
Christopher Paul Curtis.
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1 sound media player (ca. 9 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson.
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251 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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Finding Nouf
Zoë Ferraris.
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305 p. ; 22 cm.
When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened.
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Garmann's summer
Stian Hole ; [translation by Don Bartlett].
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
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The good thief : a novel
by Hannah Tinti.
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327 p. ; 22 cm.
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The graveyard book
Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean.
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312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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The house in the night
written by Susan Marie Swanson and illustrated by Beth Krommes.
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.
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How I learned geography
Uri Shulevitz.
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1 v. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
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Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta.
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419 p. ; 19 cm.
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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