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13701) Jewel of the East
Author
Series
Treasure chest (Ann Hood) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Felix gets a crush on his friend Lily, who was adopted from China as a baby, he decides to try to take her back in time to learn more about China. After being caught by Maisie, the twins find themselves transported to a small village on the Yangtze River, leaving Lily behind in the present. In China, the twins meet Pearl Buck in the days just before the Boxer Rebellion. With bandits chasing them, they flee to safety in Shanghai. The twins return...
13702) Everything must go
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Falling for a young man who has accepted a job at a hippie Quaker school, Flora leaves her elite prep school to join him, but must make the most of the situation when he fails to show up, in a story told through letters, emails, and news stories.
13703) Bernard Pepperlin
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The drowsy Dormouse named Bernard Pepperlin of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland has been trapped in time subjected to an endless tea party with the Mad Hatter and others. One day a girl in a blue dress crashes the Hatter's tea party, the Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. When the Hatter shoves him into a porcelain teapot painted with the New York City's skyline, he's thrilled to be transported to a magnificent new world where clocks...
13704) The Button Box
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
With the help of a magic button, Jewish Ava and Muslim Nadeem go back in time to ancient Morocco to help Prince Abdur Rahman escape to Spain and fulfill his destiny as the ruler of a country in which Jews and Muslims work together to make medieval Spain a center of science, mathematics, music, and poetry.
13705) Los túneles de huesos
Author
Series
Crónicas de Cassidy Blake volume II
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Los problemas parecen no abandonar a Cassidy Blake. Ahora, Cass junto a Jacob (su mejor amigo, que es un fantasma) están en París, donde los padres de Cassidy se encuentran filmando un nuevo episodio de su programa sobre las ciudades más embrujadas del mundo. Comer croissants y visitar la Torre Eiffel es muy divertido, pero hay peligros verdaderamente escalofriantes al acecho debajo de París... en las famosas Catacumbas. Cuando Cass, por accidente,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless...
13707) Where the sky lives
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling with grief over her uncle's death, twelve-year-old amateur astronomer Tuesday Beals makes a discovery that could save her favorite astronomy spots in Zion National Park from the threat of a new housing development.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
151 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Dawn, the newest member of the Baby-sitters Club, gets more than she bargained for when her first job turns into a disaster and she has problems with Kristy.
"Dawn es el miembro más reciente del Club de las Baby-Sitters, y aunque todavía se está adaptando a la vida en Stoneybrook después de mudarse desde la soleada California, está ansiosa por llevar a cabo su primer gran trabajo de baby-sitter. Pero cuidar a los tres niños Barrett es demasia-do...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation -- in Little Rock and throughout the South -- and an...
13711) Los patines de Karen
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
125 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Va a ser un fin de semana genial! Karen tiene patines nuevos y es muy buena patinando. Tiene ganas de intentar trucos nuevos, pero, ¡ay, no! Se cae y tienen que llevarla al hospital, ¡con una muñeca fracturada! Karen está decidida a que todos sus conocidos -y también algún famoso- le firme el yeso. No va a ser fácil, pero ella no cejará hasta lograrlo." -- provided by publisher.
13712) Truest
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Silas Hart has seriously shaken up Westlin Beck's small-town life. Brand-new to town, Silas is different from the guys in Green Lake. He's curious, poetic, philosophical, maddening -- and really, really cute. But Silas has a sister and she has a secret. West has a boyfriend. And life in Green Lake is about to change forever.
13713) Anne of Green Gables
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--
13714) And she was
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
13715) The chaos of now
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Recruited to join a team in a prestigious hacking competition, Eli soon discovers that his teammates' real purpose is seeking revenge for the bullying that led to their former member's suicide.
Jordan committed suicide after being tirelessly bullied; now the school has access to students' online activities and students have less privacy than ever. Eli just wants to graduate, get away from this town and his father, and get himself a prestigious coding...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lam, her brothers, and other ethnic Chinese flee Vietnam in 1979, embarking on a long and perilous journey toward a refugee camp, where Lam finds new hope and happiness. Includes historical notes, glossary, and pronunciation guide.
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