Karen Alane Robinson Collection 2011.
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Three novellas tell of Elisa, as Alidia's discovers hers sister's true potential as the bearer, friend Mara tells how she came to be in the rebel camp where Elisa is taken by her kidnappers, and guard commander and true love, Hector, discovers a secret he must keep forever.
2) Red sled
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English
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At night, a host of woodland creatures plays with a child's red sled.
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English
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It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.
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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.
5) Legend
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Legend volume 1
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English
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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day, a famous criminal, and June, a prodigy and the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cm.
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English
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"In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair became a horse; a roof became a roller rink; an empty swimming pool became a place for riding scooters and bikes. The house his father built transformed as needed into a place to play hide-and-seek, to eat bamboo shoots, and to be safe. For outside the home's walls, China was at war. Soon the house held not only Ed and his four siblings but also friends, relatives,...
10) No ordinary day
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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159 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Valli has always been afraid of the lepers living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when a chance encounter with a doctor reveals she also has leprosy, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the streets.
11) Neville
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
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1v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm. x 29 cm.
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English
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When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.