Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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By Hornby, Nick1999, c1998., Riverhead Books Call No: Young adult FIC HORNBY Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Will, a thirty-six-year-old London bachelor, undergoes a change in his outlook about marriage and children when he lies to join a single parents group in order to meet women, and becomes friends with a needy twelve-year-old named Marcus.
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c2006., Random House Call No: 823 .92 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
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2002., Juvenile, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: Rev. format ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: The dark is rising sequenceSummary Note: On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
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2004., Dover Publications Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: Dover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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c2006., William Morrow Call No: MYSTERY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Young Snyde, whose father was dismissed from St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school, returns masquerading as a teacher planning revenge.
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By Green, Sally2014., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Fantasy FIC GRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
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[2004]., Signet Classic Call No: Classic FIC ALC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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2006., Doubleday Call No: Mystery Fic Robotham Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S.A. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: London Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz, pulled out of the Thames River with amnesia and a bullet wound in his leg, embarks on an investigation to recover his lost memory and find out what his shooting had to do with a three-year-old kidnapping case in which the victim is believed to be dead and perpetrator in jail.
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2013., Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seth remembers dying. But then he finds himself in a deserted English town that feels oddly familiar. He and two new friends try to understand what's happened to them.
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2013., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Young adult FIC NESS Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A boy named Seth drowns, but then wakes up alone in his hometown, and doesn't know if he is alive or dead.
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2013., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: DYSTOPIA Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A boy named Seth drowns, but then wakes up alone in his hometown, and doesn't know if he is alive or dead.
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2010., Adolescent, Henry Holt Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist.".
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2003., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young man at a prestigious, literary New England preparatory school who has spent his entire time there hiding his real self in order to fit in finds his facade and his world falling apart during his senior year.
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2017., Vintage Call No: Historical fiction FIC DICKENS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Vintage classics (London, England)Summary Note: In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
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2006., Pocket Books Call No: 813 .4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Series Title: Enriched classic
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-- Prince & the pauper[2007]., Prestwick House, Inc Call No: 813 .4 Edition: This Prestwick Hous Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prestwick House literary touchstone classics.Summary Note: Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.
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2010, Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Aladdin pbk. ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Killer mystery trilogy Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The Hardy Boys are determined to find out more about the dangerous secret society at Firth Academy, a private boarding school in New England, where the suspects include the fraternity brothers of Gamma Theta Theta as well as some of the faculty who seem to be interested in concealing Firth from the public eye.
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2023., Scribner Call No: FANTASY F GAR Edition: First Scribner hardcoer edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading comic books, collecting birds' eggs, and playing with marbles. When one day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears on a horse and cart, offering a cure-all medicine, a mysterious friendship develops and the young boy is introduced to a world beyond his wildest imagination.
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By Rosoff, Meg2008, c2007., Viking Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1960s Britain, a young boarding school student breaks rules to maintain a friendship with a reclusive teen who lives in a hut by the sea, and after his friend falls ill, learns a dark secret that changes both of their lives.