Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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c2009., Pre-adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Harry "Dit" Sims and his newest friend Emma Walker work together to come up with a plan that could save the town barber, an African-American, who is on put on trial and faces a horrible end.
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c2009., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.
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By Nelson, R. Ac2007., Razorbill Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters.
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By Klise, Kate2005., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC KLISE Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
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By Klise, Katec2005., Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
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[2014?]., Flux Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "After her best friend Holly jumps off a railroad bridge and vanishes, fifteen-year-old Jane becomes convinced that the desperate, devouring mud creature who arises from the river is Holly, trapped and unaware she is dead"--
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Juvenile Call No: F Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters, who are about to learn what it's like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for t.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Historical Fiction WILLIAMS-GARCIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--Publisher's web site.
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Ã2015., Pre-adolescent, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA Wil Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible.
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[2015], Pre-adolescent, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--Publisher's web site.
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[2015], Juvenile, Amistad Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Three feisty sisters--Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern Gaither--help their eighty-two-year-old grandmother, Ma Charles, make peace with her half-sister, Miss Trotter, while visiting Ma Charles in Alabama during the summer of 1969.
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[2015]., Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Magic runs in Hoodoo's family, yet he's never been able to cast a spell. But when a dangerous man threatens his family, Hoodoo finds that magic just might be within his reach.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
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2015, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Magic runs in Hoodoo's family, yet he's never been able to cast a spell. But when a dangerous man threatens his family, Hoodoo finds that magic just might be within his reach.
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Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Emily and her winged horse, Pegasus, face an ancient challenge of Olympic proportions in this fourth book of an exciting series. A deadly plague has struck Olympus. While the Olympians fade one by one, Emily's heart breaks as she watches, particularl
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c2009., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC DAVIS Genre: Historical fiction Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
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c2008., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.