Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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-- Forty-seven2005, Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown Edition: 1st ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom
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1991, c1988., Juvenile, Troll Associates Call No: FIC BEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee."
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[2023]., Adolescent, Thomas Nelson Call No: FANTASY F GEO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Susana's eighteenth birthday triggers a generational curse, prompting her to sleepwalk into the Okefenokee Swamp behind her grandparent's house, she realizes the roots of her family tree run deeper than she believed.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Kokila Call No: REALISTIC F CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
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c2012., Primary, Harcourt Children's Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1939, artist Georgia O'Keeffe creates nearly twenty paintings as she tours the Hawaiian islands, but refuses to paint pictures of pineapples the way her sponsors tell her to.
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2012., Primary, Harcourt Children's Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1939, artist Georgia O'Keeffe creates nearly twenty paintings as she tours the Hawaiian islands, but refuses to paint pictures of pineapples the way her sponsors tell her to.
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[2016], Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: ROMANCE F BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. But Jo couldn't possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad. Even if she's starting to fall for the girl. Even if there's a chance Mary Carlson might be interested in her, too. Right?
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2021., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure.
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[2004]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic, Inc. Call No: FICTION FIC KIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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c2004., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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2022., Adolescent, LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HISTORICAL F MCW Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
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By Khan, HenaÃ2019., Pre-adolescent, Salaam Reads Call No: FIC Young adult KHAN Edition: 1st Salaam Reads pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
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By Khan, Hena[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Salaam Reads Call No: Blue Fiction KHAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F SNY Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels...lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago, when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah's been adrift and alone. Then she meets Jasper, a girl unlike anyone she has ever known. There's something mysterious about Jasper, almost magical. And Jasper, Leah discovers, is also lost. Together, the two girls carve out a place for themselves, a hideaway in the overgrown spaces of Atlanta, away from their parents and their hardships, somewhere only they can find. But as the days of this magical June start to draw to a close and the darker realities of their lives intrude once more, Leah and Jasper have to decide how real their friendship is, and whether it can be enough to save them both"--Jacket flap.
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[2019], Juvenile, Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels...lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago, when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah's been adrift and alone. Then she meets Jasper, a girl unlike anyone she has ever known. There's something mysterious about Jasper, almost magical. And Jasper, Leah discovers, is also lost. Together, the two girls carve out a place for themselves, a hideaway in the overgrown spaces of Atlanta, away from their parents and their hardships, somewhere only they can find. But as the days of this magical June start to draw to a close and the darker realities of their lives intrude once more, Leah and Jasper have to decide how real their friendship is, and whether it can be enough to save them both"--Jacket flap.
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2006., Adolescent, HarperTrophy Call No: Realistic Fic Anderson Edition: First Harper Trophy edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
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[2018], Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: ROMANCE F ALL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From age thirteen to nineteen, Spencer experiences an ever-changing relationship with Hope, the girl next door who helps him cope with his Tourette syndrome but likes his Neanderthal brother, Dean.
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2022., Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: REALISTIC F HAM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
