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[2002], c1983., Pre-adolescent, Random House Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This fast-paced racing story follows Black Minx's journey through training and preliminary races to the opening gate at Churchill Downs for America's most famous race, the Kentucky Derby.
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[2019]., Sourcebooks Landmark Call No: Historical Fic Richardson Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cussy Mary Carter serves the Troublesome Creek area as a traveling librarian for Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project. Cussy's blue skin sets her apart from the other folks in the region, and not everyone is a fan of Cussy's family or the program she works for--a reality that forces her to face long-held prejudices as she battles to bring books to the people in the Appalachian community.
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1988., Orchard Call No: Blue Fiction LYON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
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c2010., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
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Ã2017., Adolescent, HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Young Adult FIC STE Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She'd rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. But when Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie's filled with a nagging sadness as she realizes that she is also in love with Woods--and maybe with Janie Lee, too. Always considered "one of the guys," Billie doesn't want anyone slapping a label on her sexuality before she can understand it herself. So she keeps her conflicting feelings to herself, for fear of ruining the group dynamic. Except it's not just about keeping the peace, it's about understanding love on her terms--this thing that has always been defined as a boy and a girl falling in love and living happily ever after. For Billie--a box-defying dynamo--it's not that simple"--Amazon.com.
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2002, c2001., Primary, Scholastic Call No: F WYE Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: My AmericaSummary Note: A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
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c2007, Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
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By Hart, Alisonc2007., Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Call No: FIC HART Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
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By Hart, Alisonc2007., Peachtree Call No: FIC HART Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Gabriel, a former slave, leaves behind his life as a professional jockey and joins his father in the Fifth U.S. Colored Cavalry at Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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[2022]., Juvenile, Random House Children's Books Call No: GN ORM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: FIC TYRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Upon her mother's death, Wavie Conley, eleven, must go live with a scheming aunt in the Kentucky town her mother left behind.
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2008., Pre-adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At summer camp Jane feels like an outsider among the cliquish rich girls who board their horses at Sunny Acres farm, and when the horse she has been riding is sold to another camper, she feels even worse until her teacher asks her to help train a beautiful but skittish new horse, and the experience brings out the best in her.
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1998., Penguin Books Call No: Young adult FIC RUBIO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
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2014., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Horror FIC Vaught Genre: Horror Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The intertwining stories of four teenagers who find themselves haunted beyond imagining in the depths of a Kentucky mental institution.
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-- Story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave2004., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Viking Children's Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Call No: PB F BYA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Puffin books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.
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c2002., Juvenile, Viking Call No: FIC BYA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amen McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Blue Fiction KEPLINGER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.