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2021., Scholatic Press Call No: FANTASY F SAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enough proof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's been forced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best to survive until she can earn enough money to run away. One of her chores is to monitor water levels in the loch--a task her father takes very seriously. Their family has been the guardian of the loch for generations. It's a cold, lonely task, and a few times, Alva can swear she feels someone watching her. But the more Alva investigates, the more she realizes that the truth can be more monstrous than lies, and that you can never escape your past..."--Provided by the publisher.
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By Enger, Leifc2001., Grove Press Call No: Literature FIC ENGER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1960s, a spiritual man named Jeremiah Land sets out from his Minnesota home with his young son and daughter to find his elder son, Davy, after he escapes jail on the morning of his sentencing for murder.
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[2003]., Barnes & Noble Classics Call No: Romance FIC Austen Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Barnes & Noble classics
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2010., Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks Call No: MYSTERY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
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2010, c2009., Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks Call No: Mystery FIC BRADLEY Edition: Bantam Books trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is more delighted than scared when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's decaying mansion with a postage stamp pinned to its beak, and a short time later she comes across a man in the cucumber patch just as he is taking his dying breath.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL F SPI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cammie lives with her father, the warden, in an apartment above the entrance to the county jail - so most of the mother figures she's got her eye on are inmates. There's a flamboyant shoplifter named Boo Boo, who dreams of hot fudge sundaes. And a sullen reformed arsonist named Eloda, who works as their housekeeper. Not ideal candidates maybe, but Cammie's nickname isn't Cannonball for nothing. She's a girl who decides what she wants and launches herself at it.
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[2017], Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC SPINELLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
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[2017]., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Blue Fiction SPINELLI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cammie O'Reilly is an unusual kid with an even more unusual home life. She hangs out with a flamboyant black shoplifter named Boo Boo, her housekeeper is a sullen arsonist named Eloda Pupko, and she lives above the entrance of a prison where her dad is the warden. Trying to cope with the death of her mother, who died saving Cammie's life, causes Cammie to become a depressed, angry tween, driven mad by her life in prison. The more Cammie tries to figure out who she is, the more she spirals into depression, until someone close to her makes the ultimate sacrifice to free Cammie from her past.