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2022., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Historical Fic Charles Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1984 New Jersey, fifteen-year-old Beatriz Mendez dreams of becoming a professional dancer like her idol Debbie Allen. Then her gang-leader brother is murdered and the fierce Beatriz is forced to step into her brother's shoes to run the gang at a time when cocaine was the dominant force running the neighborhood. Her dreams of dancing are all but gone, and her mother, grieving over the loss of her son, has turned into a shell of her former self. Then a classmate asks Beatriz to join him in a dance competition and her passion for dance once again sneaks in.
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2012., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Historical FIC Sharenow Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:5 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never been in a synagogue or practiced religion, but to everyone around him he is a Jew. Longing to prove his worth, he starts taking boxing lessons from champion boxer and German national hero Max Schmeling. As a skilled cartoonist, he's never before had an interest in boxing, but as Max's apprentice, Karl finds both his boxing skills and art flourishing. When Nazi violence against the Jews heightens, he must balance his dream of becoming a great boxer with his obligation to protect his family.
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c2011., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Sepetys Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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-- Blood ninja twoBy Lake, Nickc2010., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster BFYR Call No: Horror FIC Lake Book 2 Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Horror Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro, a vampire like all ninja warriors, tries to protect his mother and defeat the power-hungry Lord Oda, who he believed was dead.
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2009., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Adventure FIC Moran Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties.
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2010., Adolescent, David Fickling Books Call No: Historical FIC Dowd Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Upon discovering the body of a murdered girl, Fergus tries to make sense of the "bog child's" death while managing personal problems in his own life.
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-- 1619 Project2021., Juvenile, Kokila Call No: LS Han Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Frustrated with a class assignment asking students to trace their roots to their ancestral homes, a young black girl explains to her family that she couldn't complete the assignment because she could only trace her family back three generations in the United States. Her grandmother gathers her and other family members around to tell them about their ancestral home on the West African plains, before slavery, and where their people thrived. She also explains how those who were captured for slavery, found ways to survive and carry on through the generations in spite of their terrible hardships and pain.
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Ã2012., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Historical FIC Wein Edition: First Hyperion paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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By Gould, Sashac2011., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Mystery FIC Gould Book 1 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Laura della Scala's older sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her sister.
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2015., Juvenile, Pajama Press Call No: Historical FIC Skrypuch Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Young lovers Ali and Zeynep are separated when war breaks out in Anatolia in 1914. Ali flees to Canada, where he is interned as an enemy alien, while Zeynep struggles to find a way to escape Turkey and reunite with Ali.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Random House Call No: Historical FIC Friesner Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage.
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2003., Penguin Books Call No: Mystery FIC Fforde Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fantasy novel in which time and reality zigzag back and forth and Thursday Next, a female investigator, is determined to find the mad killer of characters in literary works and finally snatch Jane Eyre from death.
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By Follett, Ken2011., New American Library Call No: Historical Fic Follett Book 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: The century trilogy Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: Depicts five international families whose lives are intertwined during the period of twentieth-century history from World War I and the Russian Revolution to the struggle for women's rights.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Sepetys Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1957, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson arrives in Madrid to connect with his mother's homeland through his photography. When he meets a young woman named Ana, he sees the harsh impact of the Spanish Civil War that still affects her family. Daniel finds himself facing difficult decisions as dangerous secrets from the past emerge, revealing a dark side of Spain hidden from tourists.
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c2012., Adolescent, Marshall Cavendish Call No: Realistic FIC Farish Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a map of Sudan.
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c2010., Adolescent, WestSide Books Call No: Realistic Fic Stanley Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Upon his parents' 1981 divorce, Cal Burton goes from being a popular, comfortable Spokane basketball all-star to a resident of a Ute Indian reservation in Utah, where apathy, poor living conditions, racism, and bitterness over a decades-old family tragedy change his life.
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2012., Anchor Books Call No: Adventure FIC Geda Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novelization of the true story of Enaiatollah Akbari, who fled with his mother at the age of ten when the Taliban took over his small village. Left alone in Pakistan to fend for himself, Akbari embarks on a five-year journey that takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he finally finds political asylum in Italy.
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c2007., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Historical FIC Sheth Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
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Ã2013., Vintage Books Call No: Historical FIC Baker Edition: First Vintage trade edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sarah, the orphaned housemaid at Longbourn, the household of Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," is given her own story concurrent with the events of Austen's novel. Romance, heartbreak, and intrigue are no less present in the world of the servants, especially when a mysterious and handsome new footman arrives to work at the house.
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2014., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Horror FIC Ruiz Zafon Edition: First U.S. edition. Genre: Horror Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai and an unusual girl named Marina witness an unsettling ceremony in a cemetery in Barcelona, which prompts them to investigate the origins of the ritual and leads them into a dark and mysterious world under the city.
