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By Ribay, Randy[2018], Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: SPORTS F RIB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
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By Ribay, Randy[2018]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Sports FIC RIBAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books Call No: REALISTIC F MYE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Axel loves everything about birds, especially eagles. No one worries that an eagle will fly too far and not come home--a fact Axel wishes his mother understood. Deep down, Axel knows that his mother is like an osprey--the best of all bird mothers--but it's hard to remember that when she worries and keeps secrets about important things. His dad is more like a wild turkey, coming and going as he pleases. His dad's latest disappearance is the biggest mystery of all. Despite all this, Axel loves his life--especially the time he spends with his friends observing the eagles' nest in the woods near his home. But when a tornado damages not only Axel's home but the eagles' nest, Axel's life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly his dad is back to help repair the damage, and Axel has to manage his dad's presence and his beloved birds' absence. Plus, his mom seems to be keeping even more secrets. But Axel knows another important fact: an eagle's instincts let it soar. Axel must trust his own instincts to help heal his family and the nest he loves"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., General, Dutton Children's Books Call No: Young Adult Fiction MYE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
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-- Boy 21.2013., Adolescent, Little, Brown Call No: Sports Fic Quick Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
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2009., Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
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2016., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
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[2016], Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC Tho Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FANTASY F SPI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible--as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything. Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash). And he certainly didn't count on Becca showing up to boss him around! Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything"--From the publisher's web site.
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1998, Juvenile, Knopf Call No: Fic$221 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his black friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.
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c2013., Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: PB F BLA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: 813.54 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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2016., Scholastic Press Call No: FIC SONNENBLICK Edition: 1st ed. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she and her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
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By Burg, Ann E.2020., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F BUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam, that was built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen, collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Told in the voices of six children and many others, this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam and the unnatural disaster which it caused. Told in blank verse.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Seeds of America Volume: bk 2Summary Note: Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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By Doeden, Matt[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint Call No: Adventure FIC DOEDEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: You choose books.Summary Note: You Choose adventure that takes place at the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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c1991., Juvenile, Philomel Books Call No: Hist. Fiction Gold KEEHN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
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c2007., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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c2007., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.