Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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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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-- All is Nat lost[2024]., Juvenile, Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Call No: GN SCR Edition: First edition. Genre: Graphic novels Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nat's class trip is a bigger adventure than she imagined! Nat is on an overnight class trip to Philadelphia, which is her first time in a big city without her parents. And it's a big deal because Nat's mom and dad are finally giving her the independence she's been longing for. But the trip is off to a bad start--with one disaster after another--and if things keep up, Nat's on track to lose her newfound freedom for good! Can she turn things around in time, or will her first chance with liberty be her last?
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[2021]., Adolescent, Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: SUPERNATURAL F HER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
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[2014]., Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: [Fic] Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
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2001., Scholastic Call No: SER F GRE his. fic Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: My AmericaSummary Note: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
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2001., Primary, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: My AmericaSummary Note: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: SPORTS F BAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. Their families and others on the street make extra money by selling tickets to bleachers on their flat rooftops, which have a perfect view of the field. However, falling ticket sales at the park prompt the manager and park owner to decide to build a wall that will block the view. Jimmy and Lola come up with a variety of ways to prevent the wall from being built, knowing that not only will they miss the view, but their families will be impacted from the loss of income. As Jimmy becomes more and more desperate, his dubious plans create a rift between him and Lola, and he must work to repair their friendship.
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[2019], Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. Their families and others on the street make extra money by selling tickets to bleachers on their flat rooftops, which have a perfect view of the field. However, falling ticket sales at the park prompt the manager and park owner to decide to build a wall that will block the view. Jimmy and Lola come up with a variety of ways to prevent the wall from being built, knowing that not only will they miss the view, but their families will be impacted from the loss of income. As Jimmy becomes more and more desperate, his dubious plans create a rift between him and Lola, and he must work to repair their friendship.
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2005., Pre-adolescent, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Hardy boys undercover brothers Volume: #1Summary Note: Frank and Joe travel to Philadelphia where they intend to prevent an attack on an extreme sports contest called the Big Air Games.
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2009., Adolescent, Sleeping Bear Press Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela know their lives will become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but soon the teens are involved with spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, HarperCollins Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
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c2007., Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With a neglectful mother who has an abusive, live-in boyfriend, life for fifteen-year-old Samara is not fine, but when a substitute teacher walks into class one day and introduces her to poetry, she starts to view life from a different perspective.
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c2007., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Poetry Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With a neglectful mother who has an abusive, live-in boyfriend, life for fifteen-year-old Samara is not fine, but when a substitute teacher walks into class one day and introduces her to poetry, she starts to view life from a different perspective.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: SPORTS F FEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eleven-year-old Andi Carillo quickly becomes the star of her school's new co-ed tennis team, and when her talent attracts sports agents who want her to play professionally, Andi's best friend Jeff Michaels helps her thwart the agents by uncovering their underhanded schemes.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC NERI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While working as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, Cole, a Black kid from North Philly, must find the courage to stand up and be seen in a world determined to keep him out.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet--just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia's urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up--all except Ruthie, the team's first and only girl, who's determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole and Ruthie become friends--and maybe more--he starts imagining his future, maybe even at the academy. But between long workdays, arrogant polo players, and a cousin trying to pull Cole into his dangerous business, that future seems remote. Will Cole find the courage to stand and be seen in a world determined to keep him out? With striking illustrations by Jesse Joshua Watson, celebrated author G. Neri's novel weaves themes of tenacity and community into a rousing sports story inspired by Philadelphia's real-life urban cowboys and polo players"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2016], Adolescent, Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: REALISTIC F KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art"--
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[2020]., Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE F COT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she works at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process. So he says the worst thing he can think of and hangs up. But things don't end there... That night on the phone winds up being the first in a series of candid, sometimes heated, always surprising conversations that lead to a long-distance friendship and then--slowly--to something more. Across state lines and phone lines, Meg and Colby form a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But in the end, are they just too different to make it work? You Say It First is a propulsive, layered novel about how sometimes the person who has the least in common with us can be the one who changes us most"--From the publisher's web site.
