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2017., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC Cao Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: FIC APPLEGATE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He's been gone for four years, but has come back into Jackson's life to help him. Can an imaginary friend be enough to save this family from losing everything?.
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2015., Feiwel and Friends Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent, and not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He's been gone for four years, but has come back into Jackson's life to help him. Can an imaginary friend be enough to save this family from losing everything?.
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2019., Pajama Press Call No: REALISTIC F KAD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nia, who dreams of an education and the chance at a better life, must battle the dangers of local superstition and thwart her father's plans for her future.
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2008., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
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c1993., H. Holt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
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1993., Juvenile, H. Holt Call No: Young adult FIC WOLFF Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
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1994, c1993., Scholastic Call No: REALISTIC F WOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Make Lemonade Volume: 1Summary Note: In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung disease, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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c2006., Adolescent, Harcourt Call No: Realistic FIC Going Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Click here to view Summary Note: Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
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c2006., Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2012., Bloomsbury Call No: Realistic FIC Ward Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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By Ward, Jesmync2011., Bloomsbury Call No: 813 .6 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description
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By Ward, Jesmyn2018., Large Print Press Call No: Realistic FIC Ward Edition: Large print edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Jojo, a young black Mississippi boy, is being raised by his grandparents, and is forced to become a man too soon because of his mother's meth addiction, his father's imprisonment, and his young sibling who needs him. When Jojo's dad is released from prison, his mother packs up the car with her children and drives towards the penitentiary; and the nightmarish journey makes Jojo question who the men are in his life, and what kind of man he wants to be.
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By Smith, Betty2006., Adolescent, HarperPerennial Modern Classics Call No: 813.52 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior--such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy's habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce--no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans' life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans' daily experiences are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from "junk day" on Saturdays, when the children of Francie's neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a novel of childhood, replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences--a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.
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2005, c1943., Perennial Classics Call No: Young adult FIC SMITH Edition: Current Perennial C Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
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c2001., HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Chronicles the harsh life of young Francie Nolan who lives with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
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2006, c1943., Harper Perennial Modern Classics Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Harper Perennia Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young girl comes of age in the squalor and poverty of the Brooklyn slums.
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2005., Perennial Classics Call No: Classic FIC SMI Edition: Current Perennial classics ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Perennial classic.Summary Note: Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school. This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld. The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. It had pointed leaves which grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a lot of opened green umbrellas. Some people called it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.
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2002., Pre-adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Young adult FIC WOLFF Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
