Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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p2007, 270000, Random House Audio Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lucy and his mother are taking a trip to Italy, where Lucy's oldest friend now lives. The exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the history he's writing of his hometown and family
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[released 2008], c2008., Pre-adolescent, Playaway Digital Audio : [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC Call No: PWY FIC CUR Edition: Unabridged. Summary Note: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, Findaway World Findaway World Call No: PL FIC LEVINE Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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2018., 090000., Random House Audio; Books on Tape Call No: RB 921 WAMARIYA Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It was 1994, and in 100 days, more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and sister Claire spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety and hiding while witnessing unimaginable cruelty. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in the United States. Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, this book captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory.
![The girl who smiled beads : [a story of war and what comes after]](/LibraryG/images/~imageCT496015.JPG "The girl who smiled beads : [a story of war and what comes after]")
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p2005., Random House Audiobooks Call No: RB FIC HOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
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p1999., General, Random House Audio Call No: 917.9804 5 Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later; and attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.
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p1998., Adolescent, Random House Audio Call No: 796.52 2 095496 Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, Findaway World Findaway World Call No: PL FIC RIORDAN Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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[2013]., Pre-adolescent, Findaway World, LLC Call No: MMK FIC RIORDAN Edition: Unabridged. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
