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2024., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: Barely surviving in the barren wasteland that was once California, orphans Leandro Rivera, thirteen, and his sister, Gabi, nine, plot to leave the harsh society of the Pocatelans, who use threats and harsh punishments to keep Cascabeles like them subjugated. When they hatch a plan to leave, Leandro takes the fall for Gabi when she steals a strawberry and gets caught. Instead of banishment, Leandro's consciousness is placed into a hummingbird drone and he's given the task to find a missing person. But when Leandro ventures out beyond the city, what he discovers could change his and Gabi's lives forever.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: Dee, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat heading towards France on D-Day, terrified and feeling the weight of the entire world on his shoulders--but he is not alone. Behind enemy lines is Samira, a spy helping to sabotage the German defenders in Normandy, while paratrooper James is leaping from his plane to conduct a midnight raid. Lastly, in the thick of the fighting, is Henry, a medic looking to save lives.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: On the banks of Upper Kwanta, eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has long heard the call of the water, and he truly feels most at home swimming in the river. But Kofi's life is turned upside down when his brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest at a festival between the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta, and his brother accidentally kills his opponent, the nephew of the King of Lower Kwanta. The king soon gets his revenge, and Kofi finds himself embarking on a perilous journey across land and sea when slave traders arrive.
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-- Elf dog and owl head2023., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: During a global pandemic, a young boy named Clay is facing a long summer of isolation, fighting with his sisters to use the computer, and video calling his friends. Taking to the woods behind his home, Clay begins exploring and meets Elphinore, an elegant dog with a collar who can speak. Elphinore becomes Clay's guide and they explore parts of the forest he never knew existed. Soon, Clay's sisters join him and they meet other creatures, including Amos, a boy with an Owl's head. Their adventures intensify as they come to the know the secrets of elfin forest and its creatures.
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2020., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: In 1945, young Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for Japan when World War II comes to his home island of Okinawa--he is given a grenade and told not to come back without killing an American. Young Marine Ray has just landed on Okinawa, fighting for the Americans. Ray and Hideki fight their way across ambushes and traps to meet face to face with one another, and their choices will decide their destinies.
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By Dee, Barbara2023., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Haven channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into a fight against the factory suspected of polluting the river running through her town.
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By Keller, Tae2022., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: JUV039230 Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: Seventh grader Mallory Moss knows the golden rule of middle school: do what you can to fit in. New girl Jennifer Chan, who just moved in across the street, doesn't seem to abide by this rule or any other unspoken rules, especially since she openly talks about believing in aliens. After they start the new year, Jennifer gets bullied by Mallory's friends and Mallory does nothing to stop it. Then Jennifer runs away, and Mallory embarks on a desperate search to find her, combing through Jennifer's journals for clues to her whereabouts and reckoning with her own past mistakes.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: Cousins Otto and Sheed Alston aren't quite ready to return to school after summer break. Although they might wish for a little more time to be free of the daily grind of the classroom, they didn't mean to actually freeze time. Now they'll have to figure out how to put things back to normal before it's too late.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: JUV037000 Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: As the Mangkon royal navy Master Mapmaker's apprentice, twelve-year-old Sai keeps her lowly born status a secret. If anyone found out her father is a conman from the Fens, she'd lose her position. Though, that's likely to happen anyway, as her thirteenth birthday is approaching and that's when all high-born receive a gold bracelet denoting their lineage. She cheats destiny once again when her master, Paiyoon invites her on a sanctioned trip to explore a southern continent. But the voyage comes with its own set of dangers, including rumored dragons, and Sai will have to decide what price she is willing to pay for a better future.
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By Ursu, Anne2020., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: Twins Iris and Lark have been inseparable from their first moments in the world together--Iris the grounded, rational, capable one, Lark the dreamy, intelligent, and creative one. When fifth grade rolls around, however, it is decided the twins should be split up to separate classes--and something splits inside both. Lark withdraws into herself and Iris loses her self-confidence. At the same time, things mysteriously begin vanishing around the city, and Iris takes it upon herself to keep Lark safe.
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2020., Primary, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: After his father leaves on a trip to secure a new birth certificate for him, eleven-year-old Maximiliano Córdoba meets a refugee named Isadora from the war-torn country of Abismo and learns that the stories his grandfather has been telling him are true: his family are part of a secret society of guardians who lead refugees to safety through an abandoned stone tower named La Reina Gigante. Abandoning his dreams of becoming a soccer star, Max sets out on a journey to help Isadora reach safety and hopefully learn the truth behind the disappearance of his mother.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: Sunny is the happiest person on the elite middle school track team, the Defenders. But Sunny's mom died giving birth to him and it seems like his dad blames him since he ignores Sunny. The only thing Sunny can do right in his dad's eyes is to win first place ribbons in running the mile, just like his mother. Sunny hates running and loves to dance; when he discovers a track event that allows him to incorporate elements of dance that he loves, he learns to let go of everything that's eating him up inside and follow his passion.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader.Summary Note: Every day passes by just like every other day in Fawn Creek, Louisiana--at least, that's how best friends-since-forever Dorothy Doucet and Greyson Broussard feel. The two girls consider themselves outside the typical seventh-grade groups--especially the self-proclaimed God Squad, and the Fawn Creek Royalty, and the Jocks--and that suits them just fine, since they have each other. Dorothy and Greyson have no reason to believe this year will be any different, until some new kid from Somewhere Else comes to town.
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By Yang, Kelly2020., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: As she heads into sixth grade, Mia Tang thinks it's going to be the best year ever. She and her parents now own the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and Mia is finally getting acknowledged for her writing. But when school starts, Mia's new teacher doesn't think her writing is all that great and her whole class finds out that she lives and works in a motel. In addition, the motel is struggling and a new immigration law is on the ballot in the upcoming elections and if it passes, it will threaten everyone in Mia's life. As she deals with school trouble and difficult questions of immigration and racism, Mia will have to rely on all her determination and her friends in order to make it through.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print middle reader.Summary Note: A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
