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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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2023., 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.Summary Note: Dominican American girl Ani loves swimming in the sea and in the pool. Her father secretly lets her join the swim team but they don't tell Ani's mother because her brother died in the water of a hurricane years ago and she would be upset. However, when Ani's joints swell up, she's forced to visit the doctor and tell what she's been doing. Ani is diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but fortunately her doctor believes that swimming and medication will help her manage it. Ani grieves for who she was, but bravely faces the future and who she is becoming.
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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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2022., 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.Summary Note: In an alternate America shaped more by the ancestral magic and lore of Indigenous and immigrant groups rather than the ideas of Europeans, Elatsoe--whose friends call her Ellie--has the power to raise dead animal spirits, a power she mostly uses to bring back Kirby, her ghost dog. When her cousin dies in what seems a car accident, his ghost returns to tell Ellie he was actually murdered. Ellie must use her power to track down the killer.
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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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2023., 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.Summary Note: After they flee the plantation where they were enslaved, twelve-year-old Homer and his sister Ada find a home with the people of Freewater, a group of escaped slaves who secretly live in the Great Dismal Swamp. There he finds a new community of friends who support one another to ensure they remain free. When their community is threatened, Homer hatches a plan to rescue his enslaved mother and ensure the safety of Freewater residents.
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2023., Adolescent, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Co. Call No: MYSTERY FIC SMI Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print young adult.Summary Note: As Muskogee sophomore Hughie Wolfe volunteers at a haunted house fundraiser, he weighs speaking out against a bigoted legend and investigates strange things that have been occurring at the crossroads near Harvest House at night.
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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 Young, Brian2023., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: JUV011040 Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press youth large print.Summary Note: Edward and Nathan, two Navajo stepbrothers, work with a young water monster named Dew to confront their past and save the world from a monstrous, enormous Enemy that is stealing water from all of the Navajo Nation.
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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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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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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.Summary Note: When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
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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.
