Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2007., Pre-adolescent, HarperEntertainment Call No: Young adult FIC PATERSON Edition: 1st HarperEntertain Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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2016., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FIC Bay Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
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2016., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: HISTORICAL F BAY Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: With her mama recently dead and her pa out of the picture since her birth, big sister Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister - and the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father - and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard.
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2016., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed.--2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--Provided by publisher.
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2016., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: Historical fiction FIC BAYARD Edition: 1st ed.--2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: JUV013050 Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: With her mother recently deceased and her father gone since her birth, Amelia suddenly finds herself in charge of not only her younger brother and sister, but also the family gas station. The Great Depression is in effect and things are tough. When Harley Blevins, of the rival Standard Oil, comes to buy the station, Amelia bravely refuses. The only way to save the family business is to find herself a father, real or fictional, who can hold off Blevins and keep her siblings out of foster care until she comes of age.
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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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2011., Pre-adolescent, Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: FIC WHI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
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2005, Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
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2005., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
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2013., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Young adult FIC ERSKINE Edition: 1st ed., October 2013. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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By Yolen, Janec2011., Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: FAN FIC YOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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By Yolen, Jane2012., Pre-adolescent, Puffin books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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By Yolen, Janec2011., Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: FIC YOLEN Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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By Yolen, Janec2011., Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: FIC YOLEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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©2011., Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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-- Dear America2011., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dear America.Summary Note: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
