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2014., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Twelve-year-old orphan Arcady copes with his difficult life in a Soviet children's home by spending as much time as possible playing soccer. When Ivan Ivanych, a man who lost his wife to the Stalinist purges, takes Arcady in and offers to coach him, it transforms both of their lives in profound ways.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom---from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them---and war for their nations. Witty mixed media illustrations show Brangwain's furtive missives back to the elf kingdom, while Werfel's determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FANTASY FIC AND Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nation"--Amazon.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FANTASY F AND Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nations. Witty mixed media illustrations show Brangwain's furtive missives back to the elf kingdom, while Werfel's determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story."--Publisher.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nation"--Amazon.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Fantasy FIC ANDERSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nation"--Amazon.
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2011., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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2011., Henry Holt Call No: FIC YEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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2013., Pre-adolescent, Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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2011., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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2015., Primary, Scholastic Press Call No: 398.2 JAV Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In this version of the blind men and the elephant, based on a poem by Råumåi, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.
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-- Growing up behind the Iron Curtain2021., General, Candlewick Press Call No: 921 YEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family."-- Provided by publisher.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FIC YELCHIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov travels to take his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. But when Prince Lev's dreams of becoming a Russian hero are interrupted by a dangerous force haunting his new house, his call to courage comes sooner than he thinks.
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1891, twelve-year-old Lev Lvov travels to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to assume his duties as Prince, but must first use his special gift to rid the House of Lions of a ghost.
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c2007, Primary, H. Holt and Co Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Learn about Ann and her life with all her pets.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: ER FIC SCH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.
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2017., Primary, Scholastic Press Call No: [E] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When Don Pepe is elected the mayor of La Paz, he outlaws noise, including singing of any kind, and the once happy, noisy village falls completely silent. When a new rooster arrives in town, he couldn't care less about the laws and makes all the noise he wants. Though he finds himself in deep trouble for his offense, the town soon learns to stand up for themselves and make some noise.
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2013., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 811 .54 GERBER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the plant and insect worlds through rhyming poems and color illustrations.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, who lives very close to the air force base, becomes suspicous when a Russian man becomes a boarder in his home and who claims to have known Jake's father who disappeared during World War II.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st edtion. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, who lives very close to the air force base, becomes suspicous when a Russian man becomes a boarder in his home and who claims to have known Jake's father who disappeared during World War II.