Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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2016., Pre-adolescent, Kathereine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Perry has always been happy living at Blue River Correctional Facility, where his mom is an inmate. So when the new district attorney moves Perry "outside," he feels like he's traded home for prison, not the other way around.
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2016., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: F CON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Perry moves to the outside world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth, he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell everyone what home truly means?
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c2012., Juvenile, American Girl Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American girls collection. Volume: 2.Summary Note: Caroline and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to pass a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard! She hopes desperately that Papa will understand her message and make an escape. But can she get to him in time? The illustrated "Looking Back" section explores how the War of 1812 affected women and children.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Call No: REALISTIC F RAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
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c2007., Juvenile, Hyperion Books for Children Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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2008, c2007., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: FIC SMI Edition: Literature Circle e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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[2017], Primary, Albert Whitman & Co. Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Children from all walks of life experience various emotions when their parent is in jail or prison, but they learn there are ways to communicate their feelings that will help improve their situation and remind them they are not alone"--OCLC.
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[2017]., Primary, Albert Whitman & Co. Call No: E Bir Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Children from all walks of life experience various emotions when their parent is in jail or prison, but they learn there are ways to communicate their feelings that will help improve their situation and remind them they are not alone"--OCLC.
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[2017], Juvenile, Albert Whitman & Company Call No: [E] Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the kinds of emotions children might feel when one of their parents is incarcerated, offering reassurance to kids with parents in jail that even though they are apart they can still be a family.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: REALISTIC F BRA Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC BRADLEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
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[2020]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Realistic Fic Bradley Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, ten-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Kathy Dawson Books Call No: FIC GOING Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole life revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha. However, when there is a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, it triggers long-buried memories in Tia and she finds that she cannot sing until she confronts her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
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[2015]., Juvenile, Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: FIC GOING Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
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c2007., Pre-adolescent, Findaway World Blackstone Audio Call No: FIC WOO Edition: Unabridged. Genre: Historical fiction Summary Note: Forrest Harper, son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London, faces a moral dilemma when he befriends Maddy, the daughter of a Jacobite rebel, who has been imprisoned at the Tower, and learns she is slated for execution.
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2016., Juvenile, Disney-Hyperion Call No: FIC DE LA CRUZ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When they begin receiving threatening messages they believe are from their villainous parents, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay know they must return to the Isle of the Lost to find out what is going on before the plot to destroy Auradon succeeds.
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2008., HarperPerennial Call No: Historical FIC Sofer Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Following the Iranian revolution, Isaac Amin is wrongly accused and arrested. As Isaac struggles to cope with the terrors of prison, his wife desperately searches for him while his children embark on their own journeys to freedom.
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p2009., Recorded Books Call No: CD 813.6 Sof Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where Muslim fanaticism is growing daily. Being rich and having had slender ties to the Shah's regime magnify his peril. In anguish over what might be happening to his family, Isaac watches the brutal mutilation and executions of prisoners around him. His wife, Farnaz, struggles to keep from slipping into despair, while his young daughter, Shirin, steals files from the home of a playmate whose father is in charge of the prison that holds her father. Far away in Brooklyn, Isaac's nonreligious son, Parviz, struggles without his family's money and falls for the pious daughter of his Hasidic landlord."--Publisher's Weekly.
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p1995., Adolescent, Recorded Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.