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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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First edition.
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"Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride."--Publisher's description.
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First edition.
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Unabridged.
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An old hound that's been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
4) Sounder
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SMP-J ARM
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Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP-J ARM
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A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
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J AVI
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J AVI
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J AVI
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Edition
Unabridged.
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On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J AVI
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In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
6) Doll bones
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J BLA
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First edition.
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J BLA
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Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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Shakespeare stealer volume 1
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J BLA
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Edition
Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J BLA
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A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
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Wild robot volume 1
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J BRO
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First edition.
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J BRO
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Available Online
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Available Online
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
TLK-J BRO
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TLK-J BRO
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SMP-J BRO
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Unabridged.
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SMP-J BRO
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
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J BUR
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J BUR
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
10) Hurricane Child
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J CAL
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J CAL
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SMP-J CAL
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Unabridged.
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SMP-J CAL
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane-- which is considered bad luck--twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
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Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
12) Extra credit
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J CLE
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First edition.
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J CLE
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SMP-J CLE
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Edition
Unabridged.
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SMP-J CLE
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
13) Bloomability
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J CRE
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Revised paperback edition.
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J CRE
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When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
14) Bud, not Buddy
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J CUR
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Unabridged.
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On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J CUR
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Source
Available Online
Published
Source
Available Online
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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J CUR
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J CUR
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SMP-J CUR
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Edition
Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP-J CUR
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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
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First edition.
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Published
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Available Online
Published
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Available Online
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP-J DIC
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Edition
Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
SMP-J DIC
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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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J DOW
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First edition.
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J DOW
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When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
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CD-J EST
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Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J EST
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Available Online
Published
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Available Online
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
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Series
Nate volume 2
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J FED
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First edition.
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J FED
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Now on Broadway as second understudy for E.T., Nate Foster keeps in close contact with his best friend, Libby, as he faces his nemesis, Jordan Rylance, and his own insecurities as the cast member with the least training and experience.
20) The great brain
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Great Brain books volume 1
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J FIT
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J FIT
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J FIT
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Unabridged.
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Round Rock Public Library - Junior Audio/Video (1st floor) 1 available
CD-J FIT
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The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.