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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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5th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond novels volume 1
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 1
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 1
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 1
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 1
Language
English
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Tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover a body in a remote area of Oklahoma, and set out to investigate her murder and recreate her last days. Maytubby and Bond crisscross Oklahoma, meeting a myriad of characters and suspects. Maytubby travels to Louisiana, and uncovers a potential conspiracy. He and Bond eventually reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for a final face-off at Nail's Crossing.
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Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond novels volume 2
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 2
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 2
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 2
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload...
7) Hereafter
Author
Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.
8) Arise
Author
Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Dark spirits and ill omens arise as Amelia, a ghost still trapped somewhere between life and death, continues to fight for her relationship with the human boy Joshua"--
9) Elegy
Author
Series
Hereafter trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Faced with an impossible choice between the forces of Light and the boy she loves, ghostly Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands... and fight back"--
11) Possum summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While her father is away at war, eleven-year-old Princess ignores his warning that pet ownership leads to pain when she raises an orphaned possum on their Oklahoma ranch, then tries to send it back to the wild.
12) Jingle dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
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English
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When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant.
16) The outsiders
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English
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Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
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English
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
19) Twist
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Language
English
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A group of gifted middle-school students must band together to save their town, as well as a fantasy world, from monsters.
20) Butcher Pen Road
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Series
Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 3
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
On Oklahoma’s Big Rock Prairie, a deaf boy finds a body in Pennington Creek. Johnston County Deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sergeant Bill Maytubby find a crime scene where nothing seems to fit—from the dead angler’s oversize waders to the kind of fish in his creel. They scour the creekside brush, then hit the road for Texas in a widening search for the killer. On the Big Rock, a towering bearded man is building a limestone...
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