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81) Hidden roots
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.
82) Here today
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kat Van Tassel wants nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's ghostly history. But when her mother gives her the original Katrina van Tassel's diary on the two-hundredth anniversary of the Headless Horseman's haunting, a new legend begins to take shape, weaving together the past and the present in eerie ways. When a new girl in town opens Kat's eyes to the possibility that ghosts are real, it makes her question who she truly wants to be...and be with....
85) Egypt's fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. The foolish school teacher, Ichabod Crane, is besotted with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel. Surely there can be nothing to stand in the way of his designs on her fortune. Sadly for him, imagination is a dangerous thing in Sleepy Hollow, and Katrina is in the sights of another who claims to have bettered...
87) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
88) The normal kid
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, fifth-graders Sylvan, whose parents' divorce causes him stress, and Charity, who lived in Kenya for the past five years, both strive for normalcy at school and start a petition to keep their teacher, Mr. In, from being fired.
89) Fashion frenzy
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Frannie "practices being a fashion designer" at the mother- daughter fashion show, everyone is surprised by the consequences.
Author
Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
91) Bittersweet
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Language
English
Description
Hudson Avery gave up a promising competitive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 1931 Cameroon, young Kedi is upset to learn that children in her American teacher's village of New York are going hungry because of the Great Depression, and she asks her mother, neighbors, and even the headman for money to help. Includes historical notes.
93) Camper girl
Author
Publisher
Fitzroy Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her estranged aunt, a teen journeys into a northern wilderness and uncovers a tragic family secret"--Provided by publisher.
95) Lan zi yue liang
Author
Publisher
Er shi yi shi ji chu ban she
Language
中文
Description
After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.
96) One-handed catch
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Author
Series
Pioneer trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the sudden death of her best friend, eleven-year-old Daisy finds it hard to get excited about things like her new baby sister and her community service project for Hebrew school, but new middle school friends and supportive family members help Daisy discover a way to move forward.
99) The haunted
Author
Series
Haunted (Vega) volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house. Clean slate. That's what Hendricks Becker-O'Malley's parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things...
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