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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Owen Foote, Frontiersman	Stephanie Greene	Second grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.	OL102453W
Jewish marriage and divorce in imperial Russia / ChaeRan Y. Freeze	ChaeRan Y Freeze	"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the explo…	OL12330723W
Fierce people	Dirk Wittenborn	"New York's Lower East Side, 1978. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit reaches its breaking point, she seeks sanctua…	OL129250W
Mama, will you hold my hand?	Anna Pignataro	A mother assures her son that they will always be together, no matter what comes their way.	OL13604225W
Annie's Ghosts	Steve Luxenberg	Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Everyone knew it: her grown children, her friends, even people she’d only recently met. So when her secret emerged, her son Steve Luxenberg was bewildered. He was ce…	OL13759939W
Esther Waters, a novel	George Moore	Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another em…	OL1381165W
You're a brave man, Julius Zimmerman	Claudia Mills	Twelve-year-old Julius has his hands full over the summer when his mother attempts to improve his grades and teach him responsibility by signing him up for a French class and getting him a job babysi…	OL14418W
Until I find you	John Irving	Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns -- his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Ali…	OL14858712W
The world according to Garp	John Irving	"A Henry Robbins book."	OL14858722W
Novels (Black House / Talisman)	Stephen King,Peter Straub	Contains: - [The Talisman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15119769W/The_Talisman) - [Black House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15119768W/Black_House)	OL14917584W
Zack's story	Keith Elliot Greenberg	An eleven-year-old boy describes life as part of a family made up of himself, his mother and her lesbian partner.	OL14919489W
Resan till världens ände	Henning Mankell	In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival of a letter giving new…	OL14970071W
Wing nut	Mary Jane Auch	When twelve-year-old Grady and his mother relocate yet again, they find work taking care of an elderly man, who teaches Grady about cars, birds, and what it means to have a home.	OL15043373W
Return to Sender	Fern Michaels	In Return to Sender, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels spins a compelling, unforgettable story about love, family, friendship, and the courage it takes to let go of the past... At…	OL15107579W
Disobedience	Jane Hamilton	A young man awaits the consequences of his mother's extramarital affair with a violin-maker, information he discovers when he accidentally stumbles across her e-mailbox. From Jane Hamilton, author of…	OL15137937W
Froggy learns to swim	Jonathan London	Froggy is afraid of the water until his mother, along with his flippers, snorkle, and mask, help him learn to swim.	OL15140269W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Operation rhinoceros	Lee Wardlaw	Jeffrey plans a way to combat the fact that he is losing all of his friends in the fifth grade because his mother is the new teacher.	OL15286953W
What you see in the dark	Manuel Muñoz	A murder occurs in a small town where Alfred Hitchcock plans to shoot scenes for <i>Psycho</i> .	OL15520933W
Jakeman	Deborah Ellis	Jake and his sister Shoshona have been under foster care since their single mother was arrested for possession and trafficking three years before. Both have found their own ways to cope: Shoshona has…	OL15855701W