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The Babe & I The Babe & I David A. Adler While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. OL121644W
Hope In My Heart Hope In My Heart Kathryn Lasky After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions.… OL121821W
Blizzard Of the Blue Moon Blizzard Of the Blue Moon Mary Pope Osborne,Marcela Brovelli,Sal Murdocca Merlin has sent Jack and Annie on another mission to rescue a beautiful magical creature, the unicorn. AC 44650. OL15131069W
Little Lion Little Lion Ann Hood Now that the twins have begun to settle into their new lives at Elm Medona, they delve deeper into The Treasure Chest and uncover more about the Pickworth family, including the disappearance of their… OL15936003W
Wonderstruck Wonderstruck Brian Selznick Expanding upon the genre-breaking form he invented in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick creates another awe-inspiring and multi-layered reading experience. Wo… OL15936008W
Laundry day Laundry day Maurie Manning In turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City, a shoeshine boy tries to find the owner of a piece of red cloth, venturing up and down fire escapes, back and forth across clotheslines, and into the c… OL16603813W
Kaspar prince of cats Kaspar prince of cats Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's th… OL16798841W
Hurry up, Houdini (Magic Tree House #50) Hurry up, Houdini (Magic Tree House #50) Mary Pope Osborne,Sal Murdocca Join Jack and Annie as they meet Harry Houdini, one of the world's most famous illusionists. OL17051836W
Born of illusion Born of illusion Teri J. Brown "Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actual… OL17862711W
The giant The giant Jonathan Mary-Todd In 1874 Manhattan, Luc, sixteen, at nearly seven feet tall and seemingly impervious to pain, has become a local boxing star but when kangaroos are introduced to the ring, Luc's tender heart leads him… OL17890349W
The book for my homework The book for my homework Carla Stevens I need to use this book for homework OL1909673W
The Nutcracker in Harlem The Nutcracker in Harlem T. E. McMorrow In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tal… OL19722938W
Days like this Days like this J. Torres,Scott Chantler In the early 1960s, Anna Solomon, recently divorced from a music mogul, decides to start her own record label. The first act she signs is Tina & the Tiaras. Add one talented song writer named Karen S… OL19923625W
Catch You Later, Traitor Catch You Later, Traitor Avi "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, ac… OL19997615W
Rebel Mechanics (Rebel Mechanics #1) Rebel Mechanics (Rebel Mechanics #1) Shanna Swendson *All is Fair in Love and Revolution* An alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic, and the colonists rebel by inventing. It’s 1888, and sixteen-year-old Verity Newton lands … OL20007194W
Chains Chains Laurie Halse Anderson After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. OL20498021W
The Luxe (Luxe Series, Book 1) The Luxe (Luxe Series, Book 1) Anna Godbersen The story is set in New York City, 1899 and revolves around Society's elite: the glamour, grandeur, glittering parties, handsome beaux, beautiful debutantes, rich girl, humble boy, stolen glances ... OL21180835W
Rebecca to the rescue Rebecca to the rescue Jacqueline Dembar Greene While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone. OL2649698W
Hattie on her way Hattie on her way Clara Gillow Clark In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educate… OL3002799W
Catch a tiger by the toe Catch a tiger by the toe Ellen Levine In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the s… OL695985W
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