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Ya-Yas volume 1
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English
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“Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author’s gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved.”— Seattle Weekly
The companion novel to Rebecca Wells’s celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Who can resist the rich cadences
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Chime travelers volume 2
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English
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Katie joins her friends in being mean to the new girl, Lily. But suddenly, Katie becomes the new girl - in 1675! She has no idea how she traveled in time to a Native American village, but she's hoping the young woman she meets will be nicer to her than Katie was to Lily. Tekakwitha is a quiet girl with scars on her face from a terrible disease. Tekakwitha's family doesn't accept her because of her faith, and soon she and Katie have to run away in...
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Two immigrant friends, Jewish Minnie and Catholic Tessa, work long hours at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and when a fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, trapping dozens of workers inside, they help one another to escape the flames. Includes facts about the factory, the fire, and its aftermath.
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Chime travelers volume 3
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English
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Patrick and his twin sister Katie are shocked to learn someone threw a brick through a stained glass window at St. Anne's, then Patrick time travels to 1205 and helps a young Francis of Assisi repair an old church.
10) London calling
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English
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Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light transports him to the bombing of London in 1940.
11) A single bead
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A year after her grandmother's death in an airplane crash, Katelyn and her family visit the field where it happened, and Kate finds a single bead from her grandmother's rosary, and as more beads show up, Kate learns that people are crediting the beads with saving their lives--but can the story of the miraculous beads can save Kate's mother from the depression that is ruining her life?
12) Stella days
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English
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A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
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OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
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"The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr....
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