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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
A fresh start. That's all Evan Pao wants as he, along with his mother and sister, flee from California to Haddington, Virginia, hoping to keep his father's notoriety a secret. But Haddington...
22) Close to famous
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
250, 7 pages : [2] illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
24) Tunnel vision
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jake Lukin just turned eighteen. He's decent at tennis and Halo, and waiting to hear on his app to Stanford. But he's also being followed by a creep with a gun, and there's a DARPA agent waiting in his bedroom. His secret is blown. When Jake holds a personal object, like a pet rock or a ring, he has the ability to 'tunnel' into the owner. He can sense where they are, like a human GPS, and can see, hear, and feel what they do. It's an ability the...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As Esme introduces her stuffed animal collection that is alphabetically arranged from Alvin the aardvark to Zelda the zebra she also relates her family's military life and her father's deployment.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
27) Homefront
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it" --
29) Brotherhood
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penquin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--