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182) The golden goblet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.
184) The Perilous Gard
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
In 1558 while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in northern England, teenaged Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.
185) Getting near to baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby.
187) The secret river
Author
Language
English
Description
A young girl takes her dog to a river in a forest, where she catches enough fish to feed her neighbors, even after giving some to forest creatures she meets on the way home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1944]
Language
English
Description
A fictionized biography of the man who left England to fight for freedom of speech and liberty of worship in colonial America. He founded a settlement in what is now Rhode Island and helped to create a truly democratic government.
190) Tree of freedom
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.
192) The singing tree
Author
Language
English
Description
"Life changes drastically for a Hungarian family when World War I upsets their peaceful, contented existence and the children are left in charge of the farm."--
193) The Gammage cup
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
A handful of Minnipins, a sober and sedate people, rise up against the Periods, the leading family of an isolated mountain valley, and are exiled to a mountain where they discover that the ancient enemies of their people are preparing to attack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
195) Crazy lady!
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper/Collins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood "outcasts,"
196) Dragon's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir"--
198) What Jamie saw
Author
Series
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
199) Sugaring time
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
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