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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .B6237 G2 1979
1 available
JUV FIC .B6237 G2 1979
1 available
Summary
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .P22115 S5 2001
1 available
JUV FIC .P22115 S5 2001
1 available
Summary
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV PS3573 .I444 V5
1 available
JUV PS3573 .I444 V5
1 available
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A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .L5385 W85 1962
1 available
JUV FIC .L5385 W85 1962
1 available
Summary
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .P338 Y4 2000
1 available
JUV FIC .P338 Y4 2000
1 available
Summary
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Laramie County Community College - Main Collection
JUV FIC .V746 2006
1 available
JUV FIC .V746 2006
1 available
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The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .K946 A2 1953
1 available
JUV FIC .K946 A2 1953
1 available
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A memorable and deeply moving story of a family of New Mexican sheepherders, in which Miguel, neither child nor man, tells of his great longing to accompany men and sheep to summer pasture, and expresses his need to be recognized as a maturing individual.
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Laramie County Community College - Albany Campus - Juvenile Collection
JUV PZ7 .P273 B7 1977
2 available
JUV PZ7 .P273 B7 1977
2 available
Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .P273 B7 1977
1 available
JUV FIC .P273 B7 1977
1 available
Summary
Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .C94137 B8 1999
1 available
JUV FIC .C94137 B8 1999
1 available
Summary
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
10) Caddie Woodlawn
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .B78 C1 1969
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JUV FIC .B78 C1 1969
1 available
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
11) Call it courage
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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .L348 C2 1955
1 available
JUV FIC .L348 C2 1955
1 available
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A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .D5455 T3 2003
1 available
JUV FIC .D5455 T3 2003
1 available
Summary
"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
14) Holes
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .S1185 H65 1998
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JUV FIC .S1185 H65 1998
1 available
Summary
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
15) The giver
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .L9673 G4 1993
2 available
JUV FIC .L9673 G4 1993
2 available
Summary
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
16) Out of the dust
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .H4364 O9 1997
1 available
JUV FIC .H4364 O9 1997
1 available
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Nonfiction
JUV PB .P37 L2 2015
2 available
JUV PB .P37 L2 2015
2 available
Summary
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
18) Number the stars
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Laramie County Community College - Albany Campus - Juvenile Collection
JUV PZ7 .L9673 N9 1989
1 available
JUV PZ7 .L9673 N9 1989
1 available
Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .L9673 N9 1989
1 available
JUV FIC .L9673 N9 1989
1 available
Summary
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV FIC .G127 G738 2008
1 available
JUV FIC .G127 G738 2008
1 available
Summary
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Laramie County Community College - Juvenile Collection
JUV PZ10.3 .C629 C5
1 available
JUV PZ10.3 .C629 C5
1 available
Summary
This is the story of a little cat who came to the home of a poor Japanese artist and brought him good fortune.