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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Harrowing loss, psychological trauma, and a deadly mystery test the human will to survive in this electrifying novel from award-winning author Brian Freeman. Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls , named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the Dark Star.;...
3) The daughter
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
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Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
A grieving father, private investigator Cal Weaver, offers a ride to a teenage girl in the hopes of finding information on the drug dealer responsible for his son's death, but discovers a web of secrets and lies in the small upstate New York town of Griffon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding...
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Edition
1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
9) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about segregation and family.
11) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
14) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
15) Into the dark
Author
Series
Cincinnati volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger intensifies when Michael witnesses a stranger kill his stepfather. Desperate and afraid, the boys have nowhere...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
17) The Thief Lord
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves him confined to a wheelchair, Amish farmer James Lapp decides it is best to part with girlfriend Rachel King, until a runaway Englisher girl helps him to realize that true strength lies within.
Author
Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brayden Bunny doesn't feel like picking up his toys or washing his whiskers. It'd be so much easier to live with his friends, so Brayden decides to give it a try. But every new home he visits come with a new problem: Missy Mouse's house is too messy, Benny Badger's house smells a little funny, and Fipsi Squirrel's house is too high. At last Brayden Bunny visits his Cousin Pepi. Everything there is perfect and easy, but it doesn't take long for Brayden...