Sarah Beth Goer
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Language
English
Description
Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin's address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel's Journey offers a fresh perspective...
Author
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English
Description
Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin's address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel's Journey offers a fresh perspective...
3) Best wishes
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Series
Best wishes ; 1
Language
English
Description
"After her best friend ditches her, fifth-grader Becca, feeling devastated and alone, yearns for people to like her, so when a magical bracelet grants her wish to have loads of friends, she soon discovers having a dream come true is not as simple as it seems."--
Author
Series
Goosebumps ; 12
Language
English
Description
Discover the bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time. Now with all-new bonus materials!
Samantha Byrd is a klutz. An accident waiting to happen. And that makes her the least popular member of the girls' basketball team.But all of that is about to change. Sam's met someone who can grant her three wishes.Too bad Sam wasn't more careful when she asked for. BEcause her wishes are coming...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year--a year of missing Nina. A year of milestones--holidays, birthdays, everything without her. Leo feels like she should remember what happened that night. But all she knows is that she left the party and got into a car with Nina and Nina's boyfriend, East. East, who once promised Nina he'd watch out for her younger sister. East, who has been trying to keep that promise every day since. But East won't give Leo the one thing she wants--the...
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English
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"In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman's head off with a Revolutionary War style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would be quieter when she left New York City and bought a tiny Vermont radio station. But now, Edwin Anger -- the ranting and raving radio talk show host who Jaye recently fired -- lies dead in the snow. And the Edwin Anger fans who protested his dismissal are sure she killed...
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English
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"Once upon a time, the Peacock sisters were little girls who combed each other's tangled hair. But decades of secrets have led them to separate lives--and to telling lies, to themselves and to one another. Sylvie is getting married. Again. A librarian and widow who soothes her grief by escaping into books (and shelving them perfectly), Sylvie has caught the attention of an unlikely match: Simon Rampling, a mysterious, wealthy man from Northern England....
Author
Series
Devouring Gray ; 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Four teenagers have the power to protect their town from a monster, but only if their families' secrets do not destroy them first." --
Justin Hawthorne's bloodline has protected Four Paths for generations from the Gray-- a lifeless dimension that imprisons a brutal monster-- but Justin has not inherited his family's powers. Violet Saunders's family moves to Four Paths after her sister's death; her mother belongs to one of the revered founding families...
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English
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"Brings to life a not too distant history of immigration to Ellis Island. When it's time for nine-year-old Gittel and her mother to leave their homeland behind and go to America for the promise of a new life, a health inspection stops any chance of Gittel's mother joining her daughter on the voyage. Knowing she may never see her mother again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave her family behind"--
12) Night music
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English
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"Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the prodigy of her father, a renowned composer." --
Ruby-- future classical pianist, heir to the Chertok family legacy. Until she bungles her audition for the Amberley School of Music, where her father, renowned composer Martin Chertokis, is on the faculty. Oscar-- wunderkind, musical genius, conducting his own compositions...
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English
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Fans of Claudia Gray and Kelly Link will love Hannah Fergesen's wild and poignant debut-a wacky time-traveling sci-fi odyssey wrapped in an elegiac ode to lost friendship and a clever homage to Doctor Who.
To save the future, she must return to the beginning.
Three years after her best friend Peggy went missing, Harper Starling is lost. Lost in her dead-end job, lost in her grief. All she has are regrets and reruns of her favorite science fiction...
Author
Series
Devouring Gray ; 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Unable to convince her fellow Founders that a new threat is lurking in Four Paths, May Hawthorne is forced to turn to her despised father for help, while family history complicates Isaac and Violet's efforts to destroy the Gray." --
15) Vacancy
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English
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The latest chilling frightfest from horror master K. R. Alexander . . . this time centering around a spooky hotel where guests do NOT check out the way they check in.
The latest chilling frightfest from horror master K. R. Alexander . . . this time centering around a spooky hotel where guests do NOT check out the way they check in.
Praise for The Collector:
"A good introduction to supernatural horror for middle-grade readers, with a suspenseful...
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English
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He's chasing his dreams. She's hiding from her past. Can a hometown fundraiser heal their broken hearts? Jace Scholte is determined to rise above his poverty-stricken childhood. Years after a real estate developer took him under his wing, Jace has a mission: return to his hometown of Sweet Creek and win the residents' support for a high-rise condo. He volunteers in a local fundraiser to melt their resistance, but he never expected he'd work side-by-side...
17) Homecoming
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Series
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English
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A heart broken twice from love and family. Can a trip to the ranch give her a second chance with both? Sheryl Kyle isn't the trusting type. After all, her abusive late husband and her disapproving stepfather haven't given her much reason to feel otherwise. But when a rugged rancher named Mark seeks her out she learns her stepfather is on his deathbed. And his dying wish is for her to return to Sweet Creek for one last chance to reconcile . . . Mark...
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English
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As the plain older sibling to two beautiful sisters, Nadine Laidlaw is used to being overlooked. But she refuses to let her late father's employer overlook his suspicious death. She aims to use her job as editor of the town newspaper to probe into the case, but there's only one problem. Her secret high school crush Clint just took over the paper, and he wants the story buried . . . With her past feelings bubbling to the surface, Nadine continues to...
19) The Fear Zone 2
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English
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They thought the fears were gone.
They thought the nightmares would stop haunting them.
But the five of them were wrong.
They're older now. They're friends. But that friendship can be shattered so easily when life turns scary again.
It was bad enough when it was just clowns and sharks and snakes. Back then, they had to conquer their own fear.
Now ... they have to conquer everyone else's.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Drum dream girl: A young girl fulfills her dreams in this video treatment of the acclaimed Pura Belpre' Award winner. -- Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--that is, until the drum dream girl. When at last her dream-bright music was heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke...