Out Of The Dust

This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved …

Witness

Karen Hesse's Newbery Award-winning skills are put to great use in Witness, a poetic tale about friendship, fanaticism, and the deadly undercurrents of racial prejudice. The story takes place in a small Vermont town in the year 1924, revealing the devastating impact of the Ku Klux Klan on this pastoral, insular community. At the heart of the tale are two motherless girls who come to the attenti…

Demian

Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, ac…

Sam and the Lucky Money

Sam can hardly wait to go shopping with his mom. It's Chinese New Year's day and his grandparents have given him the traditional gift of lucky money–red envelopes called leisees (lay-sees). This year Sam is finally old enough to spend it any way he chooses. Best of all, he gets to spend his lucky money in his favorite place — Chinatown! But when Sam realizes that his grandparents' gift is n…

The Great Transformation

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9780385721240

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200.9014 ARM T

Holy War : The Crusades And Their Impact On Today's World

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Second Edition

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9780385721400

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2

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909 ARM H

Steve Jobs : The Man Who Thought Different

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9781250014450

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920 BLU S

Game Sound : An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Ga…

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9780262033787

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200p; ill; bw; hc

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781.54 COL G

This Is Where I Am

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9781408832738

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467p; bw; pbk

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823 CAM T

I Can Share!

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9780448455921

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24p; ill; col; pbk

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KAT