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The American revolution, 1776
British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape.Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven years old! He'd barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. How could he, while being worked to the bone by his cruel uncle, Uriah Storch?But when his uncle's rage forces him to flee the…
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- 9780545919739
- Collation
- 118p,:bw
- Series Title
- I Survived #15
- Call Number
- F TAR t
The great Chicago fire, 1871
Could an entire city really burn to the ground? Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode.An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wan…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780545658461
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill.
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- I Survived #11
- Call Number
- F TAR t
The great Molasses flood, 1919
One hundred years ago, a killer wave of molasses struck a crowded Boston neighborhood. Discover the story of this strange disaster in the next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series. It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North…
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- 9781338317411
- Collation
- 144 p. ; ill.
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- I Survived #19
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- F TAR t
The Wellington avalanche, 1910
The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was―and still is―the deadliest avalanche in America’s history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the frozen nightmare pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat …
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- 9781338752564
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- 144 p. ; ill.
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- I Survived #22
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- F TAR t
The Nazi invasion, 1944
In one of the darkest periods in history, one boy struggles to survive.... In this gripping addition to the bestselling I Survived series, a young Jewish boy joins the resistance “partisan” fighters outside the Warsaw ghetto. Does he have what it takes to survive the Nazis—and fight back?
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- 9780545459389
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- 112 p.; ill.
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- I Survived #9
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- F TAR t
The Joplin tornado, 2011
A destructive force is about to hit the city of Joplin... Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Jopl…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780545658485
- Collation
- 89p,;bw
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- I Survived #12
- Call Number
- F TAR t
Minor detail
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781913097172
- Collation
- 112 p. ; 19,5 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 823 SHI M
The four winds: a novel
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, ther…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781250178619
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- 450 p. ; 21 cm
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- -
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- 823 HAN T
The prime of miss Jean Brodie
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into …
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- 9781781129241
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- 265 p. ; 20 cm
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- 823 SPA t
The songbird and the rambutan tree
Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even if it means putting up with her snooty classmate, Violet. Then the Japanese army invades—and as war erupts…
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- 9781631638206
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- 306 p. ; ill. ; 21,5 cm
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- -
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- 823 ABE t
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