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Crispin volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC AVI
1 available
J FIC AVI
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction - Newbery
J FIC AVI
1 available
J FIC AVI
1 available
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Young samurai volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
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FICTION
1 available
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Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
Bradley,K
1 available
Bradley,K
1 available
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
"Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC CURTIS,C
1 available
J FIC CURTIS,C
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC CURTIS,C
2 available
J FIC CURTIS,C
2 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC PAUL CURTIS
1 available
J FIC PAUL CURTIS
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
Curtis,C
2 available
Curtis,C
2 available
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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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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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Cat Royal volume 1
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Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
7) Allies
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It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
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In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC LOWRY,L
1 available
J FIC LOWRY,L
1 available
Los Olivos Library - Children's Fiction
Lowry,Lo
1 available
Lowry,Lo
1 available
Santa Ynez Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Demark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
10) Dust of Eden
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC NAGAI,M
1 available
J FIC NAGAI,M
1 available
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Thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese-American family are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and are relocated to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years.
11) A single shard
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction - Battle of the Books
FICTION
2 available
FICTION
2 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction - Battle of the Books
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Battle of the Books
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
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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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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC ODELL,S
1 available
J FIC ODELL,S
1 available
Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
JFIC ODELL,S
1 available
JFIC ODELL,S
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
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Buellton Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION O'DELL,S
1 available
FICTION O'DELL,S
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION O'DELL,S
3 available
FICTION O'DELL,S
3 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
13) Prairie lotus
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
J FIC PARK,L
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC PARK,L
2 available
J FIC PARK,L
2 available
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Solvang Library - Book Club
J FIC KIT
1 available
J FIC KIT
1 available
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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
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FICTION
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC PECK,R
1 available
J FIC PECK,R
1 available
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A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
15) Esperanza rising
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Los Olivos Library - Children's Fiction
Ryan,Pam
1 available
Ryan,Pam
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction - Battle of the Books
J FIC RYAN,P
1 available
J FIC RYAN,P
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Audio Visual - Battle of the Books
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
2 available
FICTION
2 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction - Newbery
J FIC SPEARE,E
1 available
J FIC SPEARE,E
1 available
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
17) Paperboy
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
VAWTER,V
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VAWTER,V
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When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
18) One crazy summer
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Gaither sisters volume 1
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction - Battle of the Books
J FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
1 available
J FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction - Battle of the Books
J FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
1 available
J FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
1 available
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC WOLK,L
1 available
J FIC WOLK,L
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC WOLK,L
1 available
J FIC WOLK,L
1 available
Solvang Library - Children's Fiction
WOLK,L
1 available
WOLK,L
1 available
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"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
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Goleta Valley Library - Children's Non-Fiction
811.54 Wood
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811.54 Wood
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Solvang Library - Children's Non-Fiction
811.54 Wood
1 available
811.54 Wood
1 available
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...