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The Magician’s Elephant

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Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Yoko TanakaPublication Details
Book1st edCandlewick Press2009Description
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected ? When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 D545e NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Prince Of Fenway Park

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Julianna BaggottPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2009Description
Someone deliberately jinxed the team, and the secret to breaking the Curse lies deep below Fenway Park, with Oscar’s dad and the Cursed Creatures, a group that has been doomed to live out their miserable lives below Fenway until the Curse is broken. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B145p AVAILABLE
The Amaranth Enchantment

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Julie BerryPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edBloomsbury2009Links
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In this magical story filled with delightful surprises, Lucinda will dance at the royal ball, fall under the Amaranth Witch?s spell, avenge her parents? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B5345a AVAILABLE
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

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John H. RitterPublication Details
BookPhilomel Books2009Description
Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Fortunately, Dillontown is home to two boys who know a little something about winning. One is young Jack Dillon, nephew to Dillontown founder Long John Dillon. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 R614d AVAILABLE
Peace, Locomotion

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Jacqueline WoodsonPublication Details
BookG.P. Putnam’s Sons2009Description
Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. he?s happy that he and Lili have new families, but though his new family brings him joy, it also brings new worries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 W898p AVAILABLE
Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events

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Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures ; a Parkes/MacDonald production ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; a Brad Silberling film ; produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Jim Van Wyck ; screenplay by Robert Gordon ; directed by Brad SilberlingPublication Details
VideoFull screenParamount Home Entertainment2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) PN1997.L45 S553 DUE 11-18-09
The Good Thief : A Novel

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by Hannah TintiPublication Details
BookDial Press2008Description
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren?s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3620.I56 G66 2008 AVAILABLE
The Graveyard Book

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Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKeanPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins Publishers2008Description
Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians’ time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 G141g AVAILABLE CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 G141g c.2 AVAILABLE
A Curse Dark As Gold

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Elizabeth C. BuncePublication Details
Book1st edArthur A. Levine Books2008Description
Something pulled out from the brown straw and through his knobby fingers, and where it should have gone onto the spindle, the finest strands of gleaming gold threads appeared. I don’t know how long we watched it, turning and turning, flashing gold with every revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B941c AVAILABLE
Way Down Deep

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Ruth WhitePublication Details
Book1st edFarrar Straus Giroux2007Links
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Although Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, no one in Way Down Deep, West Virginia, ever worried too much about where the toddler came from. But when Ruby is twelve, a new family moves to Way Down Deep, and they inadvertently provide enough clues about Ruby?s past that she is able to find her own people. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 W5872w AVAILABLE
Ellen Foster

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Kaye GibbonsPublication Details
BookVintage Books1997Description
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons’s first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3557.I13917 E4 1997 AVAILABLE
The Willoughbys

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Lois LowryPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin2008Description
Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 L921w AVAILABLE
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The Effects Of Early Social-emotional And Relationship Experience On The Development Of Young Orphanage Children
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The St. Petersburg USA Orphanage Research Team ; with commentary by Susan C. Crockenberg … [et al.]Publication Details
Book, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008Tags
Orphans · Russia · Psychology · Child development · Developmental psychology · Orphanages · Crockenberg, Susan C · Collins, W. Andrew, 1944-Availability