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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015?] | First U.S. edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 282 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Rawlings Branch - ADULT FICTION |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge—a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,
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| c2012 | Sterling Children's Books | 270 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm. | English | On Shelf
Avondale Elementary School - YOUTH J EVAN Beulah Satellite - YOUTH J EVAN |
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Ten-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends. But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart is swept up in a quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tony's marvelous, long-lost workshop.
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| c2012 | Sterling Children's Books | 349 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm. | English | On Shelf
Lamb Branch - YOUTH J EVAN Rawlings Branch - YOUTH has 2 J EVAN |
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Ten-year-old Stuart, having become the junior curator of the museum exhibition showcasing his great-uncle Tony's long-lost magic, enters the magical world of the workshop once more to find Tony's will and is faced with a series of puzzles that become harder and harder to solve.
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4) Old Baggage
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The author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying to find her new passion in post-WWI era London.1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club-an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie-memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind...
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5) Their Finest
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From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another longlisted for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England.
It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help "write women" into propaganda films-something that the men aren't very...
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6) Wed Wabbit
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | First edition. | David Fickling Books, Scholastic Inc | 248 pages : illustration ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Pueblo West Branch - YOUTH J EVAN |
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Follows eleven-year-old Fidge's adventures with three companions as they try to solve a series of clues, deal with a cruel stuffed animal dictator and an army of monsters.
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It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women" into propaganda films-something that the men aren't very good at. She is quickly seconded to the Ministry's latest endeavor: a heart-warming tale of bravery and rescue at Dunkirk. It's all completely...
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