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CAMERON, SHARON
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CAMERON, SHARON
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Cottonwood Public Library - TZFIC - Teen Zone - Fiction
CAMERON, SHARON LIG
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CAMERON, SHARON LIG
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Granville Elementary School - FIC - Fiction Books
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CAM
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Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgorska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
2) Kent State
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Prescott Valley Public Library - CDBKFIC - CD Book Collection - Fiction
WILES, DEBORAH KENT
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WILES, DEBORAH KENT
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
WILES, DEBORAH
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WILES, DEBORAH
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Prescott Valley Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
WILES, DEBORAH KENT
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WILES, DEBORAH KENT
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Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
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Camp Verde Community Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
CHEE, T.
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CHEE, T.
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Chino Valley High School - FIC - Fiction Books
CHE
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CHE
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Mingus Union High School - FIC - Fiction Books
CHE
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CHE
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
HEMPHILL, STEPHANIE
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HEMPHILL, STEPHANIE
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A lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation.-- adapted from jacket flap.
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
LAI, THANHHA
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LAI, THANHHA
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Prescott Valley Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
LAI, THANHHA BUTTERFLY
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LAI, THANHHA BUTTERFLY
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Sedona Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
LAI, T.
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LAI, T.
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In the final days of the Vißt Nam War, Hłng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. When Linh is ripped from her arms, Hłng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hłng is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn't know how she will find her little brother until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her. Reunited with Linh, she realizes he doesn't...
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LEE, STACEY DOWNSTAIRS
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LEE, STACEY DOWNSTAIRS
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Camp Verde Community Library - FIC - Fiction Books
LEE, S.
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LEE, S.
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Camp Verde Community Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
LEE, S.
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LEE, S.
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Cottonwood Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
LEE, STACEY DOW
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LEE, STACEY DOW
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
7) Lifeboat 12
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Granite Mountain Middle School - FIC - Fiction Books
HOO
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HOO
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Prescott Public Library - JFIC - Children's Area - Fiction
HOOD
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HOOD
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Yarnell Public Library - JFIC - Children's Area - Fiction
HOOD, SUSAN
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HOOD, SUSAN
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
8) Dread nation
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Camp Verde Community Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
IRELAND, J.
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IRELAND, J.
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Cottonwood Public Library - TZFIC - Teen Zone - Fiction
IRELAND, J.
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IRELAND, J.
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Prescott Valley Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
IRELAND, JUSTINA DREAD # 1
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IRELAND, JUSTINA DREAD # 1
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"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained...
9) Grenade
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Camp Verde Community Library - JFIC - Children's Area - Fiction
GRATZ, A.
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GRATZ, A.
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Glassford Hill Middle School - FIC - Fiction Books
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GRA
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Granville Elementary School - FIC - Fiction Books
GRA
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GRA
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
10) Olivia Twist
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Olivia Brownlow, born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, is as tough and cunning as they come. Taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, she's now a debutante in high society. But she can't forget the teeming slums where children still scrabble to survive. Jack MacCarron, once known as the Artful Dodger, became the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. He and his "aunt" are robbing society blind every chance...
11) Four-four-two
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Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary School - FIC - Fiction Books
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HUG
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Glassford Hill Middle School - FIC - Fiction Books
HUG
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HUG
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Heritage Middle School Library - FIC - Fiction Books
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HUG
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Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
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Bradshaw Mountain High School - FIC - Fiction Books
ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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Chino Valley High School - FIC - Fiction Books
ELL
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ELL
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Glassford Hill Middle School - FIC - Fiction Books
ELL
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ELL
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Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her family's Virginia home. The civil war has broken out, and Annie Sinclair's Virginia home, Hickory Heights, is right in the line of battle. Caught up in the rising conflict, Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers while Annie's older...
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Cottonwood Public Library - LTNEW - Large Type Area - New Arrivals
MCCULLOUGH, J.
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MCCULLOUGH, J.
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Camp Verde Community Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
MCCULLOUGH, J.
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MCCULLOUGH, J.
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Paulden Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
MCCULLOUGH, JOY
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MCCULLOUGH, JOY
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
MCCULLOUGH, JOY
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MCCULLOUGH, JOY
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had to choose: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the...
14) African Town
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
LATHAM, IRENE
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LATHAM, IRENE
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Prescott Valley Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
LATHAM, IRENE AFRICAN
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LATHAM, IRENE AFRICAN
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Sedona Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
LATHAM, I.
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LATHAM, I.
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings...
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Cottonwood Public Library - TZFIC - Teen Zone - Fiction
GANSWORTH, E.
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GANSWORTH, E.
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Glassford Hill Middle School - FIC - Fiction Books
GAN
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GAN
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Lake Valley Elementary School (K-6) - FIC - Fiction Books
GAN
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GAN
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Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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Prescott Public Library - TZ - Teen Zone
WILLIAMS-GARCIA, RITA
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WILLIAMS-GARCIA, RITA
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Prescott Valley Public Library - YAFIC - Young Adult Area - Fiction
WILLIAMS-GARCIA, RITA SITTING
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WILLIAMS-GARCIA, RITA SITTING
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In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. It will be a testament to all the hardships she overcame, the glory her life ought to have been....