Julia Gillian (and The Quest For Joy)
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: school stories, friendship, trumpets, secrecy, family life, minneapolis (minn.) [X], fear, saint bernard dog, dogs, death, reading, middle schools, families, schools, best friends, trumpet, secrets, neighborhoods, neighborhood, family, pets, animals
Home Of The Brave
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
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David Inside Out
At a Minneapolis high school, a cross-country runner tries to deny his sexual feelings for a male teammate.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490
Flesh Wounds
When Hal Lamm, a Minneapolis salesman, is arrested for molesting his granddaughter, the entire family must come to terms with their denial, memories, hidden secrets, and unhealed wounds in the hopes of achieving reconciliation.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Mudball
During a rainy Minneapolis Millers baseball game in 1903, Little Andy Oyler has the chance to become a hero by hitting the shortest and muddiest home run in history.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: baseball, historical fiction, minneapolis (minn.) [X], baseball, minneapolis millers, minneapolis (minn.), rain
The Antelope Wife
Cavalry soldier Scranton Roy sets the stage for generations of family patterns when he abandons his post during a raid on a peaceful Ojibwa village to chase after a dog carrying a baby strapped to its back, and settles down with the child in frontier Minnesota.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: native americans, domestic fiction, family, indians of north america, ojibwa indians, minneapolis (minn.) [X]
Four Souls
Fleur Pillager, an Ojibwe Native-American upset with the lumber company that stripped her reservation of trees, walks to the twin cities for revenge and lives with Polly Elizabeth Gheen, a vulnerable upper-class women who is transformed with Fleur's guidance.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: native american women, identity (psychology), laundresses, land tenure, minneapolis (minn.) [X], north dakota
Falling Boy
Sixteen-year-old Joseph is left paralyzed by a mysterious accident, is living with his father, and working in a bakery; while his two friends, Zap and Enzo, who believe Joseph is really a superhero, set out to discover the mystery of his life and past.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: accident victims, teenagers with disabilities, teenagers, accidents, minneapolis (minn.) [X]
Maria Takes A Stand
Maria takes up the cause of women's suffrage in Minneapolis near the beginning of World War I and must rely on God to give her the strength to do the right thing.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: suffragists, women's rights, german americans, prejudices, world war, 1914-1918, minneapolis (minn.) [X]
Hidden Prey
Minnesota detective Lucas Davenport uncovers links to a Communist spy network in Duluth after a Russian man is found there, shot dead with fifty-four-year-old bullets.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: davenport, lucas (fictitious character), private investigators, davenport, lucas (fictional character), minneapolis (minn.) [X], mystery fiction
Amplified
Omar, Dylan, Amy and Joey, the first four members of the Revolution team, are searching for the next fragment of Tony Hawk's powerful 900 skateboard in Minneapolis, and their search leads them to a teen who is tuned into the Artifact, but the evil Collective once again stands in their way.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: skateboarding, secret societies, friendship, minneapolis (minn.) [X], adventure fiction, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction
Pretend You Don't See Her
A dying murder victim entrusts real estate agent Lacey Farrell with her journal, which contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program cannot keep Lacey safe.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: women real estate agents, witnesses, mystery fiction, minneapolis (minn.) [X], new york (n.y.)
Water, Water Everywhere
In 1899, in Minneapolis, Ruby Payne's decision to ask African-American Preacher Wil to join the team causes division among the other players, and the magical baseball will not work unless the team is united.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: baseball, supernatural, race relations, african americans, brothers and sisters, minneapolis (minn.) [X], siblings
Archangel
Danny Constantine, a young newspaperman in an alternate universe Minneapolis in the late 1920's, discovers a series of vampire murders that are somehow linked to the research of Dr.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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