Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along wisth her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety , an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: sisters, family, schools, friendship, old age, new york (state) [X], large type books [X], large print books, jealousy, families, family life, school stories
Pictures Of Hollis Woods
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: family, old age, foster home care, artists, orphans, new york (state) [X], family life, large type books [X], art, painting, drawing, families, audiobooks, paintings, drawings, newbery award, newbery medal, reading counts!
My Side Of The Mountain
This is a unique and exciting first person account of a modern boy's adventurous experiment in complete self-sufficiency.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 686
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: survival, self-reliance, mountain life, survival skills, catskill mountains (n.y.), adventure and adventurers, large type books [X], new york (state) [X], outdoor life, catskill mountains, falconry, brothers and sisters, audiobooks, adventure, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, catskill mountains region (n.y.)
Farmer Boy
While Laura Ingalls grows up on the western prairie, a boy named Almanzo Wilder is living on a farm in New York State.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 146
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: farm life, historical fiction, new york (state) [X], wilder, almanzo, frontier and pioneer life, wilder, laura ingalls, families, family life, family, country life, large type books [X], historical fiction
Ragtime
The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: immigrants, african-americans, murder, homicide, united states, historical fiction, new york (state) [X], large type books [X], large print books, historical fiction
Oryx And Crake
Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx, a girl he met through a kiddie porn Web site.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: triangles (interpersonal relations), genetic engineering, male friendship, large type books [X], new york (state) [X], science fiction, love stories, dystopias, science fiction, love stories, dystopias