Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7236&N=3+7238+6644 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519605 When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392715 In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1189042 Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544991 Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516382 After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marlys family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=483463 Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=371347 In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516383 When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dogs real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130987 As further evidence of his familys bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=8503 Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=165925 Liberated for a year from her parents restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=95731 After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mothers route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135810 After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=175155 A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=245222 When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamins father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=258180 A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=258794 A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=35498 Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=64526 A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blakes inn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=59866 The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her fathers remarriage, and the death of her best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=97275 The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158888 The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=161326 Follows the adventures of an Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed, and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=71141 In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138443 In the 1920s a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33639 Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27307 When new folks come to live in the Big House, the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden, so food will be more plentiful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=110589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=29581 A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251585 Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138427 A legendary adventure story of how Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a Polynesian race who worship courage, conquers his fear of the sea and proves he isnt a coward. Mafatus story has a strength and simplicity that appeal to a wide range in age, and it is beautifully told.--New York Times Book Review. Newbery Medal; ALA Notable Childrens Book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=2644 A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boys memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=247081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=69599 Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous fathers shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179231 The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the birds courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138440 A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=82308 John Newbery medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 1951. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138451 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233389 Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251971 This Newbery Medal winner is a timeless classic about a very special doll of great charm and character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33173 A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.