Turnage, Sheila.
Summary: Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TURVan Name, Sarah
Summary: In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VANBaldwin, Cindy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BALBrown, India Hill
Summary: When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BrownLollar, Phil
Summary: "This Odyssey book series explores the history of the much-loved character John Avery Whittaker. The series introduces newcomers to the larger world of Odyssey. For readers who are already Odyssey-philes, the novels provide the history of the franchise's most important character. Whit and his family (father, Harold; stepmother, Fiona; half-sister, Charlie) have just moved to Provenance, NC, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOLCochran, John
Summary: Seventh-grader Reese struggles to cope with his dad's opioid addiction but finds solace in two new friends who are also dealing with issues beyond their control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHAO'Connor, Barbara.
Summary: Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC OCoWright, Barbara
Summary: In 1898, Moses Thomas's summer vacation does not go exactly as planned as he contends with family problems and the ever-changing alliances among his friends at the same time as he is exposed to the escalating tension between the African-American and white communities of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC WRITyndall, Nita
Summary: "Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek. Sid knows their dad didn't do it--this time. He's currently serving a life sentence for the five girls he murdered ten years ago. Girls whose bodies he dumped into the lake. The same lake where June Hargrove was just found. And while Sid's dad couldn't have done it, suspicion is now directed at Sid. The only person who doesn't suspect Sid is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TYNHicks, Deron R.
Summary: It's 1942, and the United States is at war. Henry Hamilton is an inquisitive twelve-year-old who dreams of being a reporter. Pursuing a story for his school newspaper, Henry's investigation soon leads to a mysterious room inside his town's famous Biltmore Mansion. The mystery only grows deeper when he uncovers the secret of the room's contents. As Henry pursues the story, hoping for his first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICBeatty, Robert
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sylvia Doe keeps running away from foster homes to return to the mountains of North Carolina, until a 100-year flood, a strange boy, and a cave that is a portal to other times and places, bring her back where she truly belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion
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Summary: In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HarveyPyron, Bobbie.
Summary: After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie Tam overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PYRRand, Johnathan.
Summary: "When Hunter is awakened in the night by a large insect on his window screen, he's fascinated...at first. He's never seen a beetle so big. However, it flies away before he has a chanced to get a good look at it. The very next day, Hunter's friend, Lindsay, has also had an experience with one of these large insects...and she's caught it in a shoebox! Unfortunately, it's chewed its way through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audiocraft Publishing, Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RANArnold, Dave
Summary: "It's one challenge after another for 10-year-old John Avery Whittaker! He tinkers with electronics, takes on the lead in the school Christmas play, and comes up against a new bully, all while continuing to investigate the mysterious properties of the cloth from his grandfather's trunk - if he can find it! It's missing! Meanwhile, strangers have come to Provenance and they're askings lots of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Young Whit & the shroud of secrecy concerns a coffin previously hidden under the floor in an old, supposedly haunted mansion and the meaning behind an old journal bequeathed to Johnny by his grandfather."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2019
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Summary: Penny Rooney is stumped when she's given the assignment to write a poem about herself. She thinks of herself as half of a whole with her best friend, Cricket--until shes blindsided by the news that Crickets family is moving away in a matter of weeks. Then Penny and her sister see something impossible in the creek behind their house: a dolphin. Penny feels an immediate connection with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEAWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEAHitchcock, Shannon
Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HITDraper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Draper 2015Summary: Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LASPryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022