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OBD Funny Books - YOUTH
Summer Adventure - Juvenile Fiction June 2025
Winter Reading Getaway 25-26 (SCPL-YS)
Summer Adventure - Juvenile Fiction June 2025
Winter Reading Getaway 25-26 (SCPL-YS)
Description
Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman and her family.
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English
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2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
Back to School Month
Bluestem Award Nominees 2022
OBD Back To School - Youth
Back to School Month
Bluestem Award Nominees 2022
OBD Back To School - Youth
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
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Penderwicks series volume 3
Publication Date
[2011]
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English
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When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
4) Delirium
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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
6) Moo
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English
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Books Written in Verse (WPLD)
Feb24 4th/5th grade
OBD Books for Fourth and Fifth Grade - YOUTH
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Description
"When Reena, her little brother, Luke, and their parents first move to Maine, Reena doesn't know what to expect. She's ready for beaches, blueberries, and all the lobster she can eat. Instead, her parents 'volunteer' Reena and Luke to work for an eccentric neighbor named Mrs. Falala, who has a pig named Paulie, a cat named China, a snake named Edna-and that stubborn cow, Zora"-- Provided by publisher.
7) River magic
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When a temperamental thunder wizard moves in next door, Donna must figure out a way to save her riverside town-with the help of a quirky new friend and the mysterious, powerful creature lurking in the rapids"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kathy Dawson Books
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Middle School Books (teens) -- Full List
OBD Jane Austen Lovers - YOUTH
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
OBD Jane Austen Lovers - YOUTH
Teen Short Reads: Books 250 Pages or Less
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"Jane, a budding writer and Jane Austen fan, discovers the true secret to writing when a famous author and her cute, but annoying, son come to her small coastal town and play seemingly unwitting roles in affecting the custody battle between Jane's Hollywood mother and marine biologist father"-- Provided by publisher.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2014.
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English
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2011.
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English
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
12) Pie Girl
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Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2017.
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English
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Description
Piper Green looks forward to serving pie at Peek-A-Boo Island's annual potluck supper, but a food allergy upsets her plan.
13) Mistwalker
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Forbidden to set foot on her family's lobster boat after her brother's death, sixteen-year-old Willa will do anything to help her grieving, financially-troubled family, even turn to the weird Grey Man who haunts the lighthouse near her small Maine village.
14) Sanctuary
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her aunt, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to the old mansion on a remote island off the coast of Maine, ironically named Sanctuary, the place where her father and sister died, and from which her mother was committed to an insane asylum soon after--and it is also a place of dark secrets, haunted by the ghosts of its original owners, and inhabited by her vicious uncle.
Author
Series
Family tree volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
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Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.


