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Star rating for All American boys
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Star rating for All American Boys
Publisher:
K-Tel
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Star rating for All American boys
Publisher:
Praeger
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
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Star rating for All-American boy
Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
c1995
Language:
English
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Star rating for All American Boy
Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
A gay man who fled his hometown in a cloud of scandal and guilt returns home to his estranged family-and the boy he left behind The first call is from Wally Day's estranged mother, begging him to come home. The second is from Sebastian Garafolo, a Brown's Mill cop Wally last spoke to when he confessed to having underage sex in the old apple orchard. Today, Garafolo is calling about something else entirely: Wally's cousin Kyle is missing. Twenty years...
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Star rating for Backlund
Publisher:
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
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Star rating for Music Video Hits, Vol. 1
Publisher:
BYU Records
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Star rating for Magic: Disney Through Time
Publisher:
BYU Records
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Star rating for William Hall Master Chorale: Ceremony and Carols
Publisher:
Klavier
Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
English
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Star rating for The best American science fiction & fantasy 2022
Language:
English
Description:
Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Rich Larson.
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Star rating for The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Star rating for Demon Copperhead
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Star rating for The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
This grand old childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with humor and wisdom that appeal to readers of every age. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court.
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Star rating for The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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Star rating for This tender land
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"-- 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
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Star rating for The great Gatsby
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of literature’s most beloved stories and the inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover and interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to...
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Star rating for The anxious generation
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"From New York Times bestselling co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health - and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

18. Smile

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Star rating for Smile
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...
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Star rating for Little women
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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Star rating for The secret garden
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...