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The little bugler : the true story of a twelve-year-old boy in the Civil War / by Styple, William B.(CARDINAL)775785;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-181).
Subjects: Biographies.; Schurmann, Gustav Albert, 1849-1905.; Lincoln, Thomas, 1853-1871; United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1865); Child musicians;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Whipping boy [sound recording] the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully / by Kurzweil, Allen,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)363338; Blackstone Audio, Inc.(CARDINAL)346395; Harper Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539013;
Read by the author.Abused as a ten-year-old at a prestigious English boarding school nestled in the Swiss Alps, Allen Kurzweil, author of the acclaimed bestseller A Case of Curiosities, takes the reader around the world--from the Vienna Woods to the slums of Manila to the boardroom of the world's largest law firm high above New York City--to locate and confront his long-lost tormentor, a twelve-year-old named Cesar Augustus who tied him up and whipped him to the strains of Jesus Christ Superstar. What begins as an anxiety-fueled quest for revenge takes an elaborate detour when the author discovers that Cesar has recently been released from federal prison for his role in a byzantine scheme perpetrated by a felonious duke, a Congolese king, a fugitive prince who traces his roots back to Vlad the Impaler, and a spats-wearing baron born in Toledo, Ohio.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Kurzweil, Allen.; Authors, American; Bullying;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The flint heart : a fairy story, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts's 1910 fantasy / by Paterson, Katherine,author.(CARDINAL)350478; Paterson, John(John Barstow),aut.(CARDINAL)751545; Paterson, John(John Barstow)(CARDINAL)751545; Paterson, Katherine.(CARDINAL)350478; Phillpotts, Eden,1862-1960.(CARDINAL)709879; Phillpotts, Eden,1862-1960.Flint heart.; Rocco, John,illustrator.(CARDINAL)356271; Rocco, John.(CARDINAL)356271;
Long ago, in the land of Dartmoor, a magic man created an enchanted charm that granted its possessor incredible power -- at the cost of the wearer's own tenderness and compassion. After the merciless Flint Heart causes much destruction, it is lost among the reeds and rocks of the moor, where a kindly farmer discovers it thousands of years later. With the Flint Heart in his possession, the once adoring father Billy Jago is transformed into a cruel and merciless brute. Young Charles is determined to win back his father's true nature, and with his sister Unity and dog, Ship, he sets off into an enchanted world where animals talk, fairies hold elaborate banquets, and magical mischief must be resolved to bring Dartmoor and Merripit Farm back to rights again.1030LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Adventure stories, American.; Fantasy fiction, American.; Fairy tales.; Fantasy fiction.; Amulets; Amulets; Fairies; Fairies; Fathers and sons; Talismans; Twelve-year-old boys;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Whipping boy : the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully / by Kurzweil, Allen.(CARDINAL)363338;
"From the acclaimed author of A CASE OF CURIOSITIES, Allen Kurzweil's stranger-than-fiction "investigative memoir", detailing his 40-year-search for his boarding school bully who tied him up at the age of twelve and whipped him to the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar, and who went on to lead a mad-cap life of international crime and financial fraud"--"The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world's largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California. While hunting down his tormentor, Kurzweil encounters an improbable cast of characters that includes an elocution teacher with ill-fitting dentures, a gang of faux royal swindlers, a crime investigator "with paper in his blood," and a onocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweil's riveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the "parallel lives" of a victim and his abuser. A scrupulously researched work of nonfiction that renders a childhood menace into an unlikely muse, Whipping Boy is much more than a tale of karmic retribution; it is a poignant meditation on loss, memory, and mourning, a surreal odyssey born out of suffering, nourished by rancor, tempered by wit, and resolved, unexpectedly, in a breathtaking act of personal courage. Whipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Kurzweil, Allen.; Authors, American; Bullying; Bullying.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Safe at home : a Comeback Kids novel / by Lupica, Mike,author.(CARDINAL)354706;
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.960LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Baseball stories.; Self-confidence; Teamwork (Sports); Schools; Orphans; Adoption; Twelve-year-old boys; Seventh-grade boys; Baseball players; Sports stories.; Realistic fiction;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 13
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Enchanted glass [sound recording] / by Jones, Diana Wynne.(CARDINAL)312356; Crossley, Steven,narrator.(CARDINAL)355299; Recorded Books, LLC.(CARDINAL)561790; Crossley, Steven.(CARDINAL)355299;
Read by Steven Crossley.After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.For ages 12 and up.Compact disc.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Young adult fiction.; Audiobooks.; Magic; Orphans; Villages; Glass; Boys; Villages; Fantasy fiction; Magic; Orphans; Boy orphans; Glass; Protectiveness; Imaginary creatures; Twelve-year-old boys; Boys; Villages; Fantasy fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The best bad luck I ever had / by Levine, Kristin(Kristin Sims),1974-(CARDINAL)491423;
In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.680LAccelerated Reader ARLexile
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Race relations; Prejudices; Friendship; Country life; Families; Bildungsromans; Historical fiction; Twelve-year-old boys; Interracial friendship; Coming of age; Friendships.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The potato chip puzzles / by Berlin, Eric.(CARDINAL)387906; Damkoehler, Katrina,illustrator.(CARDINAL)499042;
Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest to win fifty-thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.650LAccelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection
Subjects: Cryptologic fiction.; Novels.; Cheating in contests; Codes (Communication); Contests; Cooperation in boys; Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery stories; Friendship; Mathematics teachers; Middle school students; Middle schools; Puzzles; Twelve-year-old boy; Friendships.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The boy from the basement / by Shaw, Susan,1951-(CARDINAL)488780;
A twelve-year-old boy is confined to his basement without food or clothing.470LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Child abuse; Foster home care;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 12
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Lizard tails and cactus spines / by Brenner, Barbara.(CARDINAL)140689; Keasey, Merritt S.(CARDINAL)819132;
Bibliography: pages 79-81.A twelve-year-old boy explores the desert of Arizona where he tracks lizards.
Subjects: Desert biology; Desert biology; Lizards; Lizards;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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