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21) Lovely war
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Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION BERRY 2019
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YA FICTION BERRY 2019
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A sweeping, multi-layered romance with a divine twist, by the Printz Honor-winning author of The Passion of Dolssa, set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II. New York City, 1942. World War II is at its zenith. A stunningly attractive couple meets in a Manhattan hotel room for a forbidden tryst. But these are no ordinary lovers. When immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught by the latter's jealous husband, the goddess of passion must justify...
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCQUER 2019
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YA FICTION MCQUER 2019
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A tale told in dual narratives during the 1918 flu epidemic in New York and in 1955 San Jose explores the nature of family secrets and the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, as a 14-year-old girl becomes increasingly concerned about her writer mother's advancing depression.
23) A night divided
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Duncan/Traner Community Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
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J FICTION NIELSE 2015
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Gerlach Community Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
Sierra View Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Children's Fiction
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
J FICTION NIELSE 2015
1 available
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When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
24) Revolution
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION DONNEL 2010
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YA FICTION DONNEL 2010
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An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
25) Rose under fire
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Code name Verity volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
YA FICTION WEIN 2014
1 available
YA FICTION WEIN 2014
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION WEIN 2013
1 available
YA FICTION WEIN 2013
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Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION WEIN 2013
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YA FICTION WEIN 2013
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When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbr�uck, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
"Don't miss Elizabeth Wein's stunning new novel, Stateless While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück,...
26) Out of darkness
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PEREZ 2015
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YA FICTION PEREZ 2015
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PEREZ 2019
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YA FICTION PEREZ 2019
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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION PEREZ 2019
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YA FICTION PEREZ 2019
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Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines...
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
YA FICTION YOLEN
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YA FICTION YOLEN
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION YOLEN 2018
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YA FICTION YOLEN 2018
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything but each other. It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems...
28) Flygirl
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SMI 2008
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YA FICTION SMI 2008
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During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Front lines (Michael Grant) volume 3
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION GRANT 2018
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YA FICTION GRANT 2018
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New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes the gritty and powerful conclusion to the Front Line series and evokes the brutal truth of World War II: War is hell. An epic tale of historical reimagining, perfect for fans of Code Name Verity and Salt to the Sea. Courage, sacrifice, and fear have lead Rio, Frangie, and Rainy through front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and thousands...
30) three day summer
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31) Fever, 1793
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Gerlach Community Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ANDERS 2000
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YA FICTION ANDERS 2000
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION ANDERS 2000
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YA FICTION ANDERS 2000
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In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
32) The black kids
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HAMMON 2020
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YA FICTION HAMMON 2020
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Sparks Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HAMMON 2020
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YA FICTION HAMMON 2020
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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Sierra View Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION RIN 2007
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J FICTION RIN 2007
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Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
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Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HONEYM 2013
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YA FICTION HONEYM 2013
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When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
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YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
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South Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
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YA FICTION SEPETY 2011
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
36) The war outside
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION HESSE 2018
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YA FICTION HESSE 2018
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It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
1 available
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
1 available
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
1 available
YA FICTION SEPETY 2019
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Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA LP FICTION SEPETY 2019
1 available
YA LP FICTION SEPETY 2019
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Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA LP FICTION SEPETY 2019
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YA LP FICTION SEPETY 2019
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At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEVAL 1999
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FICTION CHEVAL 1999
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CHE 2000 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION CHE 2000 UNABRIDGED
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Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
39) chains
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LARSON 2013
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J FICTION LARSON 2013
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North Valleys Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION LARSON 2013 UNABRIDGED
1 available
J CD FICTION LARSON 2013 UNABRIDGED
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Sparks Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION LARSON 2013 UNABRIDGED
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J CD FICTION LARSON 2013 UNABRIDGED
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In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.