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Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
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"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...
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When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms...
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Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.
5) Worth
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After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
6) Elsie's bird
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Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
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1922. Wing walker Grace Lafferty is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team's worth against flashier competitors-- and earning a coveted Hollywood contract. Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of scars from the battlefield, joins her barnstorming team. With each new death-defying trick, he pushes Grace to consider her reasons for being a daredevil. After one of her risky maneuvers saves a pilot's life, a Hollywood studio offers...
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Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.
10) My Daniel
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Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
11) Prairie songs
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Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
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American chillers volume 36
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"When Kendra Delaney, Kiersten Cooper, and Bryson Hatfield are hiking along a trail through the forest near Aspen, Colorado, they make an odd discovery: two brothers have purchased an old farm and rundown farmhouse, with the intent to turn it into a thriving cricket farm. They find it strange that the men would choose Aspen, Colorado, to raise crickets. But the brothers are going to conduct a secret experiment to create special, hybrid crickets....
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La vida de Stella Gordon es una mentira. En tanto que testigo principal en el juicio contra un traficante de drogas, Stella está en el programa de protección de testigos y tiene que vivir en el pequeño pueblo de Thunder Basin, Nebraska, cuyos habitantes no deben saber, jamás, quién es en realidad. Ni siquiera Chet Falconer, el chico que hace que desee revelar su verdadera identidad. Stella sabe que si dice la verdad solo traerá violencia a ese...
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