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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First edition. | Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights | 171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Teen Nonfiction 1 available Y 791.43097 BRIMM |
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Recounts the 1947 government investigation into the motion picture industry by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
World War II is over, but tensions between the communist Soviet Union and the US are at an all-time high. In America, communist threats are seen everywhere and a committee is formed in the nation's capital to investigate those threats. Larry Dane Brimner follows the story of 19 men--all from the film industry--who are summoned...
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Central - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF NESBE
Shirlington - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF NESBE
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Candlewick Press | 385 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NESBE Shirlington - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NESBE |
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2016 | OverDrive | Candlewick Press | English | Available Online
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"Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing...
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Bolshoi saga volume 1
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2013. | Soho Teen | 264 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KIEM |
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2013 | OverDrive | Soho Press | English | Available Online
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After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust.
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2021. | First edition. | Roaring Brook Press | 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
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Balloonmakers volume 1
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2017. | Albert Whitman & Company | 277 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Recently Returned 1 available Y/SF LOCKE |
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2017 | OverDrive | Albert Whitman & Company | English | Available Online
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"When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall-but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything-including her...
6) Going over
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[2014] | Chronicle Books | 262 pages : map ; 22 cm | English | Available
Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KEPHA |
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In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
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[2018] | Annick Press | 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF BARKE |
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Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite....
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2022. | Philomel Books | ix, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm | English |
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8 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF NIELS
Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF NIELS
Westover - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF NIELS
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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©2015. | First edition. | Scholastic Press | 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NIELS Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NIELS Westover - Kids Fiction 1 available JF NIELS |
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Scholastic Inc | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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.
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Columbia Pike - Teen Graphic Novels 1 available
Y/GRAPH B SCHWART S
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2015. | Graphic Universe | 112 pages : chiefly ; 23 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Teen Graphic Novels 1 available Y/GRAPH B SCHWART S |
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"Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his parents experienced harassment by the Stasi and a lack of understanding from members of their own family. This striking graphic novel memoir chronicles the family's difficult journey to get to the other side of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher.
11) Rose sees red
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2010. | First edition. | Scholastic Press | 197 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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In the 1980s, two teenaged ballet dancers--one American, one Russian--spend an unforgettable night in New York City, forming a lasting friendship despite their cultural and political differences.
12) Sekret
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Sekret volume 1
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©2014. | First edition. | Roaring Brook Press | 345 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF SMITH |
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Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.
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2019. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English |
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"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
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Central - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF KRAME
Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available
JF KRAME
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[2019] | First edition. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 378 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Fiction 1 available JF KRAME Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction 1 available JF KRAME |
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In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.
15) Suspect red
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2017. | First edition. | Disney-Hyperion | 291 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF ELLIO |
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In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.
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2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf Books | 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English |
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In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph McCarthy and his war hearings lured many Americans to the ideals...
17) Walls
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | Algonquin | 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English |
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In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
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[2009] | First edition. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF KIDD |
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In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the body snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set.