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Melanie Crowder
1) Jumper
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Accepted into the Forest Service's class of smokejumpers, nineteen-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.
3) Mazie
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaping at a chance for a Broadway audition, a teen from 1950s Nebraska endures brutal but thrilling auditions, before dwindling resources and a challenge to her personal beliefs force her to reevaluate her priorities.
Seventeen-year-old Mazie Butterfield leaves her family and boyfriend behind in small-town Nebraska to find fame on 1950s Broadway, but when her big break comes it means going back to the Corn Belt and facing her past.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.
5) Audacity
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother, before receiving unwelcome news.
8) Parched
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Antarctica's biting katabatic gusts to Hawai'i's sweet-smelling moani, discover fourteen winds of the world through poetry, scientific facts, and transporting illustrations."--Provided by publisher.
