MJ Auch
2) Guitar Boy
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Travis Tacey is in a peck of trouble. His mother is hospitalized from a serious accident and his father, lost in a haze of grief, has focused his anger and guilt on his oldest son. Which is why, at age fourteen, Travis finds himself out of a home and on the road in New York State's Adirondack Mountains.
With no more than a few dollars, a change of clothes, and his great-great-great grandfather's guitar, Travis wonders how he is going to survive. But...
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The honest and compelling story of a young girl's newfound independence, from her entrance into a new country to her frightening involvement in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.
My heart filled with fear and hope at the same time. I had the feeling that I was brought to America for a purpose. Something important would happen to me here.
I remembered the words of the poem, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . ."
"Here...
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K-10 likes to tell himself that he's a free and independent dog. But as his adventures bring him into contact with tiny but big-hearted (and hilarious) Peppy, wise old Tucker, and tart-tongued Pearl, he begins to wonder if he might want to have a home after all. Filled with loveable canine characters, this ALA Notable Recording is both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching.