Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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Leroy Ninker saddles up

By DiCamillo, Kate

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Forging an instant bond with spaghetti-loving horse Maybelline, horseless cowboy Leroy Ninker inadvertently risks eternal loneliness when he forgets a vital third rule about Maybelline's care.

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Mikis and the donkey

By Dumon Tak, Bibi

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

After his grandfather presents him with a donkey, Mikis falls in love with the creature, but his grandparents tell him that the donkey is a working animal, not a pet. However, they let Mikis choose her name -- Tsaki -- and allow them to spend Sundays together. Eventually, both Mikis and his grandfather learn what it means to care for another creature.

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The world within: a novel of Emily Brontë

By Eagland, Jane

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Fourteen-year-old Emily would rather spend her days dreaming of adventures and wandering the moors, but when her father falls sick, and her sister Charlotte is sent away to school reality comes crashing in.

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The cat at the wall

By Ellis, Deborah

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards. Should she help him? After all, she's just a cat. Or is she? She was once a regular North American girl, but that was before she died and came back to life as a cat. When the little boy is discovered, the soldiers don't know what to do with him. It is not long before his teacher and classmates come looking for him, and the house is suddenly surrounded by Palestinian villagers throwing rocks, and the sound of Israeli tanks approaching. As the soldiers begin to panic and disaster seems certain, the cat knows that it is up to her to diffuse the situation. But what can a cat do? What can any one creature do?

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Princess Academy: the forgotten sisters

By Hale, Shannon

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Miri is eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.

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Listen, slowly

By Lai, Thanhha

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.

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Rescue on the Oregon trail

By Messner, Kate

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.

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Half a man

By Morpurgo, Michael

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Follows the experiences of a young man who after years of being told not to ask his World War II veteran grandfather about his injuries learns how his grandfather survived a torpedo attack on his ship.

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Oliver and the seawigs

By Reeve, Philip

Publishing Date: [2014]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"When Oliver's explorer parents go missing, he sets sail on the rescue mission with some new, unexpected friends"--

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Cartwheeling in thunderstorms

By Rundell, Katherine

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"Will must find her way after she's plucked out of a wonderful life in Zimbabwe and forced to go to boarding school in England"--Provided by publisher.

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It's only Stanley

By Agee, Jon

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: E

Call Number: E

Very strange noises that keep awakening the Wimbledon family one night have an even stranger source.

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I don't like Koala

By Ferrell, Sean

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: E

Call Number: E

Adam doesn't like his stuffed koala because of its terrible eyes, terrible face, and terrible paws, but each time he tries to get rid of it, Koala comes back until Adam realizes that Koala is on his side.

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Any questions

By Gay, Marie-Louise

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: E

Call Number: E

Answers many of the questions the author receives from children on writing, including where she gets her ideas, how she learned to draw, and how many books she can write in one day.

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Once upon an alphabet

By Jeffers, Oliver

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: E

Call Number: E

"From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet"--

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Strongheart: the world's first movie star dog

By McCully, Emily Arnold

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: E

Call Number: E

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

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Fox's garden

By Princesse Camcam

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: E

Call Number: E

An act of tender compassion is given (and repaid) in secret during an icy winter night.

No sword fighting in the house

By Hill, Susanna Leonard

Publishing Date: c2007

Classification: RDR

Call Number: RDR

While jousting on cows in the backyard, Art and Lance flatten their mother's daffodils just before the big daffodil contest.

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City of heavenly fire

By Clare, Cassandra

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

"Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian--but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance.."--

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The maze runner

By Dashner, James

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

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The scorch trials

By Dashner, James

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: YA

Call Number: YA

After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.

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