This Blessed Earth by Ten Genoways is about a fifth-generation family farm in Nebraska. For forty years, Rick Hammond has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation farm. As he starts to hand off the farm to his daughter, they’re confronted by rising corporate ownership, encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, and more. This book follows the Hammonds from harvest to harvest as a portrait of one family’s struggle to hold on to their legacy.
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A new school story by the beloved author of Frindle! Sixth grader Alec loves to read! (Don’t we all?!) But when his school principal tells him to start paying attention in class — and to stop reading — Alec knows he has to take matters in his own hands. In order to not lose all of his reading time, he starts a club where he’s the only member. But things get tricky when people start to join! Are the kids joining the club more interesting than the characters in his book? Find out in this middle grade novel!
No one enjoys statewide assessment tests, not even the teachers! The pressures of sixth-grade are bad enough without the extra pressure of doing well on an important test. Follow Mrs. Woods’ sixth-grade class as they scheme their way into acing their test! This scheme brings together the most unlikely of characters: Randi, the top gymnast; Gavin, the football jock; Trevor, who hates being home more than he hates being at school; Scott, the big-brain with a huge heart; and Natalie, the know-it-all lawyer. Can this group band together for the right reasons? Can the whole school get a perfect score? Find out in this middle grade adventure!
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We have two video sessions scheduled with Sam Shaw at the Nebraska Library Commission to do some hands-on online training about Bibliostat Data Collection. These sessions are available for CE.
14 January 2019 : 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Topics will include: Section Collections, Financial, and other services. Be sure to sign up at http://bit.ly/BiblioTraining. Once you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email with additional information about logging into the session.
17 January 2019 : 10:00 am – Noon. Topics will include: Technology and Staffing Wrap Up. Be sure to sign up at http://bit.ly/BiblioTraining. Once you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email with additional information about logging into the session.
Start at the beginning with this first installment of a new trilogy about a New York City teenager. Ryan Quinn is excited to settle down for awhile after spending his entire childhood traveling with his father, a United Nations worker. The catch, of course, is that Ryan’s parents disappear shortly after getting to New York. As Ryan investigates into their disappearances, he uncovers the true lives of his parents, who are part of an underground organization that handles dangerous rescue missions. Following in his parents footsteps, he dives into an international rescue mission for freedom.
Welcome to World War II, a dark and dangerous time in Amsterdam in 1943. Hanneke, a young woman growing up in desperate times, spends her time finding scarce items to sell on the black market. Until one of the items Hanneke has to find is a Jewish teenager who vanished from a secret room in the safety of a woman’s home. This mystery leads Hanneke to another after another as she finds out the horrors of the Nazi war machine and is moved to the heart of the resistance.
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Ever wanted to be part of an elite, government-funded boarding school? So does sixteen year old Nadia Riley! Excited to be part of a covert CIA Black-Ops program, Nadia travels to Desert Mountain Academy, only for rumors of a double agent on campus to bubble up, along with the assumption of the double agent being Nadia. Will Nadia survive the tough world of covert teen agents? Find out all the dark secrets in this young adult thriller!
This tearjerker follows a former foster kid, Ben Coffin, a big sci-fi reader who rescues a mutt from an alley. Thanks to the little pup Ben meets a fellow bibliophile, Halley, who he nicknames Rainbow Girl. As the two decide to write a novel together, Ben’s life starts unraveling at the seams. Read how Ben finds the truth about friendship and the meaning of home in this middle grade novel.
Want to see a list of all the Golden Sower Nominee titles we have to offer? Check out the Golden Sower Nominee tag!
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