Listed below are all the book sets held by all 6 of the Nebraska Regional Library Systems.
- ELS – Eastern Library System
- MLS – Meridian Library System
- NELS – Northeast Library System
- PLS – Panhandle Library System
- RVLS – Republican Valley Library System
- SELS – Southeast Library System
If you find a book set you would like to borrow, please contact the system that owns that book set. Contact information is provided at the end of the book list.
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A
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie – ELS (10 copies) & SELS (10 copies)
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson – SELS (10 copies)
- Amazing Tales of the Old West by Jeff O’Donnell – PLS (17 copies)
- Anna’s Blizzard by Allison Hart – NELS (20 copies)
- As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway – ELS
B
- A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence – NELS (24 copies)
- Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt – MLS (20 copies)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan – SELS (15 copies)
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya – NELS (12 copies)
- Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits – SELS (15 copies)
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusack – RVLS (23 copies + 1 CD), NELS (20 copies), MLS (20 copies), SELS (24 copies), PLS & ELS
- Braided Lives: an anthology of multicultural American writings – PLS
- Breaking Point by Alex Flinn – ELS
- The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson – MLS (14 copies)
- The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz – MLS (16 copies)
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins – ELS
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson – MLS (15 copies)
- City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau – RVLS (20 copies + 1 CD) & ELS
- Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper – SELS (15 copies)
- Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata – RVLS (20 copies)
- Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz – NELS (30 copies), RVLS (18 copies), SELS (11 copies) & PLS (19 copies)
- Crispin by Avi – PLS
- Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs – ELS, NELS (20 copies)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon – ELS
- Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris – NELS (5 copies)
- Deadline by Chris Crutcher – NELS (18 copies)
- Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede – MLS (20 copies)
- Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney – NELS (15 copies)
- Divergent by Veronica Roth – NELS (12 copies)
- Downsiders by Neal Shusterman – ELS
- Dread Locks: Dark Fusion #1 by Neal Shusterman – ELS
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordon Sonnenblick – ELS
- Eagle Blue by Michael D’orso – RVLS (20 copies)
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer – ELS (20 copies)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery – NELS (8 copies)
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis – RVLS (20 copies + 1 CD) & NELS (20 copies)
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine – MLS (15 Copies)
- Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman – RVLS (20 copies)
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan – RVLS (20 copies + 1 CD) & PLS
- Everlost by Neal Shusterman – ELS, MLS (15 copies), RVLS (15 copies)
- Exoduster: Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction by Neil Irvin Painter – PLS
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – NELS (25 copies)
- The Falconer’s Knot by Mary Hoffman – NELS (20 copies)
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson – NELS (20 copies)
- Fools Crow by James Welch – PLS (7 copies)
- Friends at Midnight by Caroline B. Cooney – PLS
- Frindle by Andrew Clements – PLS
- Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman – ELS, MLS (15 copies), SELS (15 copies) & NELS (15 copies)
- A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer – ELS
- The Giver by Lois Lowry – PLS
- Going Bovine by Libba Bray – ELS
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman – PLS
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore – 20 copies – ELS
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – NELS (12 copies)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – ELS
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – SELS (9 copies)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – NELS (7 copies)
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages – PLS, ELS, NELS (15 copies), RVLS (14 copies), MLS (10 copies) & SELS (14 copies)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer – MLS (10 copies)
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen – MLS (20 copies)
- Hate List by Jennifer Brown – ELS
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson – RVLS (19 copies + 1 CD)
- Heat by Mike Lupica – SELS (15 copies + 1 CD), RVLS (20 copies) & PLS
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett – NELS (12 copies)
- Holes by Louis Sachar – RVLS (18 copies)
- The Home Place by Wright Morris – MLS (17 copies), NELS (12 copies), PLS (15 copies), RVLS (11 copies) & SELS (12 copies)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – ELS, NELS (12 copies), MLS (10 copies)
- Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez – NELS (16 copies)
- Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby – SELS (15 copies)
- I Am A Man by Joe Starita – ELS (10 copies), SELS (10 copies), NELS (12 copies), RVLS (10 copies), MLS (10 copies) & PLS
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson – ELS
- I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak – ELS
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – NELS (8 copies)
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman – ELS
- Impossible by Nancy Werlin – SELS (10 copies)
- In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker – PLS (16 copies)
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke – MLS (15 copies)
- Invisible by Pete Hautman – ELS
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl – PLS
- Jazz by Walter Dean Myers – RVLS (21 copies + 1 CD)
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos – MLS (20 copies)
- The Landry News by Andrew Clements – MLS (20 copies)
- A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich – PLS, MLS (10 copies), NELS (19 copies), RVLS (19 copies) & SELS (19 copies)
- The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett – MLS (10 copies), NELS (10 copies), ELS (10 copies), PLS (10 copies), RVLS (10 copies) & SELS (10 copies)
- Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen – NELS (20 copies)
- Life And Death In Shanghai by Nien Cheng – MLS (9 copies)
- Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer – ELS & PLS
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan – ELS & MLS (20 copies)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – MLS (16 copies)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow – SELS (10 copies)
- Local Wonders by Ted Kooser – ELS (10 copies), MLS (10 copies), NELS (13 copies), PLS (10 copies), RVLS (18 copies) & SELS (10 copies)
- Looking for Alaska by John Green – ELS
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton – PLS
- Lost in Translation: a life in a new language by Eva Hoffman – NELS (12 copies)
- Luck by Jean Craighead George – NELS (20 copies)
- Lush by Natasha Friend – PLS
M
- Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis – PLS (8 copies)
- Marley and Me by John Grogan – ELS (20 copies)
- Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer L Holm – NELS (20 copies)
- The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman – ELS
- Morgan’s Run by Colleen McCullough – MLS (10 copies)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather – MLS (17 copies) & NELS (12 copies + VHS movie)
- My Daniel by Pam Conrad – MLS (20 copies)
- My Dog May Be a Genius (poetry) by Jack Prelutsky – RVLS (20 copies)
N
- The Names by N. Scott Momaday – NELS (16 copies)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – MLS (20 copies)
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer – ELS
- No-No Boys by John Okada – PLS (15 copies)
- Nobody’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner – SELS (15 copies)
O
- O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather – RVLS (15 copies)
- Old Jules by Mari Sandoz – NELS (14 copies)
- Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene – NELS (15 copies)
- One False Move by Alex Kava – NELS (10 copies), MLS (20 copies), RVLS (12 copies) & SELS (10 copies)
- Our White House: Looking In Looking Out by 108 Renowned Authors and Illustrators – SELS (10 copies)
P
- Peak by Roland Smith – MLS (20 copies)
- Peeps by Scott Westerfeld – MLS (20 copies)
- A Perfect Snow by Nora Martin – ELS
- Perfect by Natasha Friend – PLS
- Persepolis (graphic novel) by Marjane Satrapi – SELS (15 copies)
- Petey by Ben Mikaelson – NELS (20 copies) & ELS
- Pretties by Scott Westerfeld – ELS
- Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan – SELS (15 copies)
- Punished by David Lubar – MLS (20 copies)
R
- Red Cell by John Kalkowski – NELS, ELS, SELS, RVLS, PLS & MLS (15 copies)
- Red Glass by Laura Resau – NELS (15 copies)
- Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise – MLS (20 copies)
- Re-Gifters (graphic novel) by Mike Carey – RVLS (20 copies)
- Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Michaelsen – MLS (15 copies), RVLS (15 copies), NELS (14 copies), ELS (15 copies), SELS (15 copies) & PLS (15 copies)
- Restoring the Burnt Child by William Kloefkorn – NELS (10 copies), MLS (10 copies), RVLS (11 copies), PLS (10 copies) & SELS (10 copies)
- Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan – NELS (22 copies)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor – PLS
- Room One by Andrew Clements – NELS (21 copies)
- Rules by Cynthia Lord – MLS (20 copies) & RVLS (20 copies)
- Runner by Carl Deuker – ELS
- Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix – MLS (10 copies)
- Rhymes with Witches by Lauren Myracle – ELS
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay – MLS (10 copies)
- Saving Cee-Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman– MLS (7 copies)
- Savvy by Ingrid Law – NELS (12 copies)
- Say Goodbye by Laurie Halse Anderson – ELS
- The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman – ELS (20 copies), MLS (12 copies), NELS (15 copies), RVLS (15 copies) & SELS (15 copies)
- Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan – NELS (20 copies + 1 CD)
- The Shadow Club by Neal Shusterman – PLS
- Shattering Glass by Gail Giles – ELS & PLS
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – MLS (19 copies)
- Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies by Roger Welsch – MLS (35 copies)
- The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher – ELS & SELS (15 copies)
- Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar – ELS & RVLS (20 copies)
- So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld – ELS
- Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter – NELS (10 copies)
- Specials by Scott Westerfeld – ELS
- Spy X Tunnel Vision by Peter Lerangis – ELS
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach – ELS & SELS (15 copies + 1 CD)
- Stranded by Ben Mikaelsen – RVLS (16 copies)
- Stuck in Neutral by Terry Truman – SELS (10 copies)
- The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen – MLS (8 copies)
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins – SELS (9 copies)
- The Taker by J.M. Steele – SELS (15 copies)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston – NELS (12 copies)
- Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter – ELS (20 copies)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – NELS (12 copies)
- Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan – MLS (20 copies)
- Tornado! by Betsy Byars – NELS (25 copies)
- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen – MLS (20 copies) & RVLS (17 copies)
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt – MLS (15 copies)
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – ELS
- Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson – ELS
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld – ELS & SELS (15 copies)
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman – MLS (16 copies), PLS (20 copies), RVLS (12 copies), SELS (14 copies), ELS (20 copies) & NELS (12 copies)
- The Usual Mistakes by Erin Flanagan – RVLS (15 copies)
W
- The Wedding by Dorothy West – PLS (17 copies)
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt – NELS (12 copies)
- What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell – SELS (10 copies)
- The White Darkness by Geraldine Mccaughrean – NELS (12 copies)
- White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp – MLS (20 copies) & RVLS (9 copies)
Y
- Yellow Flag by Robert Lipsyte – NELS (19 copies)
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To borrow any of the above titles, contact System offices as below:
Eastern Library System (ELS)
Kathy Tooker, Director
E-mail: ktooker@windstream.net
11929 Elm Street, Suite 18
Omaha, NE 68144
PH: 402-330-7884 or 800-627-7884
Assistant: Nancy Meyer
Meridian Library System (MLS)
Sharon Osenga, Director
E-mail: sosenga@frontiernet.net
816 East 25th Street, Suite 7
Kearney, NE 68847
PH: 308-234-2087 or 800-657-2192
Assistant: Delilah Gillming
Northeast Library System (NELS)
Jessica Chamberlain, Director
E-mail: jchamberlain.nels@gmail.com
3038 33rd Avenue, Suite 13
Columbus, NE 68601-2334
PH: 402-564-1586 or 800-578-1014
Assistant: Shelia Cermak
Panhandle Library System (PLS)
115 Railway
Scottsbluff, NE 69361
PH: 308-632-1350 or 888-879-5303
Assistant: Debbie McCall
Republican Valley Library System (RVLS)
Denise Harders, Director
E-mail: rvlsadmin@inebraska.com
2727 West 2nd Street, Suite 233
Hastings, NE 68901
PH: 402-462-1975 or 800-569-4961
Assistant: Kay Kloppenborg
Southeast Library System (SELS)
Brenda Ealey, Director
E-mail: bsealey@windstream.net
5730 R Street, Suite C-1
Lincoln, NE 68505-2309
PH: 402-467-6188 or 800-288-6063
Assistant: Jennifer Barnason