Readers who love Leslie Connor and Ann M. Martin will adore this story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family—and weirdness—is relative. Summer Coding Camp Incoming 7th graders only Eight-week session begins...
Hippies
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Author:Little, Jody J.Summary: -
Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across...
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Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:The "summer of love" is a time of idealistic freedom and experimentation for Emma, her cousin Megan, and the young people of Pike Creek. While her brother Eric's band practices in what Uncle Pat has dubbed the Hippie House, the girls...
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Author:Didion, JoanSummary:The "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California,...
- Author:Meunier, SylvainSummary:
Jean-Benoît Bastarache est un jeune hippie qu'on initie progressivement au crime. D'abord envoûté par «Mamour», qui lui apprend les plaisirs de la chair, il se laisse ensuite entraîner dans le commerce illicite des stupéfiants. L'église...
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll....
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Author:Horvath, Polly, Blackall, SophieSummary:Shortlisted for the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and selected as an OLA Best Bet for 2012. Madeline's parents have gone missing. Her only clues? A note tacked on the fridge from someone called The Enemy, a file card covered in a...
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Author:Horvath, PollySummary:Literature’s most endearing rabbits are back in this sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire! While the Bunnys' human friend, Madeline, worries about saving money for college, Mrs. Bunny is more concerned about how to...
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Author:Kaiser, DavidSummary:Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and...
- Author:Schlanger, CarolSummary:
A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves to an off-the-grid commune in Oregon.
- Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary:
In 1970 the shabby members of a California commune pull up stakes and move to the harsh interior of Alaska. They establish Drop City, a back-to-the-land town, on a foundation of peace and free love. But their idealism cannot prevent...
- Author:Groff, LaurenSummary:
In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change...
