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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BARNES, J.
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TEEN FICTION BARNES, J.
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When a little girl is lost in a 750,000-acre national park, a family of search-and-rescue professionals reunites and three generations of secrets are uncovered.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION GREENWOOD, A.
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TEEN FICTION GREENWOOD, A.
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In the near future, the few surviving dogs are studied in a sanctuary, Dog Island, where seventeen-year-old Nano Miller tests robotic dogs, seeks her missing brother, and experiences her first romance.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING HADDON, M.
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TEEN SUMMER READING HADDON, M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION HADDON, M.
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CD FICTION HADDON, M.
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION KORNER, M.
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J FICTION KORNER, M.
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"Coming-of-age adventure story set in the North featuring a strong female lead, her Indigenous friend, and a cast of diverse dogs all in training for the daring Arctic Quest dog-sledding competition."--
5) Again again
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LOCKHART, E.
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TEEN FICTION LOCKHART, E.
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After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, high school senior Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility. She will fall in and out of love a thousand times-- while finally confronting the secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind. If you could live your life again, what would you do differently? -- adapted from information provided and perusal...
6) Whippoorwill
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In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION PHILIPPE, B.
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TEEN FICTION PHILIPPE, B.
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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
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"Wake up. Wake up, Boy. I'm bored. Time passes slowly in here, just you and me. It must be lunchtime. He will let us out soon." A tale of two very different worlds, both shattered by the loss of loved ones. Tragic, comic and full of hope, thanks to a dog called Boy. The kennel has been JC's home ever since JC's new foster father locked them inside. As the hours and days pass, JC tells Boy about how he came to his country: his family, the orphanage...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SHORT STORIES TOGETHER
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TEEN FICTION SHORT STORIES TOGETHER
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A collection of original contemporary love stories set during life in lockdown by some of today's most popular YA authors.
A collection of teenage love stories set during life in lockdown during the COVID-19 epidemic. There's flirting and romance through window signs and over Skype and Zoom. There's a determined girl with a mask-making business, and two boys who meet through socially distant dog-walks. It's about finding love in unexpected place...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J DVD ART
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J DVD ART
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD ART
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DVD ART
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Based on the best-selling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life. The film follows Denny and the loves of his life, his wife, Eve,...
11) A dog's purpose
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J DVD DOG'S
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J DVD DOG'S
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD DOG'S
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DVD DOG'S
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It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Homework
JB RITLAND
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JB RITLAND
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 359.984 RIT
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TEEN 359.984 RIT
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"This special edition re-telling presents the dramatic tale of how Ritland discovered his passion and grew up to become the trainer of the nation's most elite military working dogs. Ritland was a smaller-than-average kid who was often picked-on at school--which led him to spend more time with dogs at a young age. After graduating BUD/S training--the toughest military training in the world--to become a SEAL, he was on combat deployment in Iraq when...
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"Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ARNOLD, D.
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TEEN FICTION ARNOLD, D.
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New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema;...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION FOREST, K.
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TEEN FICTION FOREST, K.
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When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast--two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers...