Frank Carlson Library

Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...

Allie Velasco wants to be a trailblazer. A trendsetter. A winner. No better feeling exists in the world than stepping to the top of a winner's podium and hoisting a trophy high in the air. At least, that's what Allie thinks . . . she's never actually won anything before. Everyone in her family is special in some way-her younger sister is a rising TV star; her brother is a soccer prodigy; her great-grandfather is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. With...

"Una ni�na visita a su bisabuelo y elige una caja de puros que atesora en su interior un mont�on de cajas de f�osfotos. Dentro de cada caja hay un recuerdo: un hueso de aceituna, una chapa de botella-- Todas estas cosas nos narran el viaje de su bisabuelo desde Italia y sus primeros a�nos en Am�erica"--P. [4] of cover.