Sweet, Melissa
Summary: Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephermera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and children's book author who loved words his whole life. This authorized tribute, a New York Times bestseller, includes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SWESummary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESee, Melissa.
Summary: Less than a year away from graduation, seventeen-year-old Joy is too busy overachieving to be worried about relationships. She's determined to be Caldwell Prep's first disabled valedictorian. And she only has one person to beat, her academic rival Nathaniel. But it's senior year and everyone seems to be obsessed with pairing up. One of her best friends may be developing feelings for her and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEESee, Melissa
Summary: Seventeen-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cellist with severe anxiety, plan to use the holiday concert to land a Julliard audition, but when they are chosen to play a duet, they worry their differences will sink their chances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEESummary: Follows the legendary adventures of a shipwrecked sailor among the tiny people of Lilliput. In this strange land, Gulliver brings peace to two feuding kingdoms and reunites a prince with his princess before returning to the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GULSummary: A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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Summary: Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ALEBest, Cari.
Summary: Jacob watches his favorite television show, "Baking with Chef Monty," and bakes a beautiful peach pie, which he gives to his parents for their anniversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Summary: A previously unpublished collection of lyrics for twelve lullabies, illustrated by contemporary, award-winning artists Jonathan Bean, Carin Berger, Sophie Blackall, Linda Bleck, Renata Liwska, Christopher Silas Neal, Zachariah Ohora, Eric Puybaret, Sean Qualls, Isabel Roxas, Melissa Sweet, and Dan Yaccarino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BROBryant, Jen
Summary: Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PIPFleming, Maria.
Summary: Children delight in jumping, leaping, crunching, stomping, and raking as leaves fall down on them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FleHowe, James
Summary: Although his best friend Rex is excited about going to camp, Pinky is afraid of leaving home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1992
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Summary: A baby bear dreams of all the wonderful things he will be able to do when he is grown, from staying up late to building a house in a honey tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONHowe, James
Summary: Seven-year-old Pinky, a confirmed dog lover, has a change of heart after his family's new pet kitten pounces on his foot in the middle of the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARMartin, David
Summary: Children celebrate Hanukkah with a new candle in the menorah and a new treat for every night. On board pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BOARD MARRyder, Joanne.
Summary: Rhyming text describes many different kinds of kisses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYDAppelt, Kathi
Summary: On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC APPELTBunting, Eve
Summary: When little brown puppy gives his mother a present, his friends decide to give their mamas presents too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel books, an imprint of Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD BUNCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Too shy to approach the girl he likes, Jackson hides little gifts for her to discover before Valentine's Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE CHOElliott, David
Summary: Baabwaa and William are friends, and together they decide to have an adventure of their own. After meeting a fierce wolf in sheep's wool they form an unusual friendship with the wolf, teaching him to read and knit. They also lose a little weight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ELLMartin, Jacqueline Briggs.
Summary: When a case of chicken measles steals the voice of the blue-headed rooster who used to crow all day long, his friend, a plain brown hen, brings musicians to remind him to sing and save him from becoming "quiet rooster stew."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007