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Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Havrelock, Deidre

Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024

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Greenberg, Jan

Summary: Tells the story behind the creation of "Appalachian Spring," describing Aaron Copland's composition, Martha Graham's intense choreography and Isamu Noguchi's set design.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flash Point 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J792.8 GRE

Peirce, Lincoln

Summary: "¡Nate el grande vive a tope ! Cuando le piden a Nate que se haga amigo de un nuevo alumno, se muestra más que dispuesto...hasta que lo conoce. ¿Tendrá Nate que aguantar a un aguafiestas? ¿O su nuevo compañero será el alma de la fiesta?"-- Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RBA / Lectorum 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEI

Sanders, Rob

Summary: Ruby Rose loves to dance... while she's brushing her teeth, while she's eating her breakfast, and even on her way to class. But there's NO DANCING at school! Or is there? With a little luck and a lot of rhythm, Ruby Rose finds a way to get everyone up on their dancing feet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC SAN

McNamara, Margaret

Summary: As they celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the kids in Mrs. Connor's class share their hopes and dreams and imagine how to make the world a better place to honor the important holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MCN

Vandever, Daniel W.

Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE VAN

Maddox, Jake

Summary: "Tobias Wilson has a secret. For the past two years, since attending a Choctaw Nation powwow with his family, he's been teaching himself how to hoop dance. But when his best buddy Declan discovers him dancing, it isn't long before his whole class knows. Once the secret is out, Tobias has the opportunity to share his dancing at the spring talent show, but he's not sure he wants that. Is he ready...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Florence, Melanie

Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLO

Viva, Frank

Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIV

O'Connor, Jane

Summary: When Ms. Glass runs out of Backward Day ideas, Nancy comes up with a way to celebrate the day.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG O'CO

Summary: Strawberry and her friends love to dance - and the Peculiar Purple Pie Man of Porcupine Peak is taking advantage of it. He has Sour Grapes open a phony dance studio, posing as a famous teacher. Sour Grapes has to keep the kids busy while he plunders the berry crops. But things don't go as planned. Sour Grapes begins to enjoy teaching Strawberry and her friends and can't bring herself to betray...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STR

Sorell, Traci

Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOR

Jowitt, Deborah

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOW

Baldwin, Neil

Summary: "A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA BAL

O'Connor, Jane.

Summary: When Nancy, the girl who loves to use fancy words, learns about Earth Day and "being green," her enthusiasm causes problems at home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE O'Co

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCO

Rowling, J. K.

Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ROW

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 Row

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Look out for Little Women-soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep! Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

Gephart, Donna

Summary: When Abby Braverman's best friend, Cat, moves to Israel, she's sure it's the worst thing that could happen. But then her older brother, Paul, is diagnosed with cancer, and life upends again. Now it's up to Abby to find a way to navigate seventh grade without her best friend, help keep her brother's spirits up during difficult treatments, and figure out her surprising new feelings for the boy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GEP

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCH

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Alc

O'Connor, Jane

Summary: While on a field trip to the aquarium, Nancy discovers that she loves all the different sea life except for jellyfish, but with the help of Ms. Glass and her friends, Nancy is able to overcome her fear of the gelatinous animals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCO

Peirce, Lincoln

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEI

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