Mass, Wendy
Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2011
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Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KINLai, Remy
Summary: "Though Henry Khoo is twelve years old, he's still treated like a baby. He's forbidden from going anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is canceled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAILai, Remy
Summary: In Fly on the Wall, a moving and hilarious novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Pie in the Sky, a twelve-year-old boy goes on a (forbidden) solo journey halfway around the world to prove his independence to his overprotective family.Henry Khoo's family treats him like a baby. He's not allowed to go anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. His (former) best friend knows to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "On the surface, capable teenage boys may look lazy. But dig a little deeper, writes child psychologist Adam Price in He's Not Lazy, and you'll often find conflicted boys who want to do well in middle and high school but are afraid to fail, and so do not try. This book can help you become an ally with your son, as he discovers greater self-confidence and accepts responsibility for his future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.235 PRIMass, Wendy
Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MASGeorge, Alex
Summary: "From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2017Johnson, Varian
Summary: "Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHKotb, Hoda
Summary: A celebration of all the things that hope can mean and how to reach for your dreams, whether they are as big as the night sky or as small as a bowl of ice cream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2024
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Summary: Inspiring young boys to be as gentle as they are strong, this beautiful book explores the tumbles and triumphs of childhood. New York Times bestselling author Hilary Duff fills the pages with wishes for her own son and encourages boys everywhere to embrace all that life has to offer them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUFSummary: "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man." Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, The UP Series has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, a researcher for Seven Up, has been...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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Summary: In 1964 Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to the same subjects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UPPeck, M. Scott (Morgan Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit PeckKinney, Jeff.
Summary: While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA Fiction KinneyCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KINLancaster, Jen
Summary: The author attempts to act her age by trying her hand at investment-making, getting a mortgage, and obtaining life insurance, and describes the humorous results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANWeinstein, Arnold L.
Contents: Itinerary : morning to noon -- The uses of innocence -- The lessons of experience -- Love -- Falling in love -- Love gone wrong : the story of abuse -- Familial sacrifice : kindermord -- Systemwide sacrifice : children and the nightmare of history -- The wild child -- Growing all the way up -- Itinerary : noon to night -- Fathers undone -- Exiting the stage -- The old in love -- Postsexual --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93354 WEIAutry, James A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Publishing 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.79 AUTSummary: Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Granada Television Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORButler, Nickolas
Summary: "A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUTButler, Nickolas.
Summary: "Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations.Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTKinney, Jeff.
Summary: While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINTait, Kimberley
Summary: "Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017