Choi, Yangsook.
Summary: After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG CHOPhilip, Simon
Summary: Before a little girl has a chance to name the cat that arrives unexpectedly at her house, he disappears again only to be replaced by another "pet," Steve the gorilla.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIShurtliff, Liesl.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Rump has never known his full name - his mother died before she could tell him. So all his life he's been teased and bullied for his half-a-name. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. For Rump discovers he can spin straw into gold. "Magical" gold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHUKelkar, Supriya
Summary: "When an Indian American boy starts school in a new classroom, one child can't pronounce his name properly. It stings, but his parents remind him that his name shows how special he is. With lush illustrations by Sandhya Prabhat, award-winning author Supriya Kelkar writes a stunning tribute to the thing that introduces us to the world -- our names -- reminding readers of the beauty in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALADumond-Desir, Samanka
Summary: When she and her family find a cat and, after no luck finding its owner, decide to keep her, Haitian American kindergartener Liline must come up with the perfect name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUMThompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREGreen, John
Summary: When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREShurtliff, Liesl.
Summary: Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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Summary: Alma quiere saber por qué su nombre es tan largo, así que Papi le cuenta a su pequeña la gran historia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: Mirha questions her name after her classmates continually pronounce it wrong on the first day of school so her mother helps her to learn the significance of her name and to be proud of it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYEParappukkaran, Sandhya
Summary: When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he decides to shrink his name to the shorter, simpler Zim, but when his new friend Elly sees him for who he truly is, Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step proudly into his long name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARBarnaby, Hannah Rodgers
Summary: To cheer up his best friend Boy, who just found out he is getting another baby sister, Monster takes him on a surprise adventure to learn about how monster babies are born and get their names.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BARPrimavera, Elise
Summary: A small dog named Baked Potato is lost and searching for his lady owner, but neither the grumpy dog or the fox are helpful, and his strange name creates confusion--until owl explains that, whatever he is called, he is really a dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Summary: Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HENWells, Rosemary
Summary: "When Sophie's new sister won't stop crying, only two-year-old Sophie can communicate with her, even if she isn't using her words as her parents want her to"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, published by Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2015Ahern, Cecelia
Summary: "Scandal has derailed Journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her, "What is the one story you always wanted to write?" The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office--a list of 100 names--with no notes or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P AHEHenkes, Kevin.
Summary: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HENCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENGunderson, Jessica
Summary: A retelling of the classic fairy tale from the point of view of Rumpelstiltskin, who spins straw into gold (for cash payments), but really dreams of having a son to raise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC GUNMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: When Alma Sofia Esperanza Jose Pura Candela asks her father why she has so many names, she hears the story of her name and learns about her grandparents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott Martinez-NealSheinmel, Courtney.
Summary: When a classmate makes fun of her name, eight-year-old Stella picks a new one for herself, but discovers that the name she abandoned suits her just fine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SHELópez, Silvia
Summary: After naming their firstborn son Pacho-Nacho-Nico-Tico-Melo-Felo-Kiko-Rico, Mama and Papa insist everyone use his full name, which causes trouble when their second son, Juan, says his brother needs help. Includes notes about the folktale on which the story is based and glossary of Spanish terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: "Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016