Look, Lenore
Summary: Fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho goes on a trip to China with his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOOLook, Lenore.
Summary: A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOOCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place in the lives of the people of this world. Dowsers find water, the second sight warns of dangers to come, and a torch...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF CardCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: When his teacher asks him to write a persuasive argument about something he really wants, fourth-grader Calvin creates a unique way to express his desire for a dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALFlorentine, Jasmine
Summary: Hex Allen can't do magic - a huge problem when everything from lights to locks is powered by simple spells that everyone can do. After years of feeling useless, Hex seizes the chance to change her future by journeying to the Wishing Wyrm, a legendary dragon that will grant a single wish once a century. Unfortunately, Hex isn't the only one after the wish, and every rival wish hunter has magic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLOSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: Nine-year-old Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: The continuing tales of Alvin, a young magician living in an alternate 19th Century America. In this volume, Alvin's brother, Calvin, journeys to France to meet an alternate, victorious Napoleon--the year is 1820--to learn the art of rule. By the author of Prentice Alvin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALWatterson, Bill.
Summary: The final collection of comic strips from the popular syndicated series follows the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel Publishing 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J741.5 WATCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: An alternative-history novel in Colonial America in which a woman who can foresee the future tries to convince the King of New England to abolish the slave trade. If the trade is not abolished, she says, there will be a war between the free and slave nations of North America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHoughton, Marlene
Summary: There have been many books written on herbal medicine. This book differs from most because it is based on the empowerment model, which aims to help people take responsibility for their own health. Houghton helps readers tackle everyday ailments and takes the guesswork out of using herbs to keep them feeling well. Herbal medicine is useful for a range of common complaints, and gentle and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Dish the rock, drain a trey, and beat the buzzer! Learn what all those terms and more mean in this bouncin' book. Readers pull on their sneakers and hit the court to learn how to 'talk like a basketball player' "--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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Summary: "Sacks, blitzes, bombs, and so much more! Find out what all those football words mean when you pull on your helmet and learn how to 'talk like a football player' "--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Gigliotti, Jim
Summary: "Sacks, blitzes, bombs, and so much more! Find out what all those football words mean when you pull on your helmet and learn how to 'talk like a football player' "--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.McCann, Les
Contents: Watermelon man -- Beaux J Poo Boo -- The great city -- Guantanamera -- Sunny (Parts I and II) -- Green, green rocky road -- Little freak -- Red top -- Compared to What? -- My friends -- Sad little girl -- La Brea -- Goin' out of my head -- Boo-Go-Loo -- Colonel Rykken's southern fried chicken.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCCDavis, Lindsey
Summary: In Ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves, all of them, guilty or not, were presumed responsible and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVBroonzy, Big Bill
Contents: Bossie woman -- Texas tornado -- Tell me what kind of man Jesus is -- Trouble in mind -- See see rider -- When I've been drinkin' -- Martha -- Swing low sweet chariot -- Key to the highway -- Goodby baby blues -- Big Bill's guitar blues -- Somebody's got to go -- Water coast -- Take this ole' hammer -- Diggin' my potatoes -- Rock me baby -- Carless love -- I love my whiskey -- You've been...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BROKubo, Mitsurou
Summary: Kinichiro isn't even that bad. It's just that on the first day of high school, his narrow eyes made him look shifty, so people assumed he was trouble. Now it's graduation, and he's looking back on three years with no friends. He never even joined a club. But after a bloody collision and an accidental fall, he wakes up a high school freshman, with the chance to try it all over... AGAIN!!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AGAFrench, Nicci.
Summary: While consulting on the murder of housewife, who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction French 2014Summary: Follows the story of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INFrench, Nicci.
Summary: "The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series Drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein, a growing readership is discovering Nicci French's acclaimed series with each chilling installment. In Thursday's Children, Frieda faces her most personal case yet when a former classmate appears at Frieda's door, begging for her help....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books On Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRETrine, Greg.
Summary: As Melvin and Candace continue their crime-fighting work as superheroes, the McNasty Brothers, the McNasty Sisters, and the school bullies all plot to get even with them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2006