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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHISweet, Melissa
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GULHowe, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the sixth installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start afresh in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SCRSummary: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCRAlexander, Kwame
Summary: "From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOLMartin, Bill
Summary: Youngsters awaken in the morning with the belief that they are the greatest little ones in the world, whether they are children in their mothers' arms, eagles soaring above mountains, whales swimming in the ocean, or other animals in their domains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARRoot, Phyllis
Summary: Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: Rhyming text describes many different kinds of hugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYDThimmesh, Catherine.
Summary: Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Inventions ThimmeshWilson, Sarah
Summary: A young girl kisses her cat who kisses a cow who kisses a goose and so on until the kiss comes back to where it began.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1999
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E WilYolen, Jane
Summary: With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD YOLAppelt, 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