Summary: 17-year-old Katie Price has been sheltered since childhood with a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. During the day she is housebound, but after nightfall, Katie can venture out to the local train station and play her guitar for travelers. One night, her dreams come true when she's noticed by Charlie, whom she has secretly admired for years, and decides to hide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: Her name is Alexandria Aurora Fortunato, and she is as lovely as the dawn. But that is only one of her problems. There's also the matter of those three magical gifts of treasure bestowed on her by a mysterious old woman. And King Claudio the Cruel wants to marry her for her beauty and her wealth, and so does his rival, Prince Edmund of Dorloo. Those are two more problems. And, worst of all, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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Summary: In 1866 London, Dr. Julia Lewis, when grisly murders happen all over the city, works with Inspector Richard Tennant to understand a killer's dark obsessions and motivations, facing off against a fiendishly calculating opponent who has set his sights on Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KINLawrence, Patrice
Summary: "When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures and tales that span thousands of years... Join Tante Janet and her inquisitive niece as they share the story of how her family came to the Caribbean, through the dark days of colonization and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWGrindley, Sally.
Summary: As Max who is almost ten and his favorite author, D.J. Lucas, exchange letters, the two writers help each other with their new books and develop a special friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRIGrindley, Sally.
Summary: A little girl learns to skate. She escapes into the snowy polar landscape of her imagination until it's time for her to go home again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lobster Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRISummary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUNStingley, Diane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STIGrindley, Sally.
Summary: As he turns eleven years old, Max continues to exchange letters with his favorite author, from whom he receives some advice about writing a play and about coping with his mother's new boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRIHamrick, Janice.
Summary: Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore's family Thanksgiving is disrupted by violent disputes involving a cousin's imminent divorce, which is further complicated by a disappearance, a murder and numerous suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1988
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Summary: "Renee Richardson's list of Christmas wishes includes: a few more clients at her hair salon, a few less unsuitable dates set up by her father, and some new friends for her troubled young son, Kieran. Little does she know that Kieran has already made a pal in their new town... a scrappy little dog named Max, who he found in the woods. When Max gets caught in a snare, Kieran and his grandfather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PethickHamrick, Janice.
Summary: "Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And that's only the beginning. From the guide who always seems to be off on his cell phone having the most urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: After her business partner and ex-fiance is found murdered in their dance studio, Stacy Graysin finds her world spinning wildly out of control when she is named the chief suspect in the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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Summary: "When her cuddly canine companion Boomer is diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Jennifer Westbrook decides to take a leave of absence from her busy PR job and take Boomer on the greatest road trip of his life. Charting a course from Chicago to California, Jennifer plans some pet-friendly pit stops for her four-legged friend, including a dog show, a fire hydrant museum, and a factory full of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: A quick-thinking father thwarts his daughter's impending temper tantrum when he transforms an everyday walk outside into an exciting strollercoaster ride through the neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIStrick, Alexandra
Summary: "You can . . . be brave, challenge yourself, overcome your fears, be kind, be YOU! Come on an amazing journey with fourteen young people as they grow from birth to eighteen, learning new skills, exploring new worlds, standing up for their own and others' rights, and following their dreams. Created in consultation with real young adults, Alexandra Strick's groundbreaking narrative will inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: The farm yard animals help Mother Hen find her lost chicks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRIHamrick, Janice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMMattick, Lindsay.
Summary: A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COL1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAT
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MATParrack, Keely
Summary: Lily needs a ride--a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2024