Dungy, Tony
Summary: When they find a lost wallet at the parade, the Dungy children learn an important lesson about telling the truth and doing the right thing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUNChristie, Tory
Summary: Now that budding scientist Curious McCarthy's dad is going back to work, the five oldest McCarthy kids will be helping more with chores and taking turns cooking dinner. When her parents present the daily chore chart, Curious is delighted that they forgot to assign her a task. She spends the next week trying to go unnoticed and chore-less as she learns about chemistry and observes it at work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHRAbbott, Tony.
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JT CD Fiction Abbott 2011Krans, Angela Pham
Summary: When Felix's grandmother comes from Vietnam to stay with his family in the United States, Felix realizes that he can help Grandma by teaching her English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRAAntony, Steve
Summary: While on an adventure to find the Rainbowsaurus, two dads and their children are joined by a menagerie of rainbow-colored animals who want to find the Rainbowsaurus too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crocodile Books 2024
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Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before--in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HODunn, Pintip
Summary: The Tech sisters don't date in high school-- because they're not allowed. Until now. Six months after the older Tech twins got to college, their parents asked, 'Why aren't you engaged yet?' Her traditional Thai parents now insist that their youngest daughter, Orrawin (aka 'Winnie'), must practice fake dating in high school. Under their watchful eyes, of course-- and organized based on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNLong, Ethan
Summary: Fifth grader Benny wants to focus on not flunking out of fifth grade, but he must also cope with his complicated home life with newly divorced parents, a mother who moves away, and a father with terminal lung cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LONArnold, Elana K.
Summary: "There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She just finished third grade. She has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball. She doesn't always tell the truth. She is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year. Okay, maybe that last one isn't entirely the truth. Of course, there's nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARNHo, Joanna
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Waiting for a baby brother or sister is hard to do when you aren't sure what when happen or when. It helps when you can tell yourself a story about how a maybe baby can become your very own little sister or brother. Told from an older sister's point of view, this is an endearing story about adoption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOLYang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022