English, Karen
Summary: "In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who willenjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: A novel about a girl on the cusp of her teenage years, who is growing up faster than she ever hoped she would. When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage of what was once an idyllic life, searching for something--or someone--to hold on to. What she finds is Ian, short for Obsidian: the magnificent but dangerously headstrong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGEnglish, Karen
Summary: "Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ENGSala, Laurenne
Summary: In this bilingual picture book celebration of family life, young readers are invited into Lucia's home where she takes them on a tour of her busy and cozy casa and introduces them to her beautiful familia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALAlison, Lorence
Summary: Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALISala, Laurenne
Summary: Laurenne Sala's heartworming text, accompanied by Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: E SALSala, Laurenne
Summary: A father tells his child about his love, fear, and joy in being her parent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: "In this beautiful celebration of motherhood, the universal message of unconditional love for a child shines through. Laurenne Sala's heartworming text, accompanied by Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and beyond." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COSLaurence, Margaret.
Summary: Hagar Shipley, a fiercely proud woman facing the end of her life, escapes from her nursing home and searches for a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past and come to terms with mortality
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAULaurence, Michael
Summary: The discovery of a deadly virus being smuggled across the border pits FBI Special Agent James Mason and his strike force against an unknown adversary hell-bent on humanity's destruction. In a desperate effort to contain the pathogen, they launch a predawn raid, only to find that their enemy knows they're coming...and it's not about to be taken alive. An explosion rips through the building,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUYep, Laurence
Summary: Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
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Summary: Isabelle, who attends a performing arts school in Washington, D.C., with her older sister, Jade, has a passion for ballet dancing but lacks self-confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AG YEPQuin, Eilish
Summary: "Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind. Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, the Argonauts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Anholt, Laurence.
Summary: Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1994
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Summary: As a new Ice Age envelops Earth, survivors of Colony 7 answer a distress call from another outpost and find a threat that may annihilate all of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLYep, Laurence
Summary: A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper; an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GONLaurence, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAULaurence, Michael
Summary: "Michael Laurence delivers The Annihilation Protocol, the follow-up to The Extinction Agenda, in a series described as "Jack Reacher falling into a plot written by Dan Brown" (James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crucible). For centuries, a mysterious syndicate known as the Thirteen has staged a silent coup, infiltrating governments and manipulating the course of world events....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020