Summary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARMasood, Syed
Summary: "Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MASHuser, Glen
Summary: Quirky babysitter Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, a spooky apartment building rumoured to be haunted, and enchants her young charges with ghost stories that they find eerily familiar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HUSSyed, Anoosha
Summary: Mirha questions her name after her classmates continually pronounce it wrong on the first day of school so her mother helps her to learn the significance of her name and to be proud of it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYEMacDonald, Suse.
Summary: Follow the leader and count the fish that live beneath the sea, then turn the book upside-down and count back down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2007
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MACAkpan, Uwem.
Summary: This collection of five stories set in various African countries reveals the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKPAkpan, Uwem.
Summary: These stories are told from the viewpoints of the children of Africa. Akpan's ability to capture a child's imagination and his skillful portrayal of the situation they endure is nothing short of transcendent. His stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AKPAkpan, Uwem.
Summary: Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2008
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Summary: "A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKPKusel, Susan
Summary: In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE KUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUSAbed, Omar
Summary: A boy begrudgingly composes a sometimes-rhyming adventure with his precocious little sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ABECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABEMasood, Syed
Summary: "Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Summary: "This colorful autumn tale follows ten turkeys as they get ready for an important celebration. This story teaches about gratitude. There are also fun turkey facts in the back of the book"--Cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E MUSSyed, Anoosha
Summary: Pup Milo sets off on an adventure around the world to track down what he thinks is his best friend's prized possession.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: "It's the hottest day of the year, hotter than broccoli soup, hotter than the Atacama Desert, hotter than the surface of the sun. It's just the right kind of day for a boy and his grandad to go for a picnic. But as the sun beats down, Grandad keeps having to stop for a rest, and by the time they find the perfect picnic spot, some pirates have beaten them to it. Good job they have enough food to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: "When a boy and his granddad take care of a little bird, the boy wants to keep it-- but Granddad knows it must return to its natural habitat in the wild, where it can spread its wings and be free. And so begins an exhilarating journey into the mountains to return the bird to where it belongs"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: It's raining, but one little boy can't wait to go outside for an adventure with his granddad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2017
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Summary: Join a boy and his grandfather as they enjoy a snow day in the park!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2015
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Summary: When the cat they are caring for runs off into the wild, a young boy and his granddad are led on an adventure of their own as they try to find it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE USHLewis, Kristyn Kusek
Summary: Greyhill, Virginia, refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't, just got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows what to expect. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said than done.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWLewis, Kristyn Kusek
Summary: Greyhill, Virginia is a refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, they'll be living across from his mother, and taking over the family's inn-keeping business. Bess lost her White House job under a cloud of scandal. She gets an opportunity to write an article for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEWLewis, Kristyn Kusek.
Summary: "In the tradition of Emily Giffin and Marisa de los Santos, HOW LUCKY YOU ARE is an engaging and moving novel about three women struggling to keep their longstanding friendship alive. Waverly, who's always been the group's anchor, runs a cozy bakery but worries each month about her mounting debt. Kate is married to a man who's on track to be the next governor of Virginia, but the larger...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWObed, Ellen Bryan
Summary: From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Obed 2013Van Dusen, Chris
Summary: Based on a real incident that occurred in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine, this rhyming story recounts what happens when a really big flatbed truck carrying a mysterious, covered load across a small island gets stuck on a tight curve and blocks traffic in both directions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022