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Meet the author (Katonah, N.Y.)Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: An autobiography of the well-known author and illustrator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R.C. Owen 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POLACCO POLPolacco, Patricia
Summary: A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction PolaccoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2012Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2013Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: Paige Darling loves the stuffed rabbit her grandmother has made for her, but when she ties a helium-filled balloon to Bun Bun Button the toy gets loose and goes floating away, and it may take some Darling luck to bring her home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2011Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: A tapestry that is being used to cover a hole in a church wall at Christmas brings together an elderly couple who were separated during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Emma Kate and her best friend, an elephant, share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION PolaccoPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: When her beloved Ginger, a piano-playing socialite and very snappy dresser, makes a last-minute trip to London not knowing her housesitter has cancelled, Petunia the pig does more than fend for herself, she becomes Ginger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION PolaccoPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: When the spooky Graves family moves to town and tries to fit in with the "normal" residents of Union City, everyone is in for a few surprises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PolaccoPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: When the Graves family goes on their annual camping trip to Lake Bleakmire, they make a frightening discovery in the forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 1988Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: In this variation on the story of "The Fisherman and His Wife," a young Ukrainian girl must repeatedly return to the wren she has rescued to relay her parents' increasingly greedy demands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1994
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia
Summary: "Stella loves books so much, she starts her own library--but then a storm threatens to destroy everything"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Because he spends his time dreaming, the villagers are convinced that Appelemando will never amount to much but in time his dreams change the village and all the people in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1991
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Summary: During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2000
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Summary: A rhyming celebration of goats and their antics, from A to Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2003
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PolacPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1987
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Summary: Animals make many different noises, but when they make too much noise their mommies quiet them down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION PolaccoPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Childrens Books 0000
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Summary: Richie and his younger sister Trisha face off in a contest to see whose hobby is more challenging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2006