Zsako, Balint
Summary: Bunny and Tree first meet when the tree observes a ferocious wolf threatening the bunny and comes to its protection. From that moment on, there is a bond of trust between the two, which flowers not only into friendship, but amazingly, into a road trip adventure, when Bunny, who's looking for his rabbit friends, convinces Tree that it's time to uproot and see the world. Compelled by sympathy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2023
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Summary: "When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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Summary: When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINRichter, Conrad
Summary: The Luckett family, pioneers from Pennsylvania, face the hardships and unknown perils of America's forest wilderness during their journey westward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2018
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Summary: A curious child wonders if tiny trees dream of being big, if the tallest trees get lonely, and what part is the heart of a tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YULLawlor, Laurie
Summary: "After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: In the aftermath of tradegy, life goes on painful and forever altered, but ripe with new beginnings. Julie's travels to the beautiful but ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi to discover a secret past and a life she never expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library Accent 2011
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Summary: "A newly planted sidewalk tree in the city transforms the neighborhood as residents nurture it through the seasons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOSWalden, Brandon
Summary: "[The story of] a young prince who grows up giving and receiving seeds (words). He faithfully plants and waters those seeds daily, until they grow to become very powerful trees. Later, with the help of a friend, he is able to cut down and uproot the bad ones and then replant good seeds in their place"--Preliminary page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [The Treasured Tree LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALCzajak, Paul
Summary: Abigail defends her pet choice, explaining that Fido the dogwood tree keeps her cool during the day, listens when she tells him to stay, and even gives her air to breathe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2020
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Summary: Sasha has just discovered she has wings and can fly so she, her best friend Wyatt, and their teacher Caleb journey into a magical forest to try and find where Sasha came from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction PearlKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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Colleen, Marcie
Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLPope, Elodie
Summary: These pint-sized books talk about everday things in an extraordinary way. Celebrate your baby's fascination with the little things in his orher big world as you read them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2017
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Summary: Do trees sneeze in the autumn breeze? What do you think?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Your Nickel's Worth Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREMcConaughey, Matthew
Summary: A suicidal man befriends a Japanese man in "Suicide Forest" in Japan, and the two search for a way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEA RATED PG-13Okparanta, Chinelo
Summary: A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKPDrouillard, Staci Lola
Summary: Chronicles the changes brought upon a beloved family tree that must be uprooted and planted on new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: In rhyming text, a classroom of children watches the tree they planted, and the birds and animals that make their homes in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCMFries, Hannah
Summary: "Fiona Lee's charming illustrations invites little ones to celebrate a wonderful tree, learn its name, and say thank you for the tree's joyful, natural gifts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2021
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Summary: "Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHAColfer, Chris
Summary: A friendless girl who is teased for being different runs away from her village in tears and finds herself having a conversation with a very unusual tree, who tells a story of how his differences not only saved his life, they helped him see that he is not so very different after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLGlass, Julia
Summary: When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017