Summary: Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ELO

Soo, Kean

Summary: Portia is bright beyond her years, which makes it difficult to make friends in her new school, and her single mother is preoccupied, so when Portia sneaks into the woods after midnight and discovers a shy and sweet purple monster, she is delighted by her new friend--but Jellaby has secrets of his own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SOO

Soo, Kean

Summary: Ten-year-old Portia Bennett and her friend Jason continue to search Toronto for clues to the origin of the purple monster, Jellaby--but things turn dangerous when they are confronted with a tentacled monster with a taste for children.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SOO

Wang, Jen

Summary: Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WAN (graphic novel)

Hatke, Ben

Summary: "When a little girl finds an adorable robot in the woods, she presses a button and accidentally activates him for the first time. Now, she finally has a friend. But the big, bad robots are coming to collect the little guy for nefarious purposes, and it's all up to a five-year-old armed only with a wrench and a fierce loyalty to her mechanical friend to save the day!" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HAT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HAT