Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.6 MARWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: Meet thirty-five female athletes who played hard, broke records, and inspired girls around the world. You'll read about the first woman horse jockey to compete in the Kentucky Derby, the number one tennis player in the world, a surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack, and a snow boarder who landed a death-defying jump, along with many others. Includes: Simone Biles * Gretchen Bleiler * Hannah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids/Running Press Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEIMarron, Aileen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Editions 1998
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Summary: A book of knock knock jokes. Includes other puzzles and activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 818.602 WEIWeintraub, Aileen
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.132 WEIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: Presents a collection of gross riddles, jokes, and puzzles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.434 LINLindahl, Kay
Summary: Playfully explores with kids how God listens and how learning to listen is important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SkyLight Paths Pub. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 230 LINTaylor, Kendall
Summary: Explores Zelda Fitzgerald's affair with French aviator Edouard Jozan, the man on whom F. Scott Fitzgerald based his famous character Jay Gatsby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TAYNilsen, Anders
Summary: "Dogs and Water "chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NilsenRekdal, Paisley
Summary: "A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 REKSalley, Coleen.
Summary: A retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SALCahill, Coleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Friedman/Fairfax 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.77 CAHNilsen, Anna
Summary: This vibrantly illustrated picture book shows that best friends share good times, and although they also tire of each other occasionally, it doesn't mean the end of their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gingham Dog Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E NilWilken, Scott
Summary: "Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Historical Sites. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J133.12 WILZimmerman, Eilene
Summary: "Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZIMMERMAN, EILENE ZIMDineen, Jacqueline
Summary: An introduction to the grizzly bear's physical features, habitat, life cycle, relationships with other animals, threats they face, and related facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Animals DineenTichler, Heleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 BotermansVilden, Lynx
Summary: "In this memoir, earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: "I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILDEN, LYNX VILChristelow, Eileen.
Summary: Shows two authors going through all the steps involved in writing new books about a dog and cat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Words ChristelowChristelow, Eileen.
Summary: Shows two illustrators going through all the steps involved in creating new picture books of "Jack and the Beanstalk," including layout, scale, and point-of-view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Draw ChristelowForan, Eileen.
Summary: Text and photographs introduce that valiant bird of prey, the bald eagle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.969 FORPollack, Eileen
Summary: "Pollack shares with poignant humor and candid language the trials of being smart and female in a world that is just learning to imagine equality between the sexes. Maybe It's Me is a question all smart women have asked themselves. Pollack's autobiographical essays take us on a roller-coaster ride from gratifyingly humorous street-level stories of innocent curiosity to the calculated meanness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2022