Lilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LILSnyder, Laurel
Summary: Charlie and Mouse are mixing up a magical potion, with sweet and surprising results. The brothers also dance in the rain, bring some animals to dinner, and make wishes come true.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SNYBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop-literally-Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeeper, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARMurray, Lily
Summary: Bug enthusiast Evie's plan to bring her insect friends indoors ends in a disastrous family dinner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Seven Peppa Pig stories in one! In this timeless storybook treasury, enjoy seven charming tales about everyone's favorite little piggy, Peppa! From Peppa's first sleepover party to the adventures of Princess Peppa and Sir George, the Brave Knight, this collection of classic stories is sure to delight any Peppa Pig fan." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: Sophia has one true desire for her birthday. But she has Four Big Problems in the way: Mom, Dad, Uncle Conrad ... and Grand-mama. Will her presentations, proposals, and pie charts convince them otherwise? Turns out, all it takes is one word.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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Summary: Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2002
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Uss, Christina
Summary: "Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC USSRau, Adam
Summary: Jacky Hart tries to turn over a new leaf and end her reign as class clown, even though being funny helps distract her from her mother's deployment and her father's increased absence from home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUFucile, Tony
Summary: Louie's life is great! A walk on the leash every morning, ice cream on Sundays, snuggling in bed at night with Mom and Dad. Even the playdates with Mom's friends -- despite their little crawling creatures who pull Louie's ears -- aren't all that bad. But then things get weird: cold food on the floor, no room in the bed, and lots of new stuff coming into the house in pairs -- two small beds, two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: A talking tiger approaches a family during their annual end-of-summer camping trip and is befriended by the youngest, a boy who does not feel ready for first grade.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Choi 2019Rau, Adam
Summary: Longing to be part of the summer stock performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Jacky Hart must discover if juggling responsibilities is one of her many talents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PAT (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Lowry, Lois.
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LOWSpangler, Brie
Summary: In their tiny corner of Fox Point, Rhode Island, Gemma Hopper's older brother, Teddy, is a baseball god, destined to become a Major League star. Gemma loves playing baseball, but with her mom gone and her dad working endless overtime, it's up to her to keep the house running. She's too busy folding laundry, making lunches, getting her younger twin brothers to do their homework, and navigating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SPACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPASummary: "Join your favorite Supers, the Parr family, for an action-packed adventure in this collection of the movies retold as comics! Collecting Disneyand Pixar The Incredibles and Incredibles 2 comics, this graphic novel brings the adventure, danger, heart, humor, and heroics of the films from the screen to your fingertips!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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Summary: When six playful chicks get loose on Grandma and Grandpa's farm, Little Critter comes up with a plan to get them back, in this humorous story that will have beginner readers laughing out loud.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAYBrodeur, Adrienne
Summary: "From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets-for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes.Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHKoppelman, Amy
Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPBoulley, Angeline
Summary: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 0000
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Summary: With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 0000