Lassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Campbell, David G.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 981 CAMEhlert, Lois.
Summary: An adaptation of the Peruvian folktale in which Fox and Mole try to climb to the moon on a rope woven of grass.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyager Books 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J 398.2 SPANISH EHLSummary: (1st work) The teacher from the Black Lagoon: On the first day of school, a young boy expects the worst when he discovers that his new teacher, Mrs. Green, is the "monster." (2nd work) What's under my bed?: Mary Ann and Louie are convinced there is something scary under their beds. (3rd work) By the light of the Halloween moon: A spying cat, a watchful witch, a hobgoblin sprite, all are scary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEASummary: Peruvian leaders will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. President Alan Garcia begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from the indigenous leader Alberto Pizango. Alberto's passionate speeches against Garcia prove a powerful rallying cry from those of his supporters. When Garcia...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHERedfield, James.
Summary: The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDSlaughter, Karin
Summary: "For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it's the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SLARobey, Katherine Crawford
Summary: In Tor & Raven arefriends, Tor, a King shepherd, finds a Petoskey stone on the beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He hopes that the rare stone will bring him a friend. Meanwhile in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Raven, too, finds a remarkable stone, a heart-shaped rock, right in the middle of the print of a bear paw. That night a great West Wind arises and blows Raven all the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROBSmith, Brian
Summary: "After Jay is bullied by Pumpkin, three besties Pea, Bee and Jay band together to prove that being big doesn't mean you get to push others around and, discovering Pumpkin has some extra-large issues of her own, must get to the root of the problem"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMIHansen, Grace
Summary: "Built by the Inca people thousands of years ago, Machu Picchu still stands today after it was mysteriously abandoned by those who inhabited it. Young readers will learn about who built it, when it was built, and why it was built. This title is complete with impressive historical and current photographs and images, and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 985.37 HANSmith, Brian
Summary: "Jay the blue jay has never learned to fly, which has never been a problem. . .until a crew of super cool birds touch down at the farm and invite him to play some super cool flying games. Now Jay needs to figure out how to fly--and fast--before he misses out on all the fun. Lucky for him, his best buds Pea and Bee know just what to do. . ."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMIRockliff, Mara
Summary: "Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a visual artist, art teacher, and Catholic nun whose work was revolutionary and is widely revered. In her classroom, she encouraged her students to see the ordinary as extraordinary and make art from the so-called commonplace around them. She embodied this in her own work--making screen prints and collage that celebrated the values and themes of hope, love, justice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Acevedo, Desirée
Summary: "Vega and her friend Alex wonder why the pencil in the box is called 'skin color' when it doesn't match either of them. This question leads them on a beautiful journey of exploring the diverse array of skin colors they see in the world. Together, they discover how to bring all of them into their art."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz SL 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACEThomson, Hugh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 985.37 THOLinde, Barbara M.
Summary: "Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates need money for their campaigns? How do they get the funds they need to succeed in politics? This book focuses on how and where presidential candidates obtain the money to help them run for the country's highest office. Readers will learn about the history of campaign fund-raising and discover how candidates in different time periods approached...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.7 LINSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILLlanos, Mariana
Summary: In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.MacQuarrie, Kim.
Summary: In 1532, the fifty-four year old Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980 MACMacfarlane, Robert
Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.23 MACVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world-especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon-but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
McCaffrey, Anne.
Summary: Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey Ballantine Books 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: Fantasy McCaffrey 2012McCaffrey, Todd
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCNye, Jody Lynn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 1997