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
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Summary: "The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are world famous for their camps built from the land, surrounded by some of the most inspiring, untamed and stunning landscape in the world. This rugged terrain gave birth to its own form of distinctive architecture that has stood the test of time and remains a classic. Although the original great camps of the 1900s were so talked about because of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.097 OBOEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKAndrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUISummary: Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡Día de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIACabrera, Jane
Summary: In this expansion of a familiar song, the occupants of a rowboat enjoy seeing and making the sounds of different jungle animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CABWeiss-Tuider, Katharina
Summary: "For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken--and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing--fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 WEIBracewell, Michael
Summary: In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet-a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry's words, "above all, a state of mind." Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 BRASilver, Skye
Summary: "Develop healthy habits for growing bodies and minds with a fresh twist on a classic movement singalong. Follow a family through a day from home to school in their diverse community as they engage in healthy habits from good hygiene to reading. Includes educational endnotes about each health topic as well as audio and animation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SILBell, Cece
Summary: "Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BELJiménez, Vita
Summary: Every day we throw things away, but is everything we throw out really garbage? Can it be reused or made into something different? Learn how to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in this catchy song from the Me, My Friends, My Community series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.72 JimNielsen, Larry A.
Summary: "In 'Nature's Allies', Larry Nielsen profiles the lives of eight pioneers-- John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland-- all individuals from modest backgrounds who have influenced the course of conservation over the past century, showing us better ways to live in balance with nauture. Some famous and some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 NIESummary: Presents an illustrated version of the traditional song along with some discussion of its folk origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2003
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Summary: "In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 SUGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SUGSummary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WASHiggins, Nadia
Summary: Retells, through song, the tale of a frog which, in return for retrieving the princess's golden ball, exacts a promise she is reluctant to fulfill. Includes glossary, guided reading activities, and sheet music.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Contents: Pre-road downs -- Our house -- 49 bye-byes -- Long time gone -- Helplessly hoping -- Wooden ships -- Guinnevere -- Suite: judy blue eyes -- Marrakesh express -- Country girl -- You don't have to cry -- 4 + 20 -- Deja vu -- Cut my hair -- Helpless -- Teach your children -- Carry on -- Everybody i love you -- Lady of the island
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 1970
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 782.4 CROLithgow, John
Summary: A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE NEVLennon, John
Summary: Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in partnership with Amnesty International 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LENThiele, Bob.
Summary: Illustrations and lyrics introduce a song, first recorded in 1967 by Louis Armstrong, which celebrates the wonders of nature, loving friends, and the promise of the future in a baby's cry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: An illustrated presentation of the familiar folk song about railroad life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDBarner, Bob
Summary: A pack of flea infested pups flees from their bath, but a song on the ukulele might just bring them back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021