Birdsall, Jeanne
Summary: Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are the things that have shaped Lydia's journey since readers first met her in The Penderwicks in Spring. Now it's summertime, and eleven-year-old Lydia is dancing at the bus stop, waiting for big sister Batty to get home from college. This is a very important dance and a very important wait because...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books On Tape, Listening Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BIRWalsh, Liam Francis
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WALJohnson, Varian
Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHRamée, Lisa Moore
Summary: Eleven-year-old Jenae doesn't have any friends, and she's just fine with that. She's so good at being invisible in school, it's almost like she has a superpower, like her idol, Astrid Dane. Then a new student shows up at school, a boy named Aubrey. The more she tries to push him away, the more he seems determined to be her friend. But when the two are paired up for a class debate about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RAMMiller, Kayla
Summary: "With their first formal school dance around the corner, Beth and Chanda are on a mission to make it the best night ever. Step one? Secure the perfect dresses so they can dominate the dance floor! But when neither of them can find an outfit that lives up to their high expectations--and when they encounter unexpected pressure to find dates--these besties will need to lean on their friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLKuhn, Sarah
Summary: "Veronica Lodge has always been the most fabulous and popular kid in her class. But ever since she started middle school, she's become a small fish in a much bigger pond. Now, Veronica is terrified her classmates will find out her wealthy dad is out of work. Worse, she has a birthday coming up, and her parties are always huge, grand events. If she can't have a party this year, then everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BuzzPop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KUHPearson, Luke
Summary: "In the latest installment of the Hildafolk series, Hilda is thrust into a new life in the bustling city of Trolberg, far from the magic and wonder of her birthplace in the Fjords. Lamenting the loss of her enchanting, wooded surroundings, Hilda wonders if she'll ever recapture the same excitement in this strange new concrete forest. Hilda is set for a thunderbolt of surprise as she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2012
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Summary: Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Blume 1988Brody, Jessica
Summary: When two twelve-year-old girls--one a famous TV star, the other an obsessive fan--switch bodies the results are nothing but disastrous.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BROHale, Shannon
Summary: Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Jamila Waheed does not want to spend her first summer in a new neighborhood at science camp when she could be shooting hoops at the local basketball court. And Shirley Bones is looking for a summer of freedom too. When the two girls meet, they quickly figure out a solution for each other's predicaments: Their moms agree to let them spend the summer together, hanging out on the basketball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOELong, Loren.
Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTIOrtega, Claribel A.
Summary: "Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches. And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can't wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn't placed in one of the five covens....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ORTAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALISummary: Pile into the car, fasten your seatbelts, and cue the CD player---it's always an exciting ride when you're traveling with the folks from Odyssey! This time you'll witness Eugene's flight from a mad bull in Mexico; go treasure-hunting in Alaska; solve a ghost town mystery with the Washington family; and more
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Juvenile AdvCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ADVLiggett, Kim
Summary: Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIGCollins, Peggy
Summary: Harley is a service dog to elementary school teacher Ms. Prichard, who needs a quiet, orderly environment. One of her students, Amelia, has auditory sensitivities of her own. When a small fire throws the class into chaos, Harley must help Ms. Prichard -- but he's also the only one who can convince Amelia to come out of hiding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLTillworth, Mary
Summary: "Can Pua the pig stop Heihei the rooster from causing trouble for Moana at the island feast?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Cuando tanto Nate Wright como el matón Randy Betancourt se enamoran de Ruby, los altercados entre los dos resultan en sesiones de asesoramiento de pares que conducen a la amistad y a convertirse en compañeros de equipo en el equipo de frisbee Mud Bowl definitivo de la escuela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA Lectorum 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIGrant, Adam M.
Summary: As Box searches for the right person to reveal the gift he conceals, he encounters children who are grasping, bickering, rough, and otherwise badly behaved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRADarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DARFison, Julie
Summary: "For months Kitty MacLean has been crushing on Rio Sanchez, who is probably the cutest boy in the world. But it looks like she might never get a chance to hang out with him until ... 1. Kitty goes camping with her best friends like she promised them, and finds out Rio just happens to be staying not too far away. But should she meet up with him? Or is a grubby camping holiday not the best time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: Petra Peña, wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children, among them Petra and her family, have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022