Garza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG GARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX GARMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: "Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 MAR SPANISHKim, Hyo-eun
Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENMarley, Ziggy
Summary: A picture book based on Ziggy Marley's popular song celebrating music's many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen, from a loved one's laughter to the "river's latest tune," Marley reminds children everywhere that you don't need an instrument to create a beautiful song. Music is in Everything is a sweet and uplifting ode to the power and beauty of song.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books/Tuff Gong Worldwide Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MARPalatini, Margie
Summary: "A shark documents its adventures in the ocean with an action camera"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: "A little girl wants to write poetry. One sumer day, she explores a town on Cape Cod, along with the poet who lives nearby. Inspired by the life and craft of Mary Oliver."--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MACPhilip, Claire
Summary: Imagine a carousel that was enchanted so the animals on it came to life! That's what happens in this delightful tale of a carousel unicorn who's able to leave the ride it's called home to travel around the world. Readers are sure to be drawn to this story's charming text and colorful illustrations, which make this a fun tale to discover independently or share at story time. In addition to an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIAuyeung, Pearl
Summary: "Once upon a morning in Hong Kong, in the alley of Tai Yuen Street, a girl is promised a mooncake with a double-yolk center ... the special mooncake seems like the only excitement on an otherwise boring day in the market where nothing changes ... until an exhausted stranger falls to his knees right in the street! He ran through forests, swam through rivers, and even stowed away on a ship, all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AUYKrishnaswami, Uma
Summary: "Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the mountain also known as Everest. He has always dreamed of climbing to the top. He becomes a guide, leading treks through the Himalayas, and finally attempts the highest mountain himself, but doesn't make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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Summary: While trying his best to help a penguin that has shown up at his door, a boy journeys all the way to the South Pole, only to realize that the penguin was never lost.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JEFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION JeffersCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEFDrago, Flavia Z.
Summary: Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DRAAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECordell, Matthew
Summary: To deliver her mother's delicious soup to her sick Granny Oak, Evergreen the squirrel must face her fears and make the journey, during which she meets other forest dwellers, including some who want to get their hands on her soup!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CORGill, Jim
Summary: This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man's operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jim Gill 2009
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Summary: "From this first stanza, readers are invited to pay attention--and to see that paying attention itself is poetry. Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido's playful text and Melissa Sweet's dynamic, inventive artwork are paired together to encourage readers to listen, feel, and discover the words that dance in the world around them--poems just waiting to be written down."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ALECho, Tina
Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: "Rafa and his dad love to measure anything and everything-including how much Rafa's dad loves him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CEPMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARHigginson, Sheila Sweeny
Summary: "As Drac's family continues to grow, he realizes there will have to be some compromises--especially since his daughter, Mavis, is a vampire, and her husband, Johnny, is a human. But when it comes to his family, Drac always finds a way. He just needs to figure out how to make his new family a monster mash!"--Jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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Summary: "A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Cooper 2019Raúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAURice, Clay
Summary: "A baby coos. A mommy sighs. Little one tucked in with dreams in her eyes. A gentle hand turns out the light. And all is quiet at the stroke of goodnight" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Familius LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RICHo, Joanna
Summary: "Her son will be courageous and kind, powerful and curious, and blaze his own trail. He will know that it is okay to cry, or be scared, or uncertain. Above all, he will know that he is more than enough exactly as he is. An extraordinary gift for Mother's Day and loved ones everywhere" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023