Wall, Sheri
Summary: Thanksgiving is a time to come together with our loved ones and give thanks for all that we have. Kids will learn how to be thankful for the people and world around them as they delight in an exciting Thanksgiving adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WAL (basket)Alyan, Hala
Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYTaddonio, Lea
Summary: Damien is afraid of the dark. That's no big deal except for the fact that his dad happens to be the bogeyman, and worse, he expects Damien to grow up and follow in his footsteps, scaring human children on Halloween night. Can Damien convince his dad that he'd rather make candy than scare children?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TADYee, Lisa
Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEETaddonio, Lea
Summary: It's not easy being the youngest of three kids, especially when you're a vampire who hasn't gotten his fangs yet. Colin isn't even allowed to sleep in a coffin yet and his big sisters tease him about being a baby. Fed up, he decides to run away, but the world isn't as kind to monsters outside of Shiverwood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TADHale, Jenny
Summary: For Sydney Flynn, Starlight Cottage is her sanctuary. And now, her treasured family home at Firefly Beach is the perfect place for her fresh start. That is, until she spies Nate Henderson. As teenagers, Sydney and Nate promised each other forever. But Sydney has never forgotten how her childhood sweetheart ended their relationship with no explanation. She's spent the last decade piecing herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALLee, Fonda
Summary: "In Jade War, the sequel to the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019
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Summary: "Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma unit, a psychotherapist with years of experience, wise and respected by her peers. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never "fit in," disappeared a year and a half earlier. She cannot give up hope of finding him, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOLloyd, Megan Wagner
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2023
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Summary: What is a purple person? Great question. I mean, really great! Because purple people always ask really great questions. They bring their family, friends, and communities together, and they speak up for what's right. They are kind and hardworking, and they love to laugh (especially at Grandpa's funny noises)! A purple person is an everyday superhero! How do you become one? That's the fun part!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BELDahl, Michael
Summary: "In this DC Comics picture book, the heroic adventures of the Justice League mirror the extraordinary lives of real-life children and their diverse families. With bold illustrations and poetic text, this story makes all families--no matter how big or how small--feel out of this world!"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAHSummary: It's not easy for a boy to grow up with ten sisters. It's a constant battle not to succumb to their various plans for him. To maintain his own identity as the Man with a Plan, it's important to stay true to himself--even when being pulled in ten different directions. Lincoln Loud explores middle school life while Lori is working on her backswing at Fairway University, but what is Leni, Luna,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023
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Summary: This summer, Billy Dickens must fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, and try to save his own father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Tired of being treated like a child, a young girl sets out to prove herself capable to her multi-generational Indian-American family, but an ill-fated attempt at putting on a sari has an unexpected outcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHIThompson, Kim Mitzo.
Summary: Learn all about Sophie's family and her dog Thunder. Listen along to the CD, and you will feel you are a part of the family! Read the entire story in Spanish. Then, flip over the book and read the entire story in English!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twin Sisters IP, LLC 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JN Spanish ThompsonSummary: 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
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ADVPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLSazaklis, John
Summary: When third-grader Billy Burger takes the class pet ferret to the school assembly it gets away, and Billy finds himself in trouble with the school and his detective father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SAZOstertag, Molly
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OSTSazaklis, John
Summary: His parents have placed the perpetually hungry Billy on a strict diet--no junk food--and despite the trouble it causes him, it looks like he will be in shape for the annual school jump-a-thon--which is interrupted by a trio of teenage thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone Imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SAZSazaklis, John
Summary: When a storm forces them inside for recess, third-grader Billy and his friends sneak into the school library and turn it into a chaotic mess--so he organizes a book drive as an apology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: When third-grader Billy Burger gets into a fight with the Randy, the school bully, he is suspended, and his parents, while sympathetic, assign him to volunteer for the Shake-a-paw Animal Shelter, which is not so bad, except for the dog poop--and proves to have unexpected benefits when the Randy corners him in an alley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SAZMcPherson, Ben.
Summary: "In one of the most entertaining and twisty thrillers of the year a London family, a mother, father and young son, must deal with the murder of their secretive next door neighbor and the intrusive police investigation that follows. Readers will be faced with ever shifting and increasingly frightening suspicions that one or all of them had something to do with it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY MCPHovorka, Sarah
Summary: Hattie learns to establish her boundaries with confidence and without hurting the feelings of her overly affectionate relatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022