Serling, Joanne
Summary: "A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances. In an idyllic suburb, four young families quickly form a neighborhood clique, their friendships based on little more than the ages of their children and a shared sense of camaraderie. When one of the couples, Paige and Gene Edwards, adopt a four-year-old girl from Russia, the group's loyalty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERHering, Marianne.
Summary: When the Imagination Station sends time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth to a ship that is captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, they are befriended by James Forten, a free Black of Philadelphia, and help save the life of an imprisoned boy dying of scurvy. Includes a secret word puzzle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HeringHering, Marianne
Summary: On the eve of the American Revolution, Patrick and Beth travel back in time to deliver a letter to Paul Revere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HeringLagercrantz, David
Summary: Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Beth and Patrick time travel to 1950s and 1960s Equador where they come in contact with missionaries and the Waodani people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HerWang, Andrea
Summary: "The legendary Nian monster has returned at Chinese New Year. Nian is intent on devouring Shanghai, starting with young Xingling! But Xingling is clever and thinks quickly to outwit him with Chinese New Year traditions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WANWang, Andrea
Summary: Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Caldecott Wang 2021Wang, Margaret
Summary: Pages fold out to reveal many answers to the question, "Little bear, who do you love?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piggy Toes Press, an imprint of Bendon 2014
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Summary: Using handcrafted felt puppets, the authors recreate, in staged scenes and twelve words, the story of Luke Skywalker, who embarks on a quest to save the galaxy from the Death Star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2015
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Summary: "A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Summary: "Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YAGWang, Andrea
Summary: "Though they may speak different languages, kids from all over the world come together to enjoy the shared pastime of tea in this delicious book for young readers. When five-year-old Luli joins her new English as a Second Language class, the playroom is quiet. Luli can't speak English, neither can anyone else. That's when she has a brilliant idea to host a tea party and bring them all together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017