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Board books Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction Detective and mystery stories Honey Juvenile fiction JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories Mystery and detective stories Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fiction Siblings Fiction Siblings Juvenile fictionMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMin, Anchee
Summary: The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINGoodwin, Archie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 1995
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GOORizzo, Theresa
Summary: How far would you go to save the one you love? Reporter Skylar Kendall has run from commitment all her life, pushing people away before they leave her, until her niece worms her way into Skye’s heart and settles in tight. Skye relaxes into a career she enjoys and relishes being a doting aunt. Then her niece becomes gravely ill. Unable to bear yet another loss, Skye is determined to find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzo Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIZBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: Anna the mole takes Bernard the wolf on a journy underground and encourages the reader to find different animals and objects that live or are buried underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Happy Fox Books, an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARMin, Anchee
Summary: Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MINBaruzzi, Agnese
Summary: Uses die-cut illustrations to show how the same shape can be found in different things, animals, and people, with shapes changing as readers turn the pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD BARMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MinRiazi, Karuna
Summary: Maria Latif is used to not having a space of her own. But what happens when she feels the sudden urge to put down roots in the most unexpected of places? Karuna Riazi crafts a tender coming-of-age story about friendship, family, and new beginnings. A Bit of Earth is a reimagining of the classic The Secret Garden for readers of Other Words for Home and The Bridge Home. Growing up in Pakistan,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIAAnchin, Lisa
Summary: Mr. Aster, who likes routine, is happy to care for Little Green Girl when she arrives in his garden, but not interested in helping her see the world beyond its walls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: There once was a time when all the colors, from midsummer blue to sunrise orange, lived at the tips of Annie's fingers...But when her classmates' sidelong glances cause Annie to notice all the tiny flaws in her art, her colorful creative spark fades to gray. With lyrical prose and eye-catching illustrations, author-artist Lisa Anchin shows readers how to find the beauty in imperfections and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANCRiazi, Karuna
Summary: A virtual reality game freezes time in New York City and thrusts twelve-year-old Ahmad Mirza and his classmate, Winnie, into the game world of Paheli, where they must overcome the Mastermind and the Architect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIARiazi, Karuna
Summary: Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to "give her a better life" in the United States, Maria is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIABaruzzi, Agnese.
Summary: Bernard wears glasses, but still can't see very well, and he needs your help! This time, he's flying high up in the sky with the help of his new friend, Enrico the Robin, who's teaching him how to sharpen his eyesight. Filled with charming activities and amazing scenes that take place in outer space, among colorful hot air balloons, inside a flock of flamingos, and more, children will have tons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Happy Fox Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J BARBaruzzi, Agnese.
Summary: "The world at your fingertips! Help your baby trace the finger paths in this Montessori-inspired board book specifically designed to nurture infant visual development using black, white, and red shapes. At the end of every trail, discover a new animal orobject from nature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BARArchie Superstars
Summary: The first issue of Archie was released in 1941 and became one of the most popular teen comics of all time. In this installment, we share some of the best and most pivotal stories from the history of the title. From the start of the famous Love Triangle to the all-new reimagining from modern, superstar creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comics 2015
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens are excited to learn about beekeeping, but when equipment goes missing, they have more than honey to harvest--they have a mystery to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023
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Summary: Rebuilding an Empire, Marvel style! As the Imperial Forces regroup from their Death Star setback, they target the new Rebel Alliance base on the ice planet Hoth. Will Darth Vader's AT -AT s find Luke Skywalker, or will a wampa get Luke first? Meanwhile, feelings run high in the galaxy's greatest love triangle, bounty hunters target Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, and bloated Jabba the Hutt lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2015
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Summary: Preparing to implant a revolutionary mini-computer into the brain of a blind boy that will enable him to see, brilliant young neurosurgeon Ali O'Day finds her efforts sabotaged by a bomber who is demanding Ali herself as a ransom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIDel Rizzo, Suzanne
Summary: "A beloved toy fox is swept away from his best friend (human girl) Emi and their mountain home. He ends up tattered and alone on a distant shore. Fox is eventually found by a kind old man and given as a gift to his frail granddaughter, Kiko. It is shown, but not necessarily explained, that Kiko has a visual impairment and is recovering from a leg injury. Here in their valley cabin, the fox is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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Summary: An exiled artist and poet goes on a quest with his housekeeper and daughter, in an effort to escape the authorities who fear that the truth of his words may lead to a rebellion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU FAMILY PROWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Alden children and their grandfather are hiking down from Flat Top when a rockslide reveals a cave with a big secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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Summary: The Alden children are trapped in their cabin by a snowstorm, but while they wait for the storm to pass, they discover the cabin is full of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022