Sanders, Dori
Summary: After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1990
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Summary: In this stunning novel, Dori Sanders tells a story of black-white relationships like no other ever written, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl who is bound to become one of the most apppealing and memorable characters in literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 1990
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Doi, Kaya
Summary: Two young girls take a bicycle ride through the forest where they find a cafe to have tea and coffee, a bakery to enjoy a snack, and a hotel where they join in a concert with forest animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2016
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Summary: Cork the muskrat wants his best friend Fuzz, a possum, to visit his home, but first he must teach Fuzz to swim and not be afraid of the water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE CHAKleber, Dori
Summary: Joey loves things that fold: maps, bed, accordions, you name it. When a classmate's mother turns a plain piece of paper into a beautiful origami crane, his eyes pop. Maybe he can learn origami, too. But it's going to take practice - on his homework, the newspaper, the thirty-eight dollars in his mother's purse . . Enough! No more folding! How can Joey become an origami master if he can't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Kleber 2016Demi.
Summary: A poor young boy in China yearns for wealth and power, until a magician gives him a magic pillow that brings dreams of what would happen if his wishes came true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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Summary: Although Cork the muskrat is short and likes to find things and Fuzz the possum is tall and likes to keep things, the pair remain best friends even after Fuzz finds Cork's lost stone and decides to keep it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHAElys, Dori
Summary: On a snowy day, children and their dogs bundle up to go outside to play in a winter wonderland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ELYDemi.
Summary: Ping, a painter of dragons--of which he is secretly afraid--is challenged to seek the truth, find the truth, and dare to be true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMDemi.
Summary: Two rascals sell a vain Chinese emperor an invisible suit of clothes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McElderry Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEMSummary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETBijan, Donia
Summary: "When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIJElys, Dori
Summary: "Flit along with bugs of all kinds and reassure little ones that they're loved through wordplay and so moth love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ELYArcher, Dosh
Summary: On the eve of the Battle of the Bands, Vinnie "The Crash" McLaren's best drumsticks are stolen, and it is up to Detective Paw and Patrol Officer Prickles to determine which of Vinnie's neighbors is the thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ARCCasey, Donis
Summary: Boynton Oklahoma's Alafair Tucker finds time while caring for relatives sick with the Spanish flu to investigate the deaths of two neighbors. With death so commonplace, most have assumed that influenza was the cause, but Alafair suspects foul play. Without the aid of the only witness, a young girl stunned into silence, It is up to Alafair and the new town doctor to discover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASDorf, Fran.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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Summary: "In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSChaconas, Dori
Summary: A possum and a muskrat become friends despite their many differences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR PURPLE CHAChaconas, Dori
Summary: A cumulative, rhyming tale of a slamming door which wakes a cat, setting into motion an absurd chain of events and resulting in chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E CHAElys, Dori
Summary: Hey now, Little Man, show me what you're all about!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ELYCasey, Donis
Summary: The U.S. has finally entered the First World War and scheduled the first draft lottery. No one in Boynton, Oklahoma, is unaffected by the clash between rabid pro-war, anti-immigrant "patriots" and anti-conscription socialists, who are threatening an uprising rather than submit to the draft. Alafair Tucker is caught in the middle when her brother, a union organizer for the Industrial Workers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOALinke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINMin, Dolki
Summary: "The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023