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Summary: "Aspiring artist Kacie spends most of her time on Mercer Street with her best friend Nisha, but one day Nisha and her family are gone, and Kacie struggles to understand the changes happening to her street and neighborhood, and what they mean for her life."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: When Lily invites her friends to volunteer at the community garden, they learn how to dig, plant seeds, and patiently wait for their plants to grow. Includes instructions for growing snap peas at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2018
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Summary: Following the one clue her friend Sylvie left behind before she went missing, Ema seeks to infiltrate the mysterious Midnight Guild to rescue Sylvie, despite a peculiar fear of shadows and the ability to predict events before they happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOOBovis, Ali
Summary: Sylvie can't wait to raise money for the animal shelter for her Make a Difference Day project, but when her frenemy, Camilla, and Sylvie's foster puppy create obstacles along the way, Sylvie discovers there is more than one way to make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOVLook, Lenore.
Summary: When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOOBooth, Coe
Summary: After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOOBooth, Anne
Summary: With so many animals to rescue and friends to help, Betty hasn't perfected her fairy skills, but when the fairy ball arrives, Betty's friends return her gifts of kindness in hopes that the King and Queen will chose her as the Fairiest Fairy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint Candlewick Press 2016
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Summary: Now widowed, Josslyn seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn't give her: dominance. Lonely, searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she's looking for at an exclusive club that caters to people indulging in their most hedonistic fantasies. She never imagined that what she'd find would be the one man who's long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANBurks, James (James R.)
Summary: When best friends Bird and Squirrel find a treasure map, adventure calls once again. Squirrel is worried about the dangers ahead, but this time, Red and Birdie aren't going to miss out on the fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: "Gator has just never seemed to fit in with the other neighborhood pets--probably because he has a nasty hait of eating the other neighborhood pets. Flushed down the toilet as just a little snapper, Gator spends his days alone in the sewers. On the streets above, little Gabby has never seemed to fit in with the other kids in town. She'd rather collect bottles and practice her tuba than gossip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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Summary: "As the days grow shorter and the air becomes colder, the spring birds fly south for winter--except for one nightingale with an injured wing. Unable to fly, the nightingale worries about how to prepare for weather it has never experienced before. Luckily, the forest animals who are used to the frosty conditions help the nightingale survive as its wing heals."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANFossey, Brooke
Summary: "An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSClanton, Ben
Summary: Friends Narwhal and Jelly find their inner superheroes and share adventures while exploring the ocean together. Presented in comic book format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products LLC 2022
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Summary: Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALWibberley, Emily
Summary: When two high school students with different ideas about their futures meet while touring colleges, they come to value each other's point of view, and an unexpected romance unfolds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WIBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIBWhite, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
Summary: Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WHICook, Eileen
Summary: On a school trip to London that includes her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, Kim meets risk-taker Nicki, who proposes a diabolical deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COOWoods, Eva
Summary: "Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted--and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCook, Julia
Summary: Lonely Brown does not get along with the other colored pencils in the box, who are all friends, until he learns that the others do not like him because he is not friendly, and that to have friends he must like himself and act like a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC COOWoods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
Summary: Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a Black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOMcGuire Woods, Molly
Summary: When Princess Courtney is accidentally sent to pop-star camp, and pop star Erika ends up at princess camp, the girls work together to save both camps in a crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: When the son of the new manager of the ski resort starts a snowboard cross team and will not allow girls to join, Brian and Hannah try to think of a way to change his mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2008