Barnes, Laura T.
Summary: Ernest, a miniature donkey, wants to be taller, thinking that this will impress his friends. In the end he learns that what he is on the inside is what is important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnesyard Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BARBarnes, Laura T.
Summary: The search for a way for Ernest to scratch his itch leads to an amusing barnyard adventure and the beginning of a beautiful new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnesyard Books 2002
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Summary: A lonely miniature donkey thinks he has finally found a friend when a show horse comes to share his pasture. The horse, however, wants nothing to do with the donkey. Ernest's persistence wins in the end and Twist learns the meaning and value of friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnesyard Books 1999
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Summary: When the old draft horse Chester falls in the snow on Christmas Eve, Ernest and Chester's other animal friends need a great deal of determination to help him get up again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnesyard Books 2003
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E BarJortner, Maura
Summary: "After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JORFriedman, Laurie B.
Summary: "Amanda Adams has always dreamed of running for class president. Her mom is a member of Congress and her dad is a political strategist who manages her mother's campaigns. Politics is in her DNA. She has the perfect VP in mind for the school ticket: her best friend Meghan Hart. But when Amanda finds out that Meghan has political ambitions of her own, these two best friends suddenly find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRILacera, Megan
Summary: A group of diverse kids turn to the mythical monsters from their respective cultures to help them save the only home they have ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LACTamani, Liara
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMCuevas, Mayra
Summary: Neither Malena nor Ruby expected to be leaders of their high school's dress code rebellion. Meanwhile, the girls have to face their own insecurities and biases, as well as the ups and downs of their newfound friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUEHorne, Maggie
Summary: "Seventh grader Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She needs to focus on winning the school-wide speech competition and beating her nemesis, the popular and smart Ella Quinn, after last year's embarrassing hyperbole/hyperbowl mishap that cost her first place. But when Hazel discovers Ella is being harassed by golden boy Tyler Harris, she has to choose between winning and doing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOMHoban, Russell.
Summary: When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOBRussell, Ella
Summary: "Stuck inside one wet afternoon, a group of friends are bored and miserable--until a pink glow leads them to discover a mysterious treasure chest and everything changes! Grey is for rainy days, but PINK is for all kinds of fun -- bows and buttons, yes, but also aliens and astronauts, dancers and dragons! In a parade of exuberance that celebrates all things pink, one surly fur ball stands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUSBoyne, John
Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOYRussell, Rachel Renée
Summary: Collects the first four "Dork Diaries" books that follow middle school student Nikki Maxwell through life at her new school, Westchester Country Day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Dog and Rabbit are both a little lonely and in search of a friend, but Rabbit is initially too distracted by the bunny he sees through the window to notice that Dog is just the friend that he has been looking for"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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Summary: Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperChildren'sAudio 1990
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE BARHoban, Russell.
Summary: Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOBBoyne, John
Summary: Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BoyVasconcelos, José Mauro de
Summary: "When Zezé grows up, he wants to be a poet in a bow tie. For now the precocious young boy entertains himself by playing clever pranks on the residents of his Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, stunts for which his parents and siblings punish him severely. Lately, with his father out of work, the beatings have become harsher. Zezé's only solace comes from his time at school, his hours secretly spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASRussell, Rachel Renee.
Summary: When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUSRussell, Rachel Renee.
Summary: Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2010
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series RussellRussell, Rachel Renee.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to be herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RUSRussell, Rachel Renée.
Summary: After a bump on the head in gym class on April Fool's Day, Nikki has a wild dream in which she, her BFFs Chloe and Zoey, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie all end up playing the roles of some familiar classic fairy tale characters. Of course, the stories don't go quite as expected--because they each have a very special Dork Diaries spin!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RUSHopper, Laura
Summary: After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017