Griner, Susan
Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRISummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYMeier, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MEISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Something 2004Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALJansson, Susanne
Summary: In the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village on the edge of the mire where, once upon a time, people came to leave offerings to the gods. Biologist Nathalie came in order to study the peat bogs. But she has a secret: Mossmarken was once her home, a place where terrible things happened. She has returned at last, determined to confront her childhood trauma and find out the truth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jansson 2018Laschütza, Susanne.
Summary: Nat, a bat with unusual tastes, ventures out from his church tower home all by himself and has an encounter with Paul the dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Pub. 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LASSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIReiser, Lynn.
Summary: Puppies from one to ten are counted and sorted according to their different features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIGeisel, Theodore
Summary: The Lorax is a lovable creature who speaks for the trees, trying to stop the profit-greedy Once-ler from destroying the forest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRReiser, Lynn.
Summary: When two dogs, Whistle and Spot, play at racing and jumping, sometimes one wins and sometimes the other one does, but until Spot learns to swim, Whistle always beats him across the pond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIReiser, Lynn.
Summary: Child and cat prepare for bedtime, and suddenly the cat disappears from sight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC REIGlaser, Linda.
Summary: A child observes the arrival of spring and its effects on plants and animals. Includes suggestions for nature study projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E GLAGlaser, Linda.
Summary: A child experiences the colors and textures of fall. Includes nature activities to do during that season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket GLASummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GREAmerikaner, Susan
Summary: "Make room for Clover! When Clover's warren gets flooded in a storm, Sofia happily invites her best friend to move in with her. They love sharing a room ... at first. Sofia discovers that being a roommate is no picnic in this fun and funny Level Pre-1 Reader!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE AMEGeisert, Arthur.
Summary: Rumpus Ridge, Wisconsin, is proud to have the biggest ball of string in the world, so when they lose their treasure to a nearby town they devise a clever plan to get it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Geisert 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEIGeisert, Arthur.
Summary: Told by his parents that his light must be out at eight o'clock, a young piglet who is afraid of the dark devises an ingenious solution to the problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEICokal, Susann
Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSGeisert, Arthur.
Summary: Depicts, in wordless illustrations, how a little spilled milk led to the destruction of the pig family's house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEIMinekime, Shianne.
Summary: Tina and James Hansen are living every parent's worst nightmare--their daughter Hailey has vanished from their home. With the help of Sheriff Jamison and FBI agent, Annie Meyers, they uncover a string of disappearances leading back more than 50 years. The long battle of good and evil in Patterson is finally coming to an end; a battle fought not only by Hailey's desperate parents but by Hailey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publication Consultants 2014