Munsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Alessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALEQuach, Michelle
Summary: Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper-- until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len just seems more like a leader. When Eliza's frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hofmann-Maniyar, Ariane
Summary: "Cuando la madre de Nieve dice que se mudarán a un nuevo y emocionante lugar, Nieve no está tan segura. Le gusta su casa y sus amigos, y la diversión que tienen juntos. El viaje dura una eternidad y su nuevo hogar es muy extraño. Todo es diferente: el clima, la comida, la gente y el idioma. Nieve intenta hacer amigos, pero todos parecen estar demasiado ocupados y preocupados como para prestarle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH HOFBorba, Adam
Summary: Seventh grader Noah tries to avoid the worst day ever and help his future self win his eighth grade class election using time travel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BORHo, Joanna
Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOVanderpool, Clare.
Summary: "Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VANThaler, Mike
Summary: "Spring break is here! With no school or homework for a week, Hubie can finally read his pile of comic books. But instead, mom tells him to pack his suitcase. They're going to visit Grandma. Hubie has no choice, he has to go. Spring break must might break Hubie!"-- Page [4] cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Yang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Miller, Kayla
Summary: Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dean, James
Summary: Pete the Cat: Pete's big lunch: "Pete the Cat makes one giant, tasty sandwich for lunch. But what's the fun in eating lunch without your friends?" -- Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Rowling, J. K.
Summary: After a terrible summer with the Dursleys, Harry is ready to begin the fourth course of study at Hogwarts, the famous school of magic and sorcery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: Spanish J468 RowWyatt, Merrill
Summary: Seventh-graders Sloane and Amelia are devastated to be paired for a research project about long-lost jewels, but soon they are finding clues hidden for nearly a century--and realize they are being used.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYAMills, Claudia
Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILQuin, Tegan
Summary: "Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Stecher, Leah
Summary: When twelve-year old J.P. discovers a magical treehouse that sends her three days forward in time, she uses the portal to skip all the worst parts of middle school, despite the consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STESantamaria, Sendy
Summary: Yenebi, her sister Melanie, and mom drive to school every morning across the US-Mexico border.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SANZhao, Katie
Summary: Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.--Provided by Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHAFong, Debbie
Summary: Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents' decision to move to a new town. In an effort to get her mind off of the troubles at home, Pia goes on a bus tour with a family friend, stopping at weird and wacky roadside attractions. The final destination: a mysterious underground lake. The locals say it has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 FONClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Calonita, Jen
Summary: Gilly and her friends must prepare for a giant invasion after Jack plants magic beans, earning him a spot in Fairy Tale Reform School and reminding Gilly how good it feels to be bad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series CalonitaCalonita, Jen
Summary: When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series CalonitaLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: When one of the time-traveling crew is running for student-body president at Manchester Middle School, Rush Revere takes them back in history to witness the election and leadership of our first three presidents.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD J LIMPiñeiro, Victor
Summary: When Finistere's stern acting principal, Ms. Vlad, invites Mr. Dragon to be her vice-principal, the students immediately adore him, but unbeknownst to them, he is nefariously planning to take over the world, and it is up to Javi to stop him before it is too late.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2022