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African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction Baseball Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Curry, Parker Childhood and youth Fiction Curry, Parker Childhood and youth Juvenile fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Picture booksAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 42Curry, Parker
Summary: While playing dress-up, Parker and her siblings imagine endless possibilities for future careers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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Summary: After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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Summary: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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Summary: "Little Shaq doesn't love trying new things, especially if he might not be very good at them. So when his class is assigned projects for the school's upcoming art show, he's not sure that his skills will transfer from the basketball court to the art studio. Can Little Shaq find the confidence to embrace his own style and create a piece for the show?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE O'NERobinson, Sharon
Summary: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROBRyan, Pam Muǫz.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RYAYolen, Jane
Summary: In Amherst, Massachusetts, in spring, 1834, young Emily Dickinson uses scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and shares it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2020Curry, Parker
Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CUREngle, Margarita
Summary: A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGGourley, Robbin.
Summary: From the whippoorwill's call on the first day of spring through the first snowfall, Edna and members of her family gather fruits, berries, and vegetables from the fields, garden, and orchard on their Virginia farm and turn them into wonderful meals. Includes facts about the life of Edna Lewis, a descendant of slaves who grew up to be a famous chef, and five recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE GouJeter, Derek
Summary: "Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JETMcDonnell, Patrick
Summary: Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction McDonnell 2011Ormsbee, Kathryn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ORMAbrams, Stacey
Summary: When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRArato, Rona.
Summary: In a story based on the life of the author's husband, little Paul and his family, Hungarian Jews, are sent to Bergen-Belsen, survive many hardships, are put on a train to nowhere, and rescued by American soldiers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARAJeter, Derek
Summary: While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JETLawton, Wendy.
Summary: While making the pilgrimage from Holland to America in 1620 with other English Separatists, teenaged Mary Chilton endures many hardships that test her faith in God.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWShabazz, IIyasah
Summary: "In Charlestown State Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares while surviving life in a place unfit for humans, Malcolm drifts through his days, picking fights with fellow inmates and avoiding his family. But when he's introduced to the prison library, Malcolm realizes that the key to his freedom was within him all along. Now his dreams are not just...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SHAFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Summary: Melvin the Mouth can not resist making a variety of strange noises as he imagines himself as a dragon, a shark, or perhaps a train--but his talent gets him into trouble at school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2017