Ireland, Meredith
Summary: Twelve-year-old, Korean American adoptee Emma Davidson has a problem. Two problems. Okay, 1. She has a crush on her best friend, Avangeline, that she hasn't been able to share. 2. Avangeline now has to move out of their town because her parents are getting a divorce. 3. Oh, and Emma is a secret witch who can't really control her powers. It's a complicated summer between sixth and seventh grade....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC IREMeadows, Michelle
Summary: Maxie embarks on a quest to collect five charms for her magic spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR Orange MeadowsKibuishi, Kazu
Summary: Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers of the Cielis Guard in a fight to stop him, but Max stands in their way. And when she seeks information from the Voice of her Amulet, she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC KIBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC KIBWells, Tina
Summary: Eleven-year-old June must juggle friendship, first love, and the fallout from a newly discovered family secret involving the entire town--all while under a truth-telling spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WELDíaz, Junot
Summary: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuké--the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIASummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie decides to trap the tooth fairy to earn money to build a burglar alarm trap.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLSummary: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOVShirahama, Kamome
Summary: In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with the gift for magic. She's resigned to her un-magical life, until a traveling magician passes through her village, and Coco learns what what everybody "knows" might not be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC WITReid, C. L.
Summary: Best friends Emma and Izzie take a pottery class together and make a new friend. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REIShirahama, Kamome
Summary: "Cast yourself into the world of witches as Qifrey chases after the dark mysteries of the Brimmed Caps! With some quick thinking and ingenuity, Coco and her fellow classmates use their growing magic skills to save some locals from a grim fate. But this triumph nearly turns to tragedy as the Knights Moralis threaten the young witches with severe punishment for disturbing the natural order of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WITStine, R. L.
Summary: Soon after he purchases a dusty can of monster blood at the funky old toy store near his great-aunt's house, Evan begins to notice some strange things happening to the people around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1992
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STIWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAMuchnik, Lisa
Summary: "Deep in the jungle, a little panda and his friends are doing yoga. They stretch, reach, and balance. They're really rocking it! But . . . Little Panda feels sad because he doesn't have beautiful spots, fancy feathers, or bright colors like his friends. He's just plain black and white. Help Little Panda discover his radiant inner beauty! A journey through the 7 chakras will leave children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2023
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE MUCSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEFussner, Kate
Summary: "Love at first sight isn't a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it's fate. Olivia is a capital-P Poet, and Eden thinks she wants to be a musician one day, but for now she's just the new girl. And then Eden shows up to Poetry Club and everything changes. Eden isn't out, and she has rules for dating Olivia: don't call. Don't tell her friends. And don't let anyone know they're together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUSFoxe, Steve
Summary: Grandma has taken Baby to a serene location overlooking Carnivore Cove to practice meditating. Baby is doing his best when--AWWW! A cute little bunny slug hops up to him. He wants to focus and meditate but he keeps getting distracted because teeny tiny cute things are his absolute weakness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FOXLehrhaupt, Adam
Summary: "Shark can go. Can clam go? Clam can sit. Is this it? Do not fear. Shark is here!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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Summary: As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIBradman, Tony
Summary: After the Goldilocks break-in, Mr. Bear decides to install an alarm system--but when it keeps going off for no reason, Mrs. Bear takes control of the situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRAAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACEAdams, Ellery
Summary: "When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic . . . As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ADAGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020