Cook, Julia
Summary: When a classmate wins a contest, Brad brags about how he won an even bigger contest. When another student breaks his arm, Brad blabs about how he broke BOTH his arms AND his legs. Children and adults will get a real kick out of Brad's tall tales as he learns the difference between being a "pull-upper" and a "one-upper!"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Paperback, Call number: JE FIC COOSummary: A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONWilson, Karma.
Summary: Bear's animal friends come to his rescue when he becomes lost and frightened in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WilKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KADWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "The Aldens are visiting Port Elizabeth when a bad storm rolls in, knocking out the power--and leaving behind a mystery! Can the powered-down Aldens figure out what's going on?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARStaake, Bob
Summary: "On this playfully illustrated journey with Bob Staake, children and adults alike will discover an encouraging truth: our path through life is not only challenging and beautiful--it is all our own to discover and invent. 'You will walk. You will walk along a well-worn path that many people have taken--and long before you.' So begins this inspirational journey over gentle, grassy hills, through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2022
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Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki. When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf -- her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: RJ is having another bad day--but with the help of his coach, RJ learns that working as a team and sharing are skills needed not just on the soccer field, but in school and at home too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2012
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Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KELColfer, Eoin
Summary: "Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COLCook, Julia
Summary: Isabella enjoys shouting out her thoughts, ideas and feelings so much, it's earned her the nickname "Decibella!". Young readers will be entertained as she learns the "five volumes" of voice-- whisper, 6-inch, table-talk, strong speaker, and outside-- and that different situations require a different tone.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2014
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Summary: "Set in Sixties post-war Korea, [Me, then] is a...story of Su-young's life with her aunt and her family. After a series of disastrous stays in various foster homes, the five year old Su-young, an illegitimate child, a lasting stigma in traditionalist Korea, hopes to find a stable home with her aunt. Her mother works and lives at an American army base on the outskirts of Seoul and visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuan 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMNguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NguyenOdegard, Elisa Holton
Summary: The story follows a kind young boy as he demonstrates his thoughtfulness, and his theatrical skills, to help many of his culturally-diverse classmates cope with the stresses of their school day. He gently suggests eight different calming strategies to his friends to assist them in returning to mindfulness, so they may continue with a productive day. The flustered children practice the specific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Social Emo 152.4 Odegard 2020Summary: An absorbing drama based on the true account of 18th-century doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, played by Truffaut himself in a memorable performance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FRASummary: Join Darby and her friends Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too, as they teach children about problem-solving, teamwork, and imagination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FRISummary: An autistic thirteen-year-old runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAClaflin, Stacy
Summary: "He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he'll risk his life to save hers. Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister's disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAElliott, Rachel
Summary: "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded-up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Emma and her new allies have successfully taken down many of the demons of Goldy Pond. The last one standing in this demonic hunting ground is Leuvis, but he's the most powerful of them all. None of the children's tactics seem to work on him, but some unexpected last-minute help may turn the tide of the battle. Can the children of Goldy Pond finally put an end to their despair?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PROChouteau, Jordan
Summary: "In this funny, empowering tale, a little boy is afraid of the creatures hiding under his bed, behind the hamper, and in his closet every night--that is, until his parents give him a magic no-more-monsters patch that makes him invisible to all of them! Now sweet dreams couldn't come easier"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHORahman, Bahram
Summary: Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. A sensitive author's note addresses the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021