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Eggers, Dave

Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018

Hale, Nathan

Summary: "The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2023

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Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe

Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Thompson, Kim Mitzo.

Summary: In What should I wear?, you will learn about the kinds of clothes people wear for different occasions.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Twin Sisters IP, LLC 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JN Spanish Thompson

Faruqi, Saadia

Summary: While her parents are out to dinner, a bored Yasmin decides to try on some of her mother's clothes, including her new shalwar kameez, which gets ripped--but with the help of Nana, Nani, and a glue-gun, the garment gets fixed, and Yasmin puts on an impromptu fashion show when her parents get home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

Bui, Hanh

Summary: A debut picture book about a little girl who connects to her Vietnamese heritage when she accidentally rips her late grandmother's áo dái.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUI

De Alvarado, Aracely

Summary: The Mexican skeleton Catrina has been invited to a Day of the Dead dance, and she's searching for just the right outfit to wear. She pulls her Aunt María's dress from a dusty chest, but it has a stain! There's a skirt made of fine cloth, but it looks like a dusty old drape. Purple shoes that don't fit, a pair of pants that are too short and a blouse missing a button what will she wear? Finally,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE A

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE A

Hoffman, Sarah

Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOF

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOF

Rusu, Meredith

Summary: A retelling of the classic story emphasizing the role of honesty in exposing the fraud of the two thieves and their invisible clothes. With questions and guidelines for parents and educators.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 RUS

Fenske, Jonathan

Summary: After being told no drama and to put on his pajamas, the dinosaur is unimpressed and romps around the house undressed since human clothes are much too small for such a mighty dinosaur.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021

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Gutta, Razeena Omar

Summary: "When her huge collection of hijabs and accessories gets way out of control, Hana comes up with a clever plan for sharing her talents and possessions with her community"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2022

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Ostrom, Melissa

Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OST

Murray, Lily

Summary: At the Fabulous Fashion Store, a young girl tries on an assortment of dresses, from furry and lacy to swishy and floaty, but what she really wants is a dress with pockets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2022

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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 ALE

Gallico, Paul

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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Raúl the Third

Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Willems, Mo

Summary: Wilbur, a naked mole rat who likes to wear clothes, is forced to go before the wise community elder, who surprises the other naked mole rats with his pronouncement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Wil

Khan, Hena

Summary: Grandma wears it clasped under her chin. Aunty pins hers up with a beautiful brooch. Jenna puts it under a sun hat when she hikes. Zara styles hers to match her outfit. As a young girl observes six very different women in her life who each wear the hijab in a unique way, she also dreams of the rich possibilities of her own future, and how she will express her own personality through her hijab....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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Burling, Alexis

Summary: Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 BUR

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Harris, Duchess

Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HAR

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR

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