Manushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie, Pedro, and their mothers are going canoeing, but when the two canoes get separated Pedro gets worried that something has happened to his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANSorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCho, Kat
Summary: Instead of going to prom, Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center. She is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend Robbie Choi, who is now a K-pop superstar, returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together. But Robbie is nothing like the sweet, goofy boy she remembers-- and he comes with hordes of screaming fans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHOBruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUHautman, Pete
Summary: "David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he'll have to do better. He's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally put two thousand dollars on it. So he really needs that pizza money. Like,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE HAUAlvarez, Julia
Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROAReef, Cora
Summary: Simon gets carried away storytelling and immediately regrets announcing his plan to climb Mount Aquarius, but his friends are so excited for him that he does not have to heart to tell them the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2023
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Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAVHolm, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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Summary: Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn’t know died by suicide. A tenuous link—one text—bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KANHoffmann, Jilanne
Summary: "A narrative nonfiction story detailing the long distance that dust from the Sahel in Africa travels across the Atlantic Ocean to replenish life in the Amazon Rainforest. Told from the perspective of dust, A River of Dust takes readers on a journey through vibrantly illustrated landscapes, celebrating the power and wonder of Earth's ecosystems, and showing how these tiny particles are in fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFZayid, Maysoon
Summary: Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault anyway) and gets all the "fame" she is determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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Summary: "Accidentally sabotaging an up-and-coming local band, music fanatic Liana Sarkar makes it her mission to secretly undo the damage she's caused, but when she falls for the lead singer, she finds it harder to hide the truth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BHUMetternich, Hilary Roe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 METLevine, Laura
Summary: When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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Summary: As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARVale, Lillie
Summary: "High-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam. So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya's very public breakup with her loser boyfriend on the last day of junior year, she decides to lay low...Exhausted by Kavya and Ian's years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VALCepeda, Joe
Summary: "Rafa and his dad love to measure anything and everything-including how much Rafa's dad loves him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CEPEllis, Peter Berresford.
Summary: From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Breton - Peter Berresford Ellis has included popular myths and legends, as well as bringing to light exciting new tales which have been lying in manuscript form, untranslated and unknown to the modern general reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robinson 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 ELLRubio, Marytza K.
Summary: "For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022