Kaufman, Bel.
Summary: A young high school teacher relates the frustrations and challenges of teaching through fictitious memos, letters, papers, and student comments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAURobertson, David
Summary: "When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 LITRosewater, Kit
Summary: Ever since they can remember, fifth-graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates. But they'll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Maslen, Bobby Lynn
Summary: Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable. Consonant blends, endings, and a few sight words advance reading skills and create more complex stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JE Fiction Maslen 2006Cleary, Beverly.
Summary: Ramona embarks on her first day of kindergarten. It is supposed to be the greatest day of her life, but Ramona quickly learns school isn't all fun and games when she doesn't make any friends.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Audio 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CLESummary: All-American co-ed: With enrollment on the decline, girls college Mar Brynn needs notoriety to promote their school. Their target: the boys in Quinceton College's Zeta fraternity, who are publicly tarnished as "least likely to succeed". Out for revenge, Zeta plans to embarrass Mar Brynn by having one of their boys pose as a girl. Starring songstress Frances Langford and former silent Our Gang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1941
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COMFradkin, Barbara Fraser
Summary: When handyman Cedric O'Toole is set up to take the fall for a murder he didn't commit, he will need all his inventive powers to save himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRABoyack, Connor
Summary: "Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several yearrs in school beging graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are bet educated, the Tuttle family decides to embarck on a new learning adventure. Long-time educator John Taylor Gatto shares...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Libertas Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BOYEgan, Kate
Summary: "Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures! Stanley’s second grade teacher, Ms. Root, loves science, and she has an exciting surprise in store for the class: they’re getting a pet! Stanley and his classmates can’t wait to play with their adorable hamster, Cottonball, and learn all about animal life. But then Cottonball...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Korman, Gordon
Summary: "Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORSummary: When Daniel attends a family reunion with his parents, he discovers a world he hardly knew existed. Seduced by the allure of his new world, Daniel adopts the role of go-between for his glamorous Aunt Alice and his cousins Rebecca and Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALMSummary: A murderous womanizer and his latest paramour, herself unhinged by desire, embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy, and passionate forays into the dark arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLSummary: Since he was a child, the Duke has been cursed with a touch of death. Exiled to the woods, his only companions are his butler and his extremely flirty maid, Alice. Despite his feelings, he can never touch her. Say hello to the most bittersweet love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME DUKOseman, Alice
Summary: Nick and Charlie are in love. But what happens next?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC HEAConnelly, Michael
Summary: Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 LOVArmentrout, Jennifer L.
Summary: "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series.¦ The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill. The truth about Sera's plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. She will do anything to end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Box Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMIkeyamada, Gō
Summary: "The Kobayashi twins, Megumu and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Megumu has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekedns to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?"--P [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SOChou, Elaine Hsieh
Summary: "A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC CHO1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Akasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Kaguya get to the airport in time to say goodbye to Miyuki? First, she and an ally must make one last attempt to repair the rift between the Shinomiya and Shijo families. Then, Miyuki plots what to do with the leftover money from the bribe he received, Miko tries to bridge the distance between her and Yu when he goes abroad for summer break, and Chika leads everyone in one of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Miko's budding closeness with Miyuki make other interested parties jealous? Then, entertaining a cat in the student council chambers leads to awkward complications. As the war between the Shinomiyas and the Shijos heats up, Kaguya's new assistant and Mikado both fall under suspicion. And then Kaguya and Miyuki spend the night together ... alone!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022