Flowers, Luke
Summary: Told in rhyme, Moby Shinobi tries to help out the construction workers building a house, but as usual his ninja skills just create chaos--until he saves a puppy that has gotten stuck in wet concrete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FLOSummary: Verging on adolescence, Joe finds himself more and more aggravated by his dad's attempts to control his life. Declaring freedom, Joe and his best buddy Patrick, along with an odd kid called Biaggio, escape to the woods, where they construct a house, just for them, with no parents or responsibility. There they discover that they are in control of their destinies, all alone out in the forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERKim, Cecil.
Summary: "The three pig sisters begin building their home, cautiously avoiding the wolf. When two sisters eat sleeping berries and fall victim to the wolf, the sisters work together to teach the wolf a lesson. Realizing the wolf is just old and hungry, the sisters and wolf work to make a farm and together grow fruits and vegetables"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2015
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Summary: Young fans are invited to help Maisy with a busy construction project in a chunky board book that incorporates interactive features, from a turn-wheel to sliders, that mimic the work of a dump truck, cement mixer, and other building vehicles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD COUSummary: An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STIButler, Nickolas
Summary: "In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan to finish building a home against an impossible deadline"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTBean, Jonathan
Summary: A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEASuen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Suen 2003Haslett, Adam.
Summary: At the heart of the story lies a test of wills between an amtibious young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired history teacher, Charlotte Graves, who has suddenly begun to hear her two dogs speaking to her in the voices of Cotton Mather and Malcolm X. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASHerman, Gail.
Summary: Robby, a young boy, moves into a new house and watches an old house being torn down and a new apartment building going up in its place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Children's Books 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Herman 2006Suen, Anastasia.
Summary: A family helps build their new house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SUEDavis, Eleanor
Summary: "Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAVMoore, Inga.
Summary: Two Little Pigs whose small homes in the woods have been accidentally destroyed by Bear and Moose decide to build a house they can all share, and with the help of Beaver Builders they soon have a fine new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011