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First day of school Fiction Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Hispanic Americans Fiction Hispanic Americans Juvenile fiction Langage et langues Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Language and languages Language and languages Fiction Language and languages Juvenile fiction Spanish language materials BilingualAlessandri, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALESpencer, Renè
Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BETSummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMAvant-garde, Zaila
Summary: "Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde teaches young readers about the joy of learning new words in this Step 1 leveled reader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN AVAMills, Claudia
Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILTrinchieri, Camilla
Summary: "Set in the heart of Tuscan wine country, Camilla Trinchieri's new mystery introduces Nico Doyle, a former NYPD homicide detective who's just looking for space to grieve when he finds himself pulled into a local muder investigation. Mourning the loss of his wife, Rita, former NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle moves to her hometown of Gravigna in the wine-soaked region of Chianti. Half-Italian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime, an imprint of Soho Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRIDominguez, Angela N.
Summary: "The story of two giraffes - one English-speaking and one Spanish-speaking - that overcome the language barrier to forge a friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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Summary: When José is selected for the school soccer team, his dog Feliz eagerly helps him practice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROSSummary: A middle-aged man living with his elderly mother finds the best way to pay for their debts is to take care of the building manager's mother during the biggest festival of the year. Soon he finds himself with not two but four mothers to keep fed and happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIDBui, Hanh
Summary: A child living in a Vietnamese refugee camp learns their first word in English with a little help from their teacher and grandmother in this heart-warming picture book based on the author's childhood. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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Summary: Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WINDavidson, Leslie A.
Summary: "Children around the world give thanks to the sun, moon, wind, lightning and other natural elements in this poetic board book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAV BOARDDominguez, Angela
Summary: "Two baby giraffes meet a baby ostrich and must guess how their potential new friend is feeling"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOMChild, Brenda J.
Summary: "When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHIBlasco, Serena
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series BlascoBernier-Grand, Carmen T.
Summary: Six children are at the park, one group speaks only English and the other only Spanish, but soon they learn to communicate through playing, dancing, and singing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERRose, Susan
Summary: José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROSIsadora, Rachel
Summary: Carmelita loves to greet everyone in her colorful neighborhood. There are people from so many different cultures! They all like to say hello too, so now Carmelita can say hello in Spanish, English, French, Japanese, and many other languages. And her dog, Manny? Well, he seems to understand everyone, and gives a happy "Woof!" wherever he goes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOARD ISABruchac, Joseph
Summary: "The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRUSayler, Britt
Summary: "Every night, a giant pit sucked and slurped up everything... And every night, it slurped me up, too... For one young child, nothing has been the same since losing their father. Words won't fit together. Playing soccer is no longer fun. And every night brings the same terrible dream... a black, slurping pit that looks just like the period their father taught about as a grammar teacher. Periods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAYMaslen, Bobby Lynn
Summary: Twelve books carefully organized in presentation of short vowels and single consonants. Introduces the alphabet (except Q) with very basic three-letter words and short vowels.
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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 MASContents: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936): Naked life (La vita nuda) -- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920): The crucifix (Il crocifisso) -- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973): The ash of distant battles (La cenere delle battaglie) -- Dino Buzzati (1906-1972): An important man (Un uomo importante) -- Alberto Moravia (1907-1990): My name is Alice I am a spinning top (Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola) -- Tommaso Landolfi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 FIC GRELai, Remy
Summary: "Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019