Sullivan, Deirdre
Summary: Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with new friends and old, but she is still not quite ready for the big red slide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SULKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Marisol and her best friend Jada love to ride their bikes, except when they have to ride past a dangerous beast they call Daggers, but when Daggers gets loose, Marisol unexpectedly rescues him, conquering one of her biggest fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KELMcDonald, Megan
Summary: Judy Moody is freaky for Nancy Drew, the famous girl detective from the book series. When Judy bumps into Mighty Fantaskey, she's excited to make a new friend who is also a Nancy Drew fan. Excited, that is, until she visits Mighty's house: it's big and old and creaky and spooky. It even swallows up Judy's mood ring! Can Judy muster up the courage to go back and reclaim it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MCDYee, Lisa
Summary: Excited for her family's trip to Brazil, Lea is worried about going into the ocean, but when a new friend encourages her to embrace all that Brazil has to offer, fun turns to danger and she must prove to herself, and her brother, that she is brave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2016
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Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KELO'Shaughnessy, Kate
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OS'HTahboub, Hala
Summary: "When Kevin and his friends discover a mysterious ladder, everyone wants to know what is at the top, and who gets to find out first"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard named Peppina...but she's way too scared to climb it. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KELStein, David Ezra
Summary: "Murray worries...about lots of things. He doesn't want to go out in the rain. He's scared of the barking dogs at the park. Fireworks make him jump. But gradually he learns that he can put on a raincoat. He can make new friends. He can be brave."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STESchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: As Valentine's Day approaches Charlie Brown tries to find the courage to give the Little Red-haired Girl a valentine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHTabor, Corey R.
Summary: Ladies and gentlebugs, presenting the duke of the dandelion patch, champion of truth and justice, the one, the only--Sir Ladybug! Sir Ladybug never shies away from a quest, even when he'd rather be playing a video game or baking a cake. So when a caterpillar needs rescuing from a "monster" (a hungry chickadee), Sir Ladybug and his trusty friends--his herald, a roly-poly named Pell, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TABLibenson, Terri
Summary: "The eighth book in the New York Times bestselling 'Emmie & Friends' series, told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying incident at school"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: When supernatural things start happening in the house timid Andres and his parents just moved into, next-door-neighbor Desmond Cole, eight, comes to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MIEElliott, Rebecca
Summary: Eva decides that warning all the animals in the forest about the approaching storm is a perfect project to prove herself worthy of taking the Owl Oath, but when she stops to help a lost pony and they get caught in the storm, they have to take shelter in a cave, and end up helping each other to stay brave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE ELL Book 8Freeman, Martha
Summary: Arthur Popper helps out in his family's Boulder, Colorado, junk store, Universal Trash. When it comes to ukuleles, peppermills, and rhinestones, Arthur knows what's what. When he finds a chipped teacup, Arthur realizes it is the key to solving a crime that only he knows about! With help from a supernatural sidekick, his best friend, and his annoying little sister, does Arthur have what it takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FREMaddox, Jake
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Cam loves riding BMX bikes, but he is also a careful rider--but when his new friend insists on trying out a particularly dangerous course and breaks his leg on a jump, Cam has to ride the treacherous Copper Devil trail alone in order to get help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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Summary: When 12-year-old Billy Chan finds out his parents are sending him to a language and culture camp in the middle-of-nowhere China, he can't imagine anything worse. He's not expecting to become friends with fellow campers Dylan O'Donnell, Charlotte Bell, and Liu Ling-Fei. And he's definitely not planning to meet any dragons. But when the four kids accidentally open a crack in an ancient mountain,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TSANastro, Caroline
Summary: "Amelia is shy, finding solace in fairy tales but finds the courage to make friends with her new neighbors and embark on an adventure in her new wheelchair with the help of a litte bird outside her window." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NASFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competition. But their celebration comes to an abrupt end when the Skandians' most sacred artifact, the Andomal, is stolen -- and the Herons are to blame. To find redemption they must track down the thief Zavac and recover the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC FLABardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
Summary: Caveboy loves banging his club, running really fast, and playing with his friends, but when his club breaks, he needs to find a new one, leading him to making a new friend and discovering his own bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BARKirk, Daniel
Summary: Little Pup and his friend Little Duck are afraid to go down the big slide, but when Little Duck decides to try, Little Pup musters up his courage to help his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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Summary: The story takes place in a world much like ours, but at the same time not at all like ours, in which Vlad Luxor--a capricious, vain, infantile tyrant--rules over a town with an iron fist. He's an emperor with no clothes, but woe is the person who points that out--they could wind up turned into a squirrel or lizard or who knows what! For in this world, the evil leader also has magic, which he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALHowden, Sarah
Summary: "During a special Girl Scouts trip, Darlene gets to camp out on the front lawn of the White House! But will she find the courage to show Michelle Obama her knot-tying skills?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2019