Alessandri, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Maslen, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2006

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAS

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAS

Krans, Angela Pham

Summary: When Felix's grandmother comes from Vietnam to stay with his family in the United States, Felix realizes that he can help Grandma by teaching her English.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRA

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JE Fiction Maslen 2006

Kertell, Lynn Maslen

Summary: A companion set to the bestselling Bob Books Beginning Readers set, featuring the classic Bob Books characters and some new ones, too!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021

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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KER

Summary: 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....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Mills, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIL

Kertell, Lynn Maslen

Summary: "In Bob Books First stories you will find twelve easy-to-read and humorous books. Perfect for emerging readers, this set including kid-approved stories that progress gently through graded reading levels A, B, and C. With one-syllable words and short vowels, Bob Books First stories is a fun confidence builder, especially for kids in Kindergarten"--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KER

Summary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD

Dominguez, Angela

Summary: "Two baby giraffes meet a baby ostrich and must guess how their potential new friend is feeling"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOM

Summary: A young woman, Chiara, moves into a new apartment with her husband. She conceals her true identity as member of the Red Brigades, Italy's terrorist underground, which is currently planning to kidnap the Prime Minister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2006

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOO

Bernier-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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BER

Rose, Susan

Summary: José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Betancourt-Perez, Jessica

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BET

Patterson, James

Summary: Rafe Khatchadorian's new year at middle school is starting to look depressingly like the old one, except that art class is going well--and when he joins the flag-football team and demonstrates some talent as a running-back, he discovers a way of dealing with his bullying nemesis and teammate, Miller the Killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PAT

Summary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THA