Brown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROThompson, Kim Mitzo.
Summary: Learn the names of the zoo animals and practice counting, too. Listen along to the CD, and you will feel you are right there at the zoo! Read the entire story in Spanish. Then, flip over the book and read the entire story in English!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Twin Sisters IP, LLC 2007
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JN Spanish ThompsonBrown, Daniel
Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SHEBrown, Monica
Summary: En este vibrante libro ilustrado bilingüe sobre la biografía del músico Tito Puente, los lectores bailarán al ritmo de la vida de este rey del mambo. A Tito Puente le encantaba golpear ollas y sartenes cuando era niño, pero lo que realmente soñaba era tener su propia banda algún día. Desde Spanish Harlem hasta los premios Grammy, y todos los ritmos intermedios, esta es la historia real de la...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRORuiz-Flores, Lupe
Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing la raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day. But she's devastated when she learns right before the show that her partner Ernesto sprained his right ankle. She had been practicing for weeks. And now her family won't get to see her, swishing and swaying in her beautiful dress full of colorful ribbons. Lupita sadly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Aronson, Marc.
Summary: Traces the research scientist co-author's explorations in Greece and the Gobi Desert for the origins of the mythical griffin, relating the story of the ancient Scythians and the griffins that were said to have guarded their treasure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Aronson 2015Slade, Suzanne.
Summary: Discusses how a former slave and an outspoken woman, who came from two different worlds, shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 303.48 Slade 2015Bausum, Ann.
Summary: Bausum tells the story of a stray dog who becomes Sergeant Stubby--World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 BAUPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 Baker 2014Powell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BAKER POWSabelko, Rebecca
Summary: "Simone Biles is an Olympic champion. She has won seven medals, including 4 gold medals. In this fast-paced title, reluctant readers will learn about Simone's storied career."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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Summary: In this bilingual story that introduces descriptive adjectives, words for the weather, months, and a child's seasonal wardrobe, children enjoy what makes each season special.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX GIBMiller, Pat Zietlow.
Summary: Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Miller 2016Grimes, Nikki.
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction GrimesChoi, Yangsook.
Summary: After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Lee, Lyla
Summary: Mindy and her dad can't wait to compete in her school's annual family trivia night. The big prize? A year of free pizza. And she gets to be on a team with her best friend, Sally, and her family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEELee, Lyla
Summary: It's time to pick a class president, and Mindy really wants to win, and she's basing her entire campaign on snacks and being kind, so how could she not be chosen? But there is one big thing that Mindy is not sure she can do--make a speech to her class about why she would be the best pick for president. Can Mindy face her fears and show the class, and herself, that she can be the best class...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEEOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: K-3.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSBBrown, Monica
Summary: Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol -- can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX BROOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie are about to meet the fiercest warriors of all -- the soldiers of the ancient Roman legion! When the magic tree house whisks them back to a Roman army camp, they learn their mission: Be like warriors. That is easier said than done -- Roman soldiers are the best fighters in the world! When Jack and Annie find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, they're in big...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Carriger, Gail.
Summary: In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC CARGutman, Dan
Summary: Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini is not Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist who died in 1926. But Harry does live in Houdini's old New York City home, and he definitely knows everything there is to know about Houdini's life. What is he supposed to do, then, when someone starts texting him claiming that they're Houdini, communicating from beyond the grave? Respond, of course. It's hard for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GUTHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019