Patterson, James
Summary: Opinionated siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian debate a variety of topics relating to the ups and downs of middle school life and encourage readers to add their own contributions through write-in games and activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2014
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Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORTulien, Sean
Summary: Three clever billy goats find themselves trapped in a video game, confronting the Hillside Castle run by a monster troll--and they have to use their new superpowers to get past the castle to the green field of grass, and lunch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARPark, Barbara
Summary: When her kindergarten class has Job Day, Junie B. goes through much confusion and excitement before deciding on the "bestest" job of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Summary: "Amelia Morris's Wildcat is an uproariously funny, surprisingly touching story of one woman's journey through motherhood and female friendship, in a society that plays fast and loose with information. New mother, aspiring writer, and former shopgirl Leanne has lost her way. As she struggles with both her grief and the haze of motherhood, it also becomes clear that her best friend, the default...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORPark, Barbara
Summary: It's almost the end of the school year, and Room Nine is taking a field trip to a farm! There's lots of fun farm stuff there. Like a real actual barn. And a real actual farmer. There's even real alive animals you can pet! Only, where's the gift shop? That's what Junie B. Jones would like to know. Surely no one would want Junie B. to go home empty-handed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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Summary: Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. But adventures aren't any fun by yourself, and so enters Froggy, Turtles, Beaver, Racoons, and Duck. These very different animals take off downstream, but they didn't know they needed one another until thankfully, the river came along.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Snappsy the alligator wants to spend a quiet evening reading, but a pesky chicken who insists he is Snappsy's best friend will not leave him alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALFalatko, Julie
Summary: It is field trip day to the city museum, and while Stewart expects a boring day of facts and learning, Waldo and Sassy are looking forward to lunch; then they find that the dinosaur room is full of tempting bones, the astronaut boots are good for chewing, and one of the dioramas features a squirrel on a sidewalk, but the highlight is the delicatessen--if only Waldo and Sassy's disguise can fool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FALLangsdorf, Julie
Summary: A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novel. The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the houses that surround it. When owner Nick Cox cuts down Allison and Ted Millers' precious red maple--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANSchumacher, Julie
Summary: The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members . Once more into the breach... Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHSternberg, Julie
Summary: "Ten-year-old Celie's grandmother has moved in with her family, and Granny's forgetfulness is starting to worry Celie. In the meantime, she can tell her parents are keeping secrets, but she can't talk to her best friend Lula or her sister Jo, because they're both keeping secrets, too! Why is Lula not sharing with Celie? Who is Jo texting all the time? And what is Celie supposed to do when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STESwenson, Jamie
Summary: A dog and a duck get together to play an unusual game of fetch in the park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SWEHarris, Neil Patrick
Summary: "Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: "Meet the Hound Heroes: fearless Captain Chihuahua, the big-hearted Great, Great Dane, super-speedy Poodle Girl, cyborg pup Power Pug, and the lovable yet irritating Super Sheep Dog. Together they make up a crack team of earth's furriest heroes! In this first adventure, the Hound Heroes' origin story is revealed when a spaceship crashes in their backyard, giving them superpowers! But they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college, they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now, for reasons they're still not discussing, they don't. They broke up five months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HENCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HENHämäläinen, Karo
Summary: Three cell phones ring in an opulent London suite. The calls go unanswered, because their recipients are dead. Earlier that night, four old friends and lovers meet for a reunion dinner. It's been ten years since the host, Robert, who made millions by way of unethical (but not illegal) interest rate manipulation, has seen Mikko, an investigative journalist feared by corrupt financiers and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017