Maddox, Jake
Summary: Recently resettled in America, Adnan Zakaria is a Syrian refugee whose skateboarding ability is the only thing that allows him to make a connection with the other kids in his neighborhood--but when his skateboard disappears and turns up in the possession of a local troublemaker Adnan will have to out-skate his foe in order to win it back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: When a young girl has to move countries and start at a new school, her fear tells her to be alone and afraid. How can she hope to make friends if she doesn't understand anyone? Surely no one else feels the same way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2018
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Summary: "Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! In the city where Leon lives, superheroes--and supervillains--are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: When the girls split up during spring break, Pru must run a children's rodeo by herself on the range, Abigail is at odds with her fancy cousin Ariella, and Lucky worries that her dad and new stepmom may want to move away from Miradero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "Told in rhyming text, Dog and Frogs are enjoying riding a log in the pond, but then Hog comes along and is not willing to share the log, or the lunch Dog has made. Hog wants it all, so Dog and Frog need to teach Hog a lesson about friendship and sharing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMBurks, James (James R.)
Summary: When best friends Bird and Squirrel find a treasure map, adventure calls once again. Squirrel is worried about the dangers ahead, but this time, Red and Birdie aren't going to miss out on the fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: Frank likes peace and quiet. He likes his tent, his pencil, and writing in his secret notebook. Bean likes noise. He likes his bus, his trumpet -- toot, toot! -- and making music. Loud music. But Bean is missing something: he does not have words. What will happen if Frank shares his words with Bean? With a laugh-out-loud narrative by Jamie Michalak, author of the Joe and Sparky series, and Bob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: Natalie has never felt that she's enough -- athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought -- now she's not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "Gator has just never seemed to fit in with the other neighborhood pets--probably because he has a nasty hait of eating the other neighborhood pets. Flushed down the toilet as just a little snapper, Gator spends his days alone in the sewers. On the streets above, little Gabby has never seemed to fit in with the other kids in town. She'd rather collect bottles and practice her tuba than gossip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2020
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Summary: When two of her Neptunia relay team members are injured and unable to swim in the thirteen-year-olds' race, Cora presses her friends Rachel and Shyanna into service--but when the team's lucky Sea Lion statue disappears Cora fears sabotage and sets out to find the guilty party, and her chief suspect is a merboy on the rival Titania team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GURDean, James
Summary: Pete the Cat: Pete's big lunch: "Pete the Cat makes one giant, tasty sandwich for lunch. But what's the fun in eating lunch without your friends?" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "Houndsley has to figure out what to say about Catina's seventy-four-chapter memoir, and Catina tries to find the right words of comfort for Houndsley after his cooking contest fiasco" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Little Worm finds a song stuck in his head--and learns that his friends all have songs of their own to listen to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: Alex Cross knows it's only a matter of time before his son finds his way into more trouble. When Ali and his friends witness a crime, Alex wants Ali to stay away from the investigation. But Ali can't do that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director of the FBI keeps texting you for help ... What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country? If you're Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both. Florian is twelve years old and has just moved to Washington. He's learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. It's a technique he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: It is Shyanna's long-awaited, all-important thirteenth birthday, but nothing is going right--and when Cora's baby sister Jewel gets trapped in a fishing net, Shyanna is the only one small enough to get inside the net and rescue her at the risk of being turned into a human forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: Houndsley and Catina are sad, but they discover how first-rate friends can brighten even the saddest days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Spotlight 2023