De Regil, Tania
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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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE RMaddox, 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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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADNicholas, Jamar
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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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NICDeutsch, Stacia
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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1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC DEUTrasler, Janee
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIORiordan, Rick.
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIOSumner, Jamie
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 SUMSumner, Jamie
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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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: "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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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BURGurtler, Janet
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 GURKnowles, Johanna
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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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNOPatterson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATDean, James
Summary: Pete invites his friends over, but when he finds that his tree house is not big enough for everyone, they work together to build a fun place that can house everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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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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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE HOWGurtler, Janet
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
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Summary: The Backstagers want to put on the best show their town's ever seen but, when one of the actors goes missing, the Backstagers must band together to save their comrade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TYNGurtler, Janet
Summary: Rachel is new to the Kingdom of Neptunia, and she has two secrets--she is half human which only her friend Shyanna knows, and her boy friend is a human boy, Owen, who does not know know she is a mermaid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GURGurtler, Janet
Summary: The Spirit Squads that represent the different castles are an important part of the Kingdom of Neptunia, and Cora and Shyanna are delighted to be chosen--but their friend Rachel was left out, and when Cora finds out why, she is forced to make a big decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: Rachel is worried that she has done something to upset her human boyfriend, Owen, because lately he has not come to visit her in Neptunia--but it turns out that the truth could put an end to their relationship completely.
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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 GURVrettos, Adrienne Maria
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VREFox, Janet S.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021