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Bell, Kristen

Summary: What is a purple person? Great question. I mean, really great! Because purple people always ask really great questions. They bring their family, friends, and communities together, and they speak up for what's right. They are kind and hardworking, and they love to laugh (especially at Grandpa's funny noises)! A purple person is an everyday superhero! How do you become one? That's the fun part!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEL

Rissman, Rebecca

Summary: When Houston fifth-grader Audrey's ingenuity helps the Apollo 11 astronauts during their 1969 Moon landing, her dream of becoming a NASA scientist one day, despite sexism, seems possible.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RIS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIS

Oseman, Alice

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick's even found the courage to come out to his mum. But coming out isn't just something that happens once - there's Nick's older brother, and a school trip to Paris, not to mention all the other friends and family, and life can be hard, even with someone who loves you by your side. As their feelings get...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder Children's Books 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 OSE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HEA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC HEA

McDaniel, Breanna J.

Summary: "A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCD

Arias, John Manuel

Summary: "In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARI

Salmieri, Daniel

Summary: "Ava's world is full of opposites: colorful sneakers on a gray sidewalk, thick books made up of thin sheets of paper, and dreams of huge spaces in her small head. Together, these opposites depict a full and impactful life, as Ava moves from girl to student to scientist, from daughter to mother to grandmother. While years pass and some things change, there is even more that is constant in this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAL

Mauleón, Daniel

Summary: Determined to be a great baseball player like others in his family, Fernando needs their help to regain his confidence after his coach tells him to steal a base and he fails. Includes discussion questions, information about baseball, and glossary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAD

Steel, Danielle

Summary: After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are the best of friends. When they and two other local...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it's easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic Wintermoon ski trip. But with this year's trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier's adult children find themselves reuniting in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Steel, Danielle

Summary: "Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018

Summary: It's not easy for a boy to grow up with ten sisters. It's a constant battle not to succumb to their various plans for him. To maintain his own identity as the Man with a Plan, it's important to stay true to himself--even when being pulled in ten different directions. Lincoln Loud explores middle school life while Lori is working on her backswing at Fairway University, but what is Leni, Luna,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Mazur, Grace Dane

Summary: The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAZ

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZ

Jensen, Danielle L.

Summary: Her life in danger for meddling in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire, Lydia flees to the far side of the Endless Seas. Killian is Marked by the God of War, but his gifts fail him when the realm under the dominion of the Corrupter invades Mudamora. With Mudamora falling beneath the armies of the Corrupter, Lydia and Killian strike a bargain to save those they love most....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEN

Reynolds, Jason

Summary: Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes, like his parents and two best friends, stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he's actually... Stuntboy! But his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. His...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC REY

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