Dadey, Debbie
Summary: Pearl has always dreamed of being famous: the star-studded stage, the sea flowers, the applause! So when she finds out that her third grade class is performing The Little Human, she just knows she ll get the leading role. Especially since world-renowned merstar Angelfish Molie is judging the tryouts! But in a shocking turn of events, Pearl s best friend, Wanda, gets cast as the little human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2019
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Dadey 2019Questlove
Summary: Seventh grader Rahim Reynolds loves testing out the gadgets invented by his brilliant friend Kasia Collins. First there were the X-ray glasses and all the trouble they caused. Now there's the new cell phone she built for his birthday, even though his parents won't let him have one. But Rahim is excited to use the phone to search for videos of his favorite old-school rap group. What he doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC QUESchusterman, Michelle
Summary: The girls in the coding club are preparing their voting app for the school talent show, but when they discover Erin is secretly suffering from anxiety they band together to find her help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHWeingarten, Lynn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEISwanson, Matthew
Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SWAAtwood, Megan
Summary: When Olive makes up a story about a trip to Paris to impress her New York pen pal Molly, the lies quickly get out of hand, and threaten their long distance friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWCala, Caroline
Summary: Malia, Dot, and Bree get a much older--and scarier--client than they expected, but looks can be deceiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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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 BREBarkley, Callie
Summary: Liz and her friends are spending a fall weekend at the cabin at Marigold Lake, planning to bake pies and enjoy nature, but Lizzie forgets to put sugar in her berry pie--a mistake which proves fortuitous when she needs a lot of berries to feed a migrating goose who has fallen behind his flock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARCala, Caroline
Summary: Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: With weird swamp noises swirling around him, Beak the Bird cannot get any sleep until his friend Ally the alligator shows him where the racket is coming from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCummings, Troy
Summary: It has been a busy summer of makerspace projects at the library and monster hunting for the three members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol, and the puddles that are appearing all over town are a clue to the identity of another monster--an angry hydra water monster who is obsessed with cleaning up (literally) the town of Stermont, even if it means drowning all the messy children who live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CUMFalatko, Julie
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 FALSumner, 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 SUMBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: When the spacesuit of famous astronaut Sally Ride disappears from a traveling exhibit, Amal Farah, daughter of the Air and Space Museum's archivist, and her three friends, are determined to find the culprit before the exhibit is cancelled.
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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 BREEnderle, Adrienne
Summary: Dandy is already worried about the fifth grade spelling bee, because his family has a history of winning--and once it starts, things keep going wrong, and his best friend Malcolm realizes that the contest is being haunted and the boys need to find out why and banish the specter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ENDAtwood, Megan
Summary: After a string of incredibly good luck, Molly decides that she has developed magical powers--but when she finds out that her pen pal Olive has had an equally surprising run of minor disasters Molly starts to wonder if her magical good luck is somehow responsible for her friend's problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWFeuti, Norman
Summary: Ally's enjoying a peaceful, rainy day down in the swamp until Beak tells her that a big storm is coming. As Ally makes her way home to prepare, she can't help but notice other swamp critters struggling to get ready for the bad weather. Even though she has a lot to do, she offers them a hand. But before she knows it, the storm is upon her, and she has to take shelter in the first secluded spot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FEUKinney, Jeff
Summary: When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MACAtwood, Megan
Summary: Molly who lives in New York City, and Olive who lives on a farm in Iowa are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWProbert, Tim
Summary: After a battle that nearly cost them their lives, Bea and Cad awaken in the hidden settlement of the Arsai, mysterious creatures who can glimpse into the future. The Arsai's vision paints a dire picture for their planet, as the bird Kest Ke Belenus--now awoken from a restless slumber--threatens to destroy all the Lights of Irpa. Desperate for a solution, Bea and Cad seek out the help of a water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PROQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021