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Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAW

Sammartino, Alexander

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Polacco, Patricia

Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POL

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 1990

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POL

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Johnson, Varian

Summary: Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Miller, Jeff R.

Summary: While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MIL

Pennypacker, Sara

Summary: Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be-with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2021

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Lockhart, E.

Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009

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Cousens, Sophie

Summary: Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton have never met, but their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day. Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990-- and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. Since then each of her birthdays has been a disaster. The two meet on a friends' New Year's part on their mutual thirtieth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COU

Amos, Shawn

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Levithan, David

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Summary: "When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius...right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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Follett, Ken

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Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

Archer, Brooke

Summary: Two teen girls, Mara and Rory, navigate a complex web of love, infection, and survival as they reunite in an experimental resettlement program, grappling with their pasts and the looming threat of the virus that once transformed Mara into a monster.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ARC

Pease, Amy

Summary: Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Khan, H. N.

Summary: Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited 2022

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

Simpson, T. L.

Summary: "An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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

March, Emily

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: Widowed young, Genevieve Prentice dedicated her life to raising her four children. Now, though, they're all grown and scattered to the wind, and Genevieve is ready for a change. In a flash of inspiration, she puts her home on the market and heads to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, to renovate a rustic waterfront lodge with her sister. But just as they begin, Genevieve gets the shock of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Higashino, Keigo

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

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Johnson, Craig

Summary: "What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in an 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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

Collins, Ailynn

Summary: "The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Northwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the beggest forest fires in U.S. history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL

Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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

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

Edgarian, Carol

Summary: Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor's daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDG

Arrows, Mark

Summary: Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARR

Umrigar, Thrity N.

Summary: The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl--and to see his elderly mother for the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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