Yaccarino, Dan.
Summary: This exciting picture book biography introduces young readers to Jacques Cousteau, the world's ambassador of the oceans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Bio CousteauAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALEBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THALasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FLEKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: "Kids can learn how to help protect bird species, with Counting Birds - the real-life story of bird counting and watching. Frank Chapman loved birds. He created bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and started a magazine "Bird-Lore." Back then, some sports hunters had a "Christmas Day bird hunt". People shot every bird they could see and counted them at the end of the hunt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.072 STERayner, Abigail
Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back ... But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back...But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAYKim, Hyo-eun
Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARChapman, Jared
Summary: Different types of fruits going to the pool look at some of the different types of suits a fruit can wear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD CHAAguilera, Claudio
Summary: "As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGUYankovic, Al
Summary: An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YANOxley, Jennifer
Summary: "Peg and Cat are at the South Pole preparing to watch the ski race at the Animal Winter Games. Suddenly they spy the Penguins zooming downhill. CRASH! The Penguins apologize ("Snow problem," says Cat), but it seems that there is a problem: the Penguins keep slamming into things! So they all try again, with Peg shouting directions each time they come to a hurdle. "Go over! Go under! Go in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OXLKnowles, 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 KNORubin, Adam
Summary: In Ancient Times, Gladys the dancing chicken goes on an epic adventure when she is mistaken for a magical chicken who grants wishes to those she encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Litwin 2012Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LITWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSBen-Barak, Idan
Summary: "What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 BENWoelfle, Gretchen
Summary: "Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters, Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done. That's why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things. But in the early twentieth century, women like Jeannette couldn't vote to change the laws that failed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RANPortis, Antoinette
Summary: In a normal neighborhood, on a typical day, the birds chirp, the dogs bark and the cats meow. When Little Brown Bird decides she doesn't want to sing the same old song, out comes a new tune that shakes up the neighborhood and changes things forever in this funny, innovative book that kids will love to read out loud. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PORGiang, Kristen Mai
Summary: "On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023