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Clinton, Chelsea

Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLI

Yaccarino, Dan.

Summary: This exciting picture book biography introduces young readers to Jacques Cousteau, the world's ambassador of the oceans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COU

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Bio Cousteau

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: "Known for both his paintings and stained-glass windows, Marc Chagall rose from humble beginnings to become one of the world's most renowned artists. Admired for his use of color and the powerful emotion in his work, Chagall led a career that spanned decades and continents, and he never stopped growing. This lyrical narrative shows readers, through many different windows, the pre-WWI childhood...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knoff 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHA

Alessandri, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

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Bolden, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

Lasky, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FLE

Krull, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRU

Stemple, 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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seagrass Press 2018

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Rodríguez, Rachel.

Summary: Discusses the influence of nature and color on the American artist and how she demonstrated these feelings through her paintings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OKE

Rayner, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022

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Young, Cybèle

Summary: [The artist] Cybèle Young invites readers to consider the inevitability of change and the power of the imagination. The sculptures in this book were made entirely from Japanese paper.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2015

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Rayner, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAY

Kim, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIM

Shetterly, 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- ).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space Shetterly

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHE

Martinez-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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Summary: Furry adventures abound in this collection of stories that are each timed to be read aloud in five minutes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2021

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Chapman, Jared

Summary: Different types of fruits going to the pool look at some of the different types of suits a fruit can wear.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2017

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Yankovic, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC YAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAN

Aguilera, Claudio

Summary: "As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023

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Oxley, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Entertainment 2016

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Knowles, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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Howe, James

Summary: The timing could not be worse for Dolores the mouse when she develops a food allergy to yummy cheese right before the Everything Cheese Festival.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Howe 2009

Rubin, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG RUB

Ben-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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 576.8 BEN

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