Johnson, Dinah
Summary: A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating a vision of home, as well as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHMurphy, Julie
Summary: Barbara "Bunny" Binks comes from a long line of Barbaras, that started with her mother and grandmother. She loves putting her hair up in "bunny buns," playing with her rabbit Ralph, and eating marshmallows. Then one day, she participates in her favorite marshmallow eating contest at field day called "Chubby Bunny," and her classmates start teasing her. But with a little help from her grandma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MURDiaz, Lucky
Summary: "When Canta finds a guitar in the trash, she is one step closer to becoming a rock star. Even though the guitar is broken and she doesn't know how to play, nothing can stop Canta from going after her dreams!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DIAWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: "A mysterious creature is running wild and terrorizing a village of Vikings. Can three little girls uncover the source and put an end to the mayhem?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE WOOJohnston, Aviaq
Summary: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better than she is at a million other things. Nalvana thinks she must be the only kid in town without a superpower. But then her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHFerry, Beth
Summary: A little girl and her dog unexpectedly discover a way to spread happiness and light in their dreary, rainy town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: A feisty little girl learns who the real monsters are in this brilliantly funny medieval adventure. Once, there lived a little girl called Bo. Bo wanted to be just like her brothers and capture a fearsome monster. Bo is small, too small to catch a monster--or so her brothers say. But Bo isn't one to take no for an answer, so she sets off on a quest to catch a monster of her own. Can she defeat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE WOOBouchard, Natasha
Summary: "In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green BouchardBailey, Catherine
Summary: Lucy loves Sherman the lobster from the time they meet at Flotsam's Fish Market. When she learns of Chef Pierre's plans for Sherman, she takes action to rescue the eighteen-pound, eighty-year-old crustacean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bailey 2017Buckthorn, Georgia
Summary: "Mimi was a perfectly ordinary girl who lived a perfectly ordinary life. She didn't want many things. But there was one thing she wanted more than anything else... to see fairies in her garden. Could she ever make a garden perfect enough that they would come?" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids, an imprint of Quarto Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUCFunk, Josh
Summary: When pen pals - and polar opposites - Connie and Nic prepare to meet for the first time at the end-of-year festival, they are in for quite a shock but find that nothing can get in the way of true friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Thanks to Mom, everything about Maria matches--her clothes, her socks, her underwear, her backpack, and her lunchbox. Maria even matches the dog, the duvet, and the doilies. But Maria doesn't want to be so matchy matchy. She wants to mix it up! Feathers and fringe! Pom-poms and plaid! Spikes and spots! Leopard and lace! Tie-dye and tutus! One day she does just that and asserts her very own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, an imprint of Cameron + Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGRolli, Jennifer Hansen
Summary: Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROLCharlton-Trujillo, e. E.
Summary: "Celebrating all the different ways girls can make things, this brilliant, inclusive ode to self-expression and girl power will inspire readers to jump up and start to build--because they can do anything!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHEDavis, Linsey
Summary: Rhyming text encourages girls to join together in speaking up for themselves to achieve their dreams and care for the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVPolacco, Patricia
Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLGuendelsberger, Erin
Summary: Simple, rhyming text encourages girls to accept their struggles, fuel their passions, and love themselves for exactly who they are, because who they are is powerful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids 2023
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Summary: A story about a community coming together to save their library, led by one little girl. This inspiring book shows how every child has the power to change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Hoots 2021
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Summary: "There are wonders all around us ... Why not go see what you can find? Every day, perched high up in her tree house, a girl surveys the distant forest through her binoculars. She knows every plant and animal. But look! A strange new tree appears, towering above all the others. Where did it come from? Is it really a tree? Intrigued, the girl sets off to take a closer look. Just to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CADFaruqi, Reem
Summary: "My name is Salma, which means peace. Islam also means peace. I wish more people knew that." Salma is Muslim, an identity she takes pride in. But not everyone understands Salma's religion the way she does, including news reporters, and even a boy in her class, who bullies Salma for belonging to the culture and faith she loves. However, when things go too far, Salma says, "Enough is enough!" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FARGiddens, Rhiannon
Summary: "At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIDEnglish, Karen
Summary: Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who willenjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: "Once upon a morning in Hong Kong, in the alley of Tai Yuen Street, a girl is promised a mooncake with a double-yolk center ... the special mooncake seems like the only excitement on an otherwise boring day in the market where nothing changes ... until an exhausted stranger falls to his knees right in the street! He ran through forests, swam through rivers, and even stowed away on a ship, all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2022