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Polacco, Patricia

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 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

Lee, Emery

Summary: "Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses-an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery-and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jordan, Anna E.

Summary: "The switcheroo fun of The Parent Trap meets the showbiz spirit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this timeless coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and following your dreams. When Shira and Esther first meet, they can hardly believe their eyes. It's like looking in a mirror! But even though they may look identical, the two girls couldn't be more different. Shira dreams of singing and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Beddia, Lea

Summary: "Elise's best friend and her sympathetic teachers offer what help they can, but there's only so much they can do. Elise's situation suddenly turns dangerous when her mother invites a fellow addict into their lives. Elise has to find a better path for herself--to get to college, pay for her education, and deal with her mother's lifestyle"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Pastis, Stephan

Summary: Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023

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Pérez, Celia C.

Summary: From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who learns the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores shes just met. Twelve-year-old Adela "Addie" Ramirez has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. Addie loves Alex, the only father figure shes ever known, but with a new half brother due in a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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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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Netz, Mo

Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

John-Kehewin, Wanda

Summary: "In this young adult novel, fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Behar, Ruth

Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Larson, Kirby

Summary: Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC LAR

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