Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASorell, Traci
Summary: On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCordell, Matthew
Summary: A young girl wakes her father by informing him that she is Queen Alice, then draws him and other family members into her imaginative activities, from writing a book to a sleepover with fairies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CORRowell, Rainbow.
Summary: "In New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's Landline, Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it's been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply -- but that almost seems besides the point now.Maybe that was always besides the point.Two days before they're supposed to visit Neal's family in Omaha for Christmas,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rowell 2014Cordell, Matthew
Summary: A child seeks a way to communicate with parents and a brother who are busy with their electronic devices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CORSaènz, Benjamin Alire.
Summary: When Gabriela and her brother Little Diego get a puppy named Sofie, they fight over who she belongs to, but when Sofie gets very sick they find the answer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SAE SPANISHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH SAESáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEFreudenberger, Nell.
Summary: "The story of a Bengali woman who marries a man from Rochester, NY, after they meet online"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREHooks, Bell.
Summary: A girl who is Girlpie to her mama and Honey Bun Chocolate Dewdrop to her daddy savors the warmth and love of her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HooksPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town's librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023