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Redd, Nancy Amanda

Summary: In this celebration of identity, family, and holiday cheer, one Black family embarks on a journey to discover what the real Santa looks like.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE RED

Faruqi, Reem

Summary: Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Faruqi, Reem

Summary: When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Arnold, Tedd

Summary: Fly Guy misses his family, so Buzz invites them to a surprise party and his mother, father, and thousands of brothers and cousins show up--Fly Guy is delighted but Buzz's parents are not pleased.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ARN

Dodd, Emma

Summary: Christmas is joy that's overflowing. It's sparkling eyes and faces glowing. One little reindeer calf discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE DOD

Deen, Natasha

Summary: In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're running out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hists,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEE

Reid, Aimee

Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal how a newborn baby is welcomed to the world by parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REI

Hood, Ann

Summary: An Italian immigrant watches her six children grow up while she searches for her seventh, the product of a love affair who was given up for adoption.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Cody, Matthew

Summary: "For the Bright family, rocket science is no big deal, but learning how to be a family is a real challenge! When a dimensional portal sends Mom and Dad who-knows-where, it's up to Nia and Jayden (and their robot nanny, Dusty) to bring their parents home. The question is, where in the multiverse could they possibly be?"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC COD (graphic novel)

Lord, Emma

Summary: Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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 PRA

Mauleón, Daniel

Summary: Determined to be a great baseball player like others in his family, Fernando needs their help to regain his confidence after his coach tells him to steal a base and he fails. Includes discussion questions, information about baseball, and glossary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAD

Anderson, Jodi Lynn

Summary: Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood, twelve, of Cliffden, Maine, living in a world where sasquatches, dragons, giants, and mermaids are common, keeps a diary of her family's journey in a used Winnebago as they seek The Extraordinary World in hopes of keeping her little brother, Sam, safe against all odds.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AND

Green, Holly

Summary: Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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Green, Stephanie

Summary: First-grader Posey is concerned that her spring vacation will be boring compared to her friends' travels, but her mother's plan to take each day as it comes turns out to be full of excitement.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Greene 2017

Greanias, Margaret Chiu

Summary: Max lacks the lack to be a villain like the rest of his family, but when he brings home a bunny, his mother challenges them to become a devious duo or Max will lose his new sidekick forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Summary: A collection of six stories recounts the adventures of young Laura and Almanzo and their families as they settle into a new house, visit town, go to the county fair, make maple candy, enjoy a winter day, and celebrate Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RV

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RV 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RV RATED PG

Green, D. L. (Debra L.)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Perez is a very professional and well organized babysitter, but suddenly she finds herself in competition with a boy and the only thing she knows about him is that his nickname is Doc, he lets the kids he is babysitting run wild, and he is probably in her class--and that is only the beginning, as the stress causes her to quarrel with both her best friend, Piper, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAB

Smith, Eric (Eric A.)

Summary: Follows the intertwining lives of five teens whose world is changed forever after the events at a party. Adopted Black girl Frankie struggles to see eye-to-eye with her white mother--who would rather ignore a problem and preserve their "perfect" life than stand up for what's right. Jo just wants her religious mom to accept her queer identity--and is totally crushed when her girlfriend Frankie,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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