Applegate, Katherine.
Summary: Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home-and his own art-through new eyes. When Ruby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC APPMontgomery, Ross
Summary: "The penguin pack plays all day long. And when the sun goes down and the night grows cold and dark--PEGUIN HUDDLE! But one night there is a freezing gale. And the next morning the penguins are stuck, frozen together like a giant penguin ice pop. What a penguin muddle! How will they get unstuck?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONGaiman, Neil.
Summary: "Chu the panda goes to the beach!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GAIChapman, Linda
Summary: Do you believe in magic? Sita and her friends do! When they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of adventure unfolds. Sita and her star animal, a deer called Willow, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. As the Star Friends' ability to use their magic gets stronger, the forces of dark magic working against them become more intense, too. But the person using dark magic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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Summary: "Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. A business lion reads about it in the paper over his breakfast and absent-mindedly says 'hmm!', but does nothing about it. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied by their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Editions 2022
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Summary: "Do you believe in magic? Lexi and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures awaits. Lexi and her star animal, a squirrel named Juniper, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. The Star Friends fear that more dark magic is brewing. And now the friends themselves are arguing! Will their Star Animals be able to convince them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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Summary: "Three young pandas set out on separate journeys to save their homes and families in the Bamboo Kingdom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Ater her spy notebook of secrets goes missing and she receives a ransom note, Kelsie tries to solve the mystery on her own but soon realizes she needs everyone in the Curious Cat Spy Club to rescue the notebook, help a homesick 130-year-old Aldabra tortoise, and unmask a thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series SingletonBarkley, Callie
Summary: "Ellie has always wanted to go to wedding, and her hopes finally come true when her cousin asks her to be a flower girl at her wedding. Then the Critter Club gets the cutest guest Ellie has ever seen: a little French bulldog. Ellie works hard to find a home for the puppy, but she's worried she won't be able to. Suddenly she has an idea that will guarantee that the puppy lives happily ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BARPintonato, Camilla
Summary: "Oscar is a whiz in the kitchen, but he's always dreamed of being a detective. When a squirrel is reported missing, Oscar hopes this will be his big break. Since he's read so many mysteries and has a nose for details, he knows exactly how to lead an investigation. But the clues pile up and he's nowhere closer to solving the case. Will he be able to track down the missing squirrel?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PINApplegate, Katherine
Summary: Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savanna to Ivan and Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC APPStohler, Lauren
Summary: Loud and splashy Baby Capybara must change his ways if he wants a bevy of peaceful birds perched on his back, but when an unexpected critter splashes onto the scene, he realizes he does not need to change himself to find friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOLee, Su Youn
Summary: When Coco the chipmunk, who always shares her food, falls ill, her new friends come to care for her in the same way she taught them, in this heartwarming debut picture book inspired by a Korean greeting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEAlexander, Rilla
Summary: A young elephant embarks on a whimsical quest to find various lost objects belonging to their animal neighbors, uncovering a mystery as snail, squirrel, and ladybugs reveal their missing items. Backmatter pages explain the around-the-world origins of each nonsense word appearing in the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEFleming, Candace
Summary: A group of forest animals vie for the same delicious red apple that is just about to drop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLEBhadra, Sangeeta
Summary: "This is the house where Jill plays. This is the oak that holds the house where Jill plays. This is the nut that fell from the oak that holds the house where Jill plays ... So begins Sangeeta Bhadra's The Nut that Fell from the Tree, a cumulative tale that pays homage to "The House that Jack Built," and a playful account of how difficult it is for an acorn to grow up into an oak! The story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BHABrydon, Alli
Summary: In this luminous, winter-themed celebration of the joy and beauty of nature and the gift of friendship, a group of woodland creatures use items found on the forest floor to build something special together, then race off to catch a glimpse of one of nature's most astounding wonders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BRYSingleton, Linda Joy
Summary: ""The Curious Cat Spy Club formed by sixth-graders Kelsey, Becca, and Leo returns to solve the mystery of Becca's zorse before she has to give him away"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2015
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Fiction SingletonStyles, Walker
Summary: When Rider takes the P.I. Pack to a ski resort on vacation, they get caught up in a Snowbot mystery, instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE STYCrute, Josh
Summary: Deer wakes up to find one of his antlers is missing...and there's a tennis racket in its place? One by one his friends also uncover that their important items from glasses to lucky boots have been swapped with silly, useless replacements like donuts and swim flippers. They've been hornswoggled! (Hornswoggled means tricked.) It's pure poppycock! (Poppycock means nonsense.) Once they gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRUMountford, Karl James
Summary: "One morning, Fox is drawn toward the forest. There, in a clearing, he sees something small and silent, perhaps forgotten. It's a bird, lying as still as can be. Fox is confused, upset, and angry. Is the bird broken? Why doesn't it move or sing, no matter what Fox does? His curious antics are spied by a little moth, who shares a comforting thought about the circles in the sky -- that the sun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOUBoiger, Alexandra
Summary: "Max and Marla are best friends. And aspiring Olympians! With their eyes on the prize, they know exactly what it'll take to reach sledding success: preparation, practice and perseverance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOISaltzberg, Barney
Summary: High in the trees in the middle of the night, all of the pandas are sleeping except for Chengdu, who tries everything and still cannot fall asleep until he finds the perfect spot--atop his brother, Yuan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023