Filter By Subjects
(Fictitious character) Grey, Kensy Juvenile fiction (Fictitious character) Grey, Max Juvenile fiction Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) Juvenile literature Maathai, Wangari Maathai, Wangari Juvenile literature Tree planters (Persons) Tree planters (Persons) Kenya Biography Juvenile literature Twins Juvenile fiction Women conservationistsFilter By Subjects
(Fictitious character) Grey, Kensy Juvenile fiction (Fictitious character) Grey, Max Juvenile fiction Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) Juvenile literature Maathai, Wangari Maathai, Wangari Juvenile literature Tree planters (Persons) Tree planters (Persons) Kenya Biography Juvenile literature Twins Juvenile fiction Women conservationistsJohns, Geoff
Summary: While Hal Jordan is inducted into the Green Lantern Corps, the Green Lantern called Sinestro investigates the death of Hal's predecessor, Abin Sur. Who--or what-- could have killed this Lantern? And what does it all have to do with the event called "The Blackest Night"?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GREVenditti, Robert
Summary: "Mythological monsters and gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find a return Zeus's stolen property and bringpeace to a warring Mount Olympus."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 RIOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC RIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC RIOWinter, Jeanette
Summary: This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAASchachner, Judith Byron.
Summary: Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, stars in a fairy tale set in the winter wonderland of his imagination.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SKIMcDonnell, Patrick
Summary: "Imbued with the creativity, artwork, and heart of Patrick McDonnell, this all-new graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel super heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Black Panther, and Spider-Man, and is the synthesis of McDonnell's positive, inspirational sensibility and Marvel's blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCDGrange, Emma
Summary: "Meet some very special Marvel Super Heroes. Captain Marvel is brave. Moon Girl has big dreams. Hawkeye likes new challenges, and Black Panther protects people. Super Heroes come from different worlds, but what unites them all is fighting for good. Find out what it takes to be a hero!" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing, a Division of Penguin Random House 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lemire, Jeff.
Summary: "They were just kids with the same problems as anyone. Victor Stone's mother wouldn't stop pushing him to be more than who he is. Tara Markov's mom couldn't tell you a thing about her daughter if her life depended on it. Joey Wilson was drawing further away from his peers every day, into a self-imposed world of silence. And Gar Logan had everything he could want, except the answer to what was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 TEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lemire 2016Riordan, Rick.
Summary: Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, (I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC RIOMcQuerry, Maureen
Summary: "Wangari Maathai worked to heal and revive damaged land by planting new trees. Discover her big ideas about restoring nature and ways you can help too!"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MCQNapoli, Donna Jo
Summary: The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAAHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: "The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007's exploits...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 HARNivola, Claire A.
Summary: "This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement"--Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAAMaathai, Wangari.
Summary: Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAATHAI, WANGARI MAAHarvey, Jacqueline
Summary: "Kensy and Max are back in London for no time at all before things begin to heat up - quite literally. As a result, Granny Cordelia ships them off to Australia on an undercover mission. The twins find themselves planted in a posh Sydney school where first appearances prove to be deceiving. What seems like a straightforward assignment turns into something so much bigger. Kensy and Max must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2020Harvey, Jacqueline
Summary: Kensy and Max are now agents-in-training at Pharos, a covert international spy network. Christmas break sees the twins back at Alexandria for training and a celebration like no other, but where are their parents and why can't they come home? Thankfully, a school trip to Rome provides a welcome distraction. Amid the history and culture of Italy's capital, they discover a runaway boy and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2020Eyles, Allen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 EYLWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "Wonder Woman's journey through the broken realm has reached its end--but who waits for her there? And what exactly created this place between dimensions in the first place? The answer will shock Diana and provide the missing piece of a puzzle that's defined her entire life! But in the wake of Ares' escape from his prison, who among the Amazons could possibly change the course of history? Only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WONKava, Alex.
Summary: During a training exercise, Creed's scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida's Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVHarvey, Jacqueline
Summary: "What would you do if you woke up in a strange place? If your whole life changed in the blink of an eye and you had no idea what was going on? Twins Kensy and Max Grey's lives are turned upside down when they are whisked off to London, and discover their parents are missing. As the situation unfolds, so many things don't add up: their strange new school, the bizarre grannies on their street,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Harvey 2020Schachner, Judith Byron.
Summary: Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat who'd rather be his Chihuahua alter ego, is determined to attend dog obedience school.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction SchachnerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SKIHaynes, Natalie
Summary: The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Adler, David A.
Summary: On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008