Summary: In the village of Kidsville, a town run entirely by children, the children and Sunny the Bunny make goodies for the Easter holiday, and win over the grumpy nearby town of grownups by inventing many happy Easter traditions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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Summary: An acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development argues that kids today are suffering because their parents are no longer in charge—and explains what parents and educators can do to reverse this trend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 SAXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents SaxSummary: Just for you: Musical comedy about widower Jordan Blake, a successful Broadway producer who's not very successful as a father until a musical comedy star shows him the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSSchroff, Laura.
Summary: Shares the inspiring story of the author's first Christmas spent with Maurice, a poor young boy she met on the street, during which the boy gave her a cherished toy to demonstrate how much he valued their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 921 SCHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 SCHLaRocca, Rajani
Summary: Traveling to the southern tip of India, Sejal, Mommy, and Pati find their way to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, and delight in making it to the end of the earth together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: "Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing realities of social media to the fear that permeates our culture, to the generational expectations that are unconsciously placed on children, the pressures on parents and children have reached a critical moment. We feel it and our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 TSAZinovieff, Sofka
Summary: An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINSummary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJSchroff, Laura
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maurice must beg for change in order to eat, but when Laura stops to help, they begin a years-long friendship that gives each a new perspective and hope. Includes a list of suggested acts of kindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv escape prison and also land in the Big Apple. Now, Kevin must outrun...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOMSummary: A chaste love story of sorts, about a couple of depressed outsiders who find each other: David, a divorced 47-year-old Chicagoan reeling from the death of his father, and eleven-year-old Tommie, who has little use for her sullen and neglectful parents and seems to spend her days wandering around acting wise beyond her years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAMUnita, Yumi
Summary: As Rin experiences the ups and downs of being a teenager, she begins to ponder what it means to be family. In her exploration of that question, she takes it upon herself to track down Masako, her birth mother. Masako, now engaged and pregnant, is about to start a new family of her own. But with Masako's feelings of guilt over her treatment of Rin, she can't bring herself to tell Daikichi of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUNSummary: Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him. Through all the road-blocks, he impresses not only Suzanne, but himself also.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ArNkrumah, Nyaneba
Summary: A novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NKRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NKRMedved, Michael.
Contents: The assault on innocence by Media -- by Schools -- by Peers -- by Parents -- The first component of innocence: security -- The second component of innocence: a sense of wonder -- The third component of innocence: optimism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 MEDSchroff, Laura.
Summary: He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SchByatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BYAByatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYASummary: Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teaches Ray about being a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family NannyCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NANKline, Emily
Summary: "Clinical psychologist and parent-child relationship specialist Dr. Emily Kline offers a set of five easy-to-learn, clinically proven techniques to improve communication between young adults and their parents. Based in based a methodology known as Motivational Interviewing, these techniques focus on elucidating young people's own thoughts and motivations, rather than trying to impose parental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.5 KLICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.5 KLIBarrows, Annie
Summary: Little John Marco is a keen observer of his world, but nobody--not his big brothers and sisters, not his parents, or his neighbors--listens to him; and only the fat orange cat in the front yard agrees with him that the tree in the yard is falling down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Summary: Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in the definitive guide to choosing books for children and young adults--and nurturing their love of reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 028.5 SUTSummary: Since its initial publication in 1990, Mayo Clinic Family Health Book has become a classic home medical reference, selling more than 1 million copies. Now in its third edition, this completely revised, generously illustrated volume offers the latest in medical knowledge with a strong emphasis on self-care. From prevention to treatment, from infancy to old age, this comprehensive health guide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic 2018