Jules, Jacqueline
Summary: Instead of the usual dusting Sofia volunteers to wash the car--but when she leaves the hose on her mother's marigolds get flooded and she calls on her sisters to save the situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JULHatke, Ben
Summary: Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2014
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Summary: Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: "Snoopy sees something he wants to buy at Lucy's yard sale. There's just one problem: he has no money, and Lucy won't take dog bones. But Lucy says if Snoopy does some chores for her, he can have whatever he wants. Snoopy is all set and ready to work--or is he?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHPilkey, Dav
Summary: Whenever Dragon wakes up groggy, he always does everything wrong, like sweeping a hole in his dirt floor, or reading an egg and frying his newspaper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PILGwynne, Carrie
Summary: In Doing household chores, learn more about how cleaning smart can lead to a healthier life. In Keep it clean, Jake finds out what happens when a person does not keep up with chores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648 GWYDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "Digger wants to play baseball with his friends. But he isn't allowed to go out until he's cleaned his room. Digger starts cleaning at top speed, but the faster he moves the messier his room gets. His big tail and big feet aren't helping! Will Digger win the race to tidy his room and get to the game on time?"--Publisher's statement on Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DOTTrejo, Jesús
Summary: "Today, little Jesús has a big job to do. He's helping Papá at work, and he's in charge of the water jug -- which is also a magical clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday is done. But what about all these thirsty animals? Soon, the water is gone, but the day is not over yet. Will Jesús be fired?! Or is the jug not really magical after all." -- page [2] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TREKlungel, Johan
Summary: "Tom and Daddy are home today. Daddy wants to clean the house and do the dishes, but Tom wants to play. Quickly they come up with a solution: together they'll try to conquer the dish monster and go on a quest in the jungle of socks. A funny and recognizable story about doing chores with Dad, which doesn't have to be boring at all."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2023
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Summary: When Lucy gets a new red wagon she wants to play with it immediately, but first she must use it to bring vegetables home from the market for her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIWChristie, Tory
Summary: Now that budding scientist Curious McCarthy's dad is going back to work, the five oldest McCarthy kids will be helping more with chores and taking turns cooking dinner. When her parents present the daily chore chart, Curious is delighted that they forgot to assign her a task. She spends the next week trying to go unnoticed and chore-less as she learns about chemistry and observes it at work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHRPurcell, Rebecca
Summary: In this story in the Owl & Bird of full-colour board books Owl tidies up his toys. But tidying up doesn't have to be just a chore it can be fun, too! This amusing beginner book, with bold, bright illustrations and simple text, shows readers how to put the fun into necessary chores, while it introduces emerging readers to simple vocabulary and dialogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Seed Publishing 2023
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Summary: It's bad enough when high-school senior Keeley grabs the wrong phone while leaving her small town's end-of-summer fair. It's even worse when she discovers that the phone she now has belongs to the obnoxious, self-centered Talon and that he's just left for football camp...with her phone. Reluctantly, the two agree to forward messages for a week. And as Keeley gets to know Talon, she starts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KCP Loft, an imprint of Kids Can Press 2017
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Summary: Twelve-year-old, Korean American adoptee Emma Davidson has a problem. Two problems. Okay, 1. She has a crush on her best friend, Avangeline, that she hasn't been able to share. 2. Avangeline now has to move out of their town because her parents are getting a divorce. 3. Oh, and Emma is a secret witch who can't really control her powers. It's a complicated summer between sixth and seventh grade....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Averil is on a mission to find the creator of the phone app her helicopter parents use to keep track of her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARRuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RUBKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORColfer, Chris
Summary: "A combination travel guide, encyclopedia, and exciting fan compendium, this ultimate guidebook includes sections such as "Who's Who," "Places to Go," and "Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Things" that explore the backgrounds and histories of the many characters, places, and magic items throughout the beloved Land of Stories series. This book also includes bonus chapters, insider information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION COLMeadows, Michelle
Summary: Maxie embarks on a quest to collect five charms for her magic spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR Orange MeadowsCrider, Bill
Summary: Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes tackles a final mystery involving an unidentified victim at a school demolition site, a band of dimwitted hoodlums, and a paranoid detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019