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My first I can read bookSima, Jessie
Summary: While shopping with her two dads for supplies for her birthday party, Harriet, who is wearing a penguin costume, is carried away by a waddle of penguins and must hatch a plan in order to get herself back to the store in the city.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SIMKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELAtinuke
Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIKeats, Ezra Jack
Summary: The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Set Spanish Keats 1962Frawley, Katie
Summary: An elephant in the rainforest is looking for a birthday adventure, and a pampered city kitty is getting bored with her luxe life; when the two connect over Lair-BNB, they discover the joys of new places and of finding your way back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions, Amazon Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Schertle, Alice
Summary: A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SCHTaylor, Theodore
Summary: Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAYWalker, Anna
Summary: A gust of wind picks up Peggy, a chicken, and carries her from the suburbs to an unfamiliar place - the city. Peggy watches, hops, jumps, twirls, tastes, and makes new friends. Then she finds her way home ... with a new taste for adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WALFaber, Polly
Summary: "The sky is getting dark. In the city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth, and getting ready for bed. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. Where is she going and who will she see along the way? As the night goes on, readers will see nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists, and many other workers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FABThomson, Sarah L.
Summary: Straight-laced fifth grader Emily's world is turned upside down when new neighbor and free spirit Rani moves in with her dog Otto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC THOVerde, Susan
Summary: Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Grandma Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, Angel and others paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VERPinkwater, Daniel Manus
Summary: Yetta, the beautiful chicken, breaks free from the truck that is carrying her to market. She quickly realizes the big city is nothing like the chicken farm. She is scared and confused until she meets and saves the life of a little, green parrot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Pinkwater 2010Boss, Shira
Summary: "A newly planted sidewalk tree in the city transforms the neighborhood as residents nurture it through the seasons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOSBrown, Peter
Summary: Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE BroCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRODavis, Brooke Lauren
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Roxie agrees to help her sister Skylar uncover her boyfriend's killer, but they discover that everyone in Whistler, Indiana, is hiding something and some ghost stories are best left untold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAVSolis, Nicholas
Summary: "In this bilingual picture book, cousins from opposite sides of the border visit each other's towns and delight in their similarities and differences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Wynter, Anne
Summary: "In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WYNEsperanza, C. G. (Charles George)
Summary: Colorful, psychedelic sneakers hang from telephones wires all over the city. Up in the sky, they hang for all to marvel at. But when a few special pairs get knocked down, the kids have to try them on. Soon they're racing, dancing, learning to fly! These enchanted sneaks are out of this world--but where did they come from? And who would ever leave these behind?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESPYaccarino, Dan.
Summary: Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YACWasley, Robin
Summary: Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other—just days after one of the most humiliating romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC WASSchwartz, Amy
Summary: "Preschooler Ayana has thirteen adventures with her family and her friend Harris including a jelly bean hunt, working in a community garden, and giving her hamster, Stanley, a bath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHCapucilli, Alyssa Satin
Summary: On his first visit to the city, an excited puppy sees tall buildings, hears loud buses, and tries to say hello to everyone he meets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CAPGraham, Bob
Summary: "After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRADow, Alechia
Summary: "Wini's family of enchangers runs a bakery, yet with the prices of magical ingredients skyrocketing, they're going under. Desperate to save their business, Wini takes a risk by casting a (sort of illegal) spell. But the spell backfires. Badly. Now the whole town is in danger. It's just been Kal and her dad for as long as she can remember. But right as they're about to move to a new town for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023