Summary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECShaw, Janet.
Summary: "Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota. This collection includes: Meet Kirsten, Kirsten Learns a Lesson, Kirsten's Surprise, Happy Birthday, Kirsten!, Kirsten Saves the Day, and Changes for Kirsten."--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHAErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When Kirsten's new friend Erik disappears, she has to figure out whether he ran away to get out of some promises he made, or whether something else has happened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AGM ErnstErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When Kirsten's new friend Erik disappears, she has to figure out whether he ran away to get out of some promises he made, or whether something else has happened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNHopper, Ada
Summary: Dr. Bunsen is just trying to help. Really, he is. This time, when Dr. Bunsen overhears the kids complaining about all their chores, he lends an extra hand by creating clones out of Gabe, Laura, and Cesar! But when the clones start acting out and Bunsen's solution goes haywire, can the kids undouble the DATA Set trouble?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC HOPTsukuda, Yuto
Summary: The preliminary round of the Fall Classic begins! All of the contestants do their utmost to showcase their skills to the acclaimed judges, with the favored students presenting the most exquisite of curry dishes! Only the top eight finalists will qualify to enter the main event. Who will make the cut?!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On May Day in a small community, the residents go about their everyday business as they wait for the traditional pagan parade to begin. When the newly crowned May Queen, the highlight of the event, does not show up, townsfolk grow suspicious that someone among them has kidnapped her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAYCather, Willa
Summary: Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CATDillon, Leo
Summary: Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILTeir, Philip.
Summary: On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max's life begin to dissolve. He hasn't...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi International 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEITsukuda, Yuto
Summary: Three students survive the harsh trials of the preliminaries, winning their way into the finals. Which student will be the one to take home the crown as the winner of the Fall Classic?! Later, the furor of the Fall Classic has barely died down when Soma and the others are sent off to new battlefields! What is this new challenge that will test their desire to be chefs?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOTsukuda, Yuto
Summary: After passing the first challenge, Soma begins to work for Shinomiya at his new Tokyo restaurant, where he finds out he has to be the best of the best to keep up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOTsukuda, Yuto
Summary: "Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school! Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOTsukuda, Yuto
Summary: "Leaving home for the first time in his young life, Soma moves into the Polaris Dormitory--a place run by an old crone and filled with crazy and eccentric students! Barely settled in, Soma quickly finds himself in one of Totsuki's legendary cooking duels--a shokugeki! Who will his very first opponent be?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOTsukuda, Yuto
Summary: "The "friendship and team-building" camp from hell begins! While most students are already petrified by the threat of instant expulsion for low marks, the unveiling of the teachers responsible for judging their dishes ratchets their fear to a whole new level! Just which anxiety-inducing teachers hold the culinary futures of Soma and the rest of the Polaris crew in their hands this time?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Tsukuda, Yuto
Summary: Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school! Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOOO'Hara, Mo.
Summary: In the first of two stories, zombie goldfish Frankie is good at saving the day, but the medieval day reenactment joust may be too much, and in the second story, Tom's evil brother clones a Jurassic carp, putting the school in danger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD O'Hara 2017Johnson, Nicole
Summary: A story based on an episode of the Disney animated show "Monsters at Work" follows Tylor Tuskmon, who hopes to imitate his idols, Mike and Sully, and become a Jokester on the Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE JOHMcMahon, Bob
Summary: "Chatty Cookie and bashful Broccoli are best buddies, even if they're as different as peanut butter and cheese! Elementary school can be tough, but as long as they have each other, there's nothing they can't handle. Uh-oh, but what happens when Cool Cucumber and his loyal followers put Cookie's and Broccoli's coolness to the test, and Cookie's hokey pokey dance does NOT impress? And worse, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCMSwanson, Matthew
Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Horowitz, Anthony
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ALEShaw, Jessica
Summary: A friendly little farm breaks into chaos as increasing numbers of farm animals fight over a dropped cookie, until they untie together against trouble from overhead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus Ink 2022