Hoffman, Sarah
Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
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Summary: At the Fabulous Fashion Store, a young girl tries on an assortment of dresses, from furry and lacy to swishy and floaty, but what she really wants is a dress with pockets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MURBui, Hanh
Summary: A debut picture book about a little girl who connects to her Vietnamese heritage when she accidentally rips her late grandmother's áo dái.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUIAndros, Camille
Summary: A little girl and her favorite dress have extraordinary adventures together, but when the girl emigrates from Greece to the United States they are separated, and the dress travels the world searching for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDSimon, Coco.
Summary: Mia asks the girls in the Cupcake Club to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2011
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SIMMcLaughlin, M. A.
Summary: "Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti and Marianne's expertise is needed before they go on exhibit. Still grieving the loss of her husband,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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Summary: "Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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Summary: From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: "The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses.... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille loves more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she's ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something that is precious to her, she's happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeerBaldacchino, Christine
Summary: Morris faces taunts and criticism when he wears an orange dress to school, but things begin to change for him after he uses his imagination to paint a fantastic picture that he shares with his classmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BALRosen, Jane L.
Summary: "A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosen 2016Norwich, William D.
Summary: Called upon to inventory the estate of a wealthy woman, Emilia Brown, a frugal and unnoticed woman in small-town Rhode Island, discovers an exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta dress in the woman's collection and changes her life to be able to purchase the dress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Norwich 2016Lagonegro, Melissa.
Summary: Features all the favorite Disney princesses as they discover their perfect dresses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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Summary: "Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives...and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells Julia that even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARGreenlaw, Suzanne
Summary: "In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021