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Deaf children Juvenile fiction First day of school Fiction Friendship Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Langage et langues Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Language and languages Fiction Language and languages Juvenile fiction Self-esteem Fiction Stories in rhymeAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEMarsh, Sarah
Summary: Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHart, Emilia
Summary: I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Happy 2013Richardson, Melissa Seron
Summary: Mia has a homework assignment to think of five words that apply to herself--but when other kids laugh at her she is beset by negative words that buzz about in her brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RICKhalil, Aya
Summary: The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2020
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Summary: "Little Excavator wants to help the big rigs transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park, but he is too small to get the job done! That is, until he finds a job that is a perfect Little E-sized task"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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Summary: Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BETCook, Julia
Summary: When a classmate wins a contest, Brad brags about how he won an even bigger contest. When another student breaks his arm, Brad blabs about how he broke BOTH his arms AND his legs. Children and adults will get a real kick out of Brad's tall tales as he learns the difference between being a "pull-upper" and a "one-upper!"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boys Town Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Paperback, Call number: JE FIC COOLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPCleary, Rhona
Summary: Joining Prince Eric on his trip to the Arctic to oversee the construction of a new port, Ariel discovers the project is endangering the coral reefs below and must convince the team to stop before the merfolk take matters into their own hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISMills, Claudia
Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILAvant-garde, Zaila
Summary: "Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde teaches young readers about the joy of learning new words in this Step 1 leveled reader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN AVAReid, C. L.
Summary: Emma and her grandmother bake a special birthday meal for Emma's father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REISchotter, Roni.
Summary: Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHDewdney, Anna
Summary: Little Excavator wants to help the big rigs transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park, but he's too small to get the job done! That is, until he finds a job that's a perfect Little E-sized task.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LITDominguez, Angela N.
Summary: "The story of two giraffes - one English-speaking and one Spanish-speaking - that overcome the language barrier to forge a friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: "After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC EVACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2021Summary: A dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places, follows an enigmatic vagrant who enters the lives of an upper-class family and quickly unravels their carefully curated lifestyle. Charming and mysterious, Camiel Borgman seems almost otherworldly, and it isn't long before he has the wife, children and nanny under his spell in a calculated bid to take over their home life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Drafthouse Films 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BORBruns, David
Summary: In 2003, the world watched as coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, then scoured the country for the WMDs they knew were there. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were never found…but they exist. On the eve of the invasion, five nuclear devices are smuggled out of Iraq and hidden in the most unlikely of places—neighboring Iran. Now, as the threat of WMDs fades into a late-night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reef Points Media LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUWinburn, William B.
Summary: Simple text and photographic illustrations of Bear and Rabbit playing hide-and-seek introduce words for such spatial concepts as over/ under and up/down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2010