Bundy, Tamara
Summary: Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents' farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNJames-Duncan, Monique
Summary: Following a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their mom, this warm, revealing picture book builds a bridge of empathy between parent and child and celebrates the value of "Mommy Time."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAMStopek, Shoshana
Summary: Sid the koala has found a new home with perfect trees, and a perfect hammock, and he is ready to settle in for a long nap when he discovers he has an annoying neighbor, Marvin, who really wants to be his friend--but when Marvin's hammock collapses Sid realizes there is something more important than sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOJobe, Lisa
Summary: As a boy searches his backyard for the perfect pet, his mother asks him to consider where a squirrel, frog, or bird would like to live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JOBLee, Britney Winn
Summary: "Meet a boy with a heart so big, his feelings glow from his cheeks, spill out of his eyes, and jump up and down on his chest. What good is this giant heart?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEEDocherty, Helen
Summary: Rhyming text illustrates that in a world where we share more similarities than differences, the power of empathy and kindness is universal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: Omega Morales's family has been practicing magic for centuries in Noche Buena. But over the years, the town's reputation for the supernatural is no longer one the people carry with pride. So Omega's family keeps to themselves, and in private, they're Empaths--diviners who can read and manipulate the emotions of people and objects around them. But Omega's powers don't quite work, and it leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEMVirján, Emma J.
Summary: "Captain Cat sees three yellow birds on his pirate ship. Will they join Captain Cat for lunch, or will they become her lunch? One brave bird has a plan in this sweet story about misunderstanding and unlikely friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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Summary: A little girl knows that pigs cannot look up but is empathetic to all the beauty they are missing, so she hoists her pig up to see the stars for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE D'ONVerde, Susan
Summary: A child recognizes his own humanity, his capacity for doing harm and being harmed, his ability to feel joy and sadness, and his belief in hope and promise to keep learning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD VERGeorge, K. (Kallie)
Summary: "Ophelia is excited to go on the fairy field trip to Atlantica so she can visit the Wishing Whirlpool. There is only one problem: Ophelia can't help being helpful! Every time she is about to go off on her own, she gets distracted by someone who needs her assistance. But when she runs into her sea witch cousin, Octavia, Ophelia might learn what true help means"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GEOHealy, Erin M.
Summary: RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL FICTION. Before Audrey was the baker's wife, she was the pastor s wife. Then a scandalous lie cost her husband a pastoral career. Now the two work side-by-side running a bakery, serving coffee, and baking fresh bread. But the hurt still pulls at Audrey. Driving early one morning to the bakery, Audrey s car strikes something or someone at a fog-shrouded intersection. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HEAVerde, Susan
Summary: A child recognizes his own humanity, his capacity for doing harm and being harmed, his ability to feel joy and sadness, and his belief in hope and promise to keep learning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOWMantchev, Lisa
Summary: A young girl has so many choices but only one wish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANWillis, Connie.
Summary: In a not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure that has been promised to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. So when Briddey Flannigan's fiancé proposes that he and Briddey undergo the procedure, she is delighted! Only--the results aren't quite as expected. Instead of gaining an increased empathetic link with her fiancé Briddey finds herself hearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILCampbell, Marcy
Summary: "Adrian Simcox brags about owning a horse, and Chloe just knows he's making stuff up...until she learns an important lesson in empathy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CAMHealy, Erin M.
Summary: Detective Jack Mansfield spirals into madness after his wife disappears when her scooter is involved in a car accident at a foggy intersection, leaving Audrey, the wife of the former local pastor and the only suspect, to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAKotler, Steven
Summary: Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOTRobbins, Emily
Summary: "A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBedia, Elizabeth Gilbert
Summary: "Arthur's gloomy father rushes him through the park every morning, through gray and rainy weather. Arthur just wants a bright balloon from the park's vendor, but Papa always says no. One morning, the balloons magically appear at their doorstep, and Arthurfigures out the perfect way to bring the sunshine out and Papa's smile back; even if only for a few moments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEDDinan, Nancy Wayson
Summary: "2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. In the midst of the rising waters, Boyd sets out across the ravaged back country. She is determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DINDubuc, Marianne
Summary: When Little Cheetah and Little Shadow decide to trade places, they get a chance to see the world through each other's eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUBNunez, Sigrid
Summary: "A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020