Dilloway, Margaret.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Xander discovers and learns to use the fantastic powers that are his birthright in order to save his father. Based on Japanese mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney*HYPERION 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DILFairbairn, Nathan
Summary: "Meet best friends Gabby Jordan, Priya Gupta, and Mindy Kim. They're different in just about every way -- personalities, hobbies, family, and more -- but they have a few important things in common: they're all in the same class, they absolutely love animals, and for reasons that are as varied as the trio themselves none of them can actually have any pets. Unable to resist the adorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PAWGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry's 13-storey treehouse is the most amazing treehouse in the world! It's got a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you're hungry. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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Summary: "Meet Catwad. He's blue, he's a bit of a grouch, and his best friend is a happy-go-lucky cat named Blurmp who can see the bright side of anything. From pizza and computers to love and happiness, this furball has a funny take on just about everything, and he's not afraid to share it. It's an all-new, laugh-out-loud series that will make even the grumpiest of grumblers smile!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC BENBovis, Ali
Summary: Sylvie can't wait to raise money for the animal shelter for her Make a Difference Day project, but when her frenemy, Camilla, and Sylvie's foster puppy create obstacles along the way, Sylvie discovers there is more than one way to make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BOVLerner, Jarrett
Summary: When a group of nerdy best friends each begin receiving robots that start to act like real creatures, it is up to them to save the day, and the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LERPennypacker, Sara
Summary: While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: Fergus, the pet mouse in Miss Maxwell's classroom, stows away in a backpack on a field trip to the museum. He makes a new friend, Zeke, another mouse, who shows Fergus many interesting exhibits, but now he wonders how to get back to school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESLord, Cynthia
Summary: "Ivy was Anne the librarian's doll when she was a young girl. But now she has moved to Anne's library to be its newest Book Buddy--a toy that can be checked out just like a book. Ivy isn't sure she wants to be borrowed, though. She'd rather go back to just being Anne's favorite toy. Fern, a child who visits the library with her stepfamily, also wishes things could go back to the way they were,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: A young girl is determined to be the first astronaut with hearing aids in space! Astrid can't wait for the school year to start so she can put her Astronomically Grand Plan into action! She and her best friend, Hallie, are going to be in their first year of Shooting Stars, a club dedicated to all things space. Astrid's big sister has told her all about it, and this year, there is a big,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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Summary: Trapped in a rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, twelve-year-old nonbinary Callie, who dreams of becoming a knight, and their new friends find themselves embedded in an ancient war, but in order to defeat the threats outside the kingdom they must first defeat the bigotry within.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SYMTodd, Brandon
Summary: "Meet Clarke and Miguel! They are new friends. They love going on adventures! Together, they make a map of their town. And they find a sweet treasure!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Bigfoot is the only one in his family who does not like having the spotlight on him, and finds a friend in Nessie who is equally desperate to get away from all the cameras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAMBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, 11-year-old Charlie tries his hardest to keep his life quiet and organized amid the chaos of life on the farm with his veterinarian mother."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BROCala, Caroline
Summary: Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "Do you believe in magic? Mia and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures awaits. Mia and her star animal, a fox named Bracken, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. Mia's older sister has started acting strangely and the Star Animals sense dark magic at work. Can the girls use their newfound Star Magic to help make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAFeuti, Norman
Summary: "Ally the alligator is perfectly happy being alone... until one day a noisy bird named Beak lands on her snout. Much to Ally's annoyance, this chatty bird likes to sing all the time and has chosen a nearby tree to build his new nest. Even worse, he insists that he and Ally will be best friends. In fact, he has all kinds of friendship goals in mind, and it seems nothing Ally says will convince...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vox Books 2021
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Summary: Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as playing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KELMcGinnis, Mindy
Summary: Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGQuigley, Dawn
Summary: "Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUISpecter, Baron
Summary: Jared Jensen is being pursued by a pair of ghostly graverobbers, and he and his friends, the Zombie Hunters, need to find a solution before Jared himself is turned into a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SPEWilkinson, Lili
Summary: When Maud hit puberty she lost her wild magic and her best friend, Odette, rejected her--but now Odette has disappeared, her magic leading her down dark paths, and Maud knows that to rescue her former friend she will have to tread the same paths into a wild, dangerous world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILYoung, Jessica (Jessica E.)
Summary: Ruby, Iris, and Pip first met on their first day of fairy school, and they immediately became best friends, testing their wings, and enjoying their magical adventures--but sometimes it takes a little time for a fairy to find her true magic spark.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Press 2020