Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOKirst, Seamus
Summary: When a classmate insists a family must have a mother and a father, Riley fears she will have to choose between Papa and Daddy until her fathers assure her that love makes a family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIRLowell, Catherine
Summary: "A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontës who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWSidney, Margaret
Summary: Fatherless children, happy in spite of their impoverished condition, want to surprise their mother on her birthday. But how can they when they have no money?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SIDNg, Celeste
Summary: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NGBrisson, Pat
Summary: As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIStaniszewski, Anna
Summary: "Am I really Polish? On a trip to visit relatives in Poland, a young girl feels disconnected from her identity ... until she and her cousin bond over their shared love of mermaids, magic and fairy tales"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STAGunnis, Emily
Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEGrant, Shauntay
Summary: "Slip, slide, skate! This spare and celebratory ode to Black joy chronicles a little boy's exciting snow day with his family"--Adapted from inside jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GLAMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: "Nora and Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets ... One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself ... Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not related to Nora and Ben's parents. But if she is adopted, how could that have happened without...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a line of werewolves, Artie asks her mom to share everything--including the story of Artie's late father. Her mom reluctantly agrees. And to help Artie figure out her wolflike abilities, she recruits some old family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Cohen, Paula
Summary: When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COHMonfried, Lucia.
Summary: An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the joys and sorrows of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four sisters growing into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Pub. 2002
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: With his brother on trial for patricide, Lane Baldwine is now the head of the family, and the Bradford Bourbon Company. But his lover, Sutton Smythe, is the CEO of their biggest rival. It is said that love survives all things. But murder?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWilkes, Maria D.
Summary: An abridged version of the story of young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family surviving their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2007
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Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZUSClements, Andrew
Summary: As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CLEDabarera, Dinalie
Summary: "Sometimes, the moments that Sona spends with her Sinhalese grandfather, her seeya, are quiet. They speak different languages and don't always use words. But they do communicate in other ways. Sometimes, they're loud. They play dress-up, stomp in puddles, and pretend to be puppies. They cook pittu, tease each other when they're messy, and read to each other, even though they might not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DABElston, Ashley
Summary: After using their family business to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. When Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018