Ruiz-Flores, Lupe
Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing la raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day. But she's devastated when she learns right before the show that her partner Ernesto sprained his right ankle. She had been practicing for weeks. And now her family won't get to see her, swishing and swaying in her beautiful dress full of colorful ribbons. Lupita sadly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG RUISummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSWillis, Jeanne
Summary: Old MacDonald loves his phone, he thinks it works a charm, Now all the animals have phones too, how will he run his farm? Sing along as Old MacDonald's farm falls into chaos! How will the animals learn to balance their screen time?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILContents: Chicken reel -- Little girl, be careful what you say -- Chicken reel -- How they broke away to go to the Rootabaga Country -- Lisa Jane -- How the potato face blind man enjoyed himself on a fine spring morning -- Railroad Bill -- Doors -- Sourwood mountain -- The story of Blixie Bimber and the power of the gold buckskin whincher -- Sittin on top of the world -- The junk man -- Wanderin -- Baby...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: August House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN SANKatz, Karen.
Summary: Presents lyrics to the well-known song, interspersed with additional verses about babies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KATPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: West African spider-god Anansi wants all of Sky God's famous stories, but to earn them, he has to outwit several of the animals in his village. It will take all of his cleverness and skills in mischief to pull it off. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLASummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSGwarjanski, Kalee
Summary: "In this female-forward spin on the traditional children's song, readers meet Miss MacDonald on her vegetable farm and learn about gardening, seasons, plant-based meals, and local produce"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "John Henry is the strongest, fastest hammerman working on the railroads in the years after the American Civil War. One day, a salesman comes by with a machine he says can drill faster than any man. John is determined to prove no fancy device can beat him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLACabrera, Jane
Summary: The inhabitants of Old MacDonald's farm are described, verse by verse.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J VOX CABWebb, Melissa.
Summary: Visually appealing book written from a classic, nonsensical poem about an old woman who ate a fly, spider, bird, and more!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hinkler Books 2007
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Summary: In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomach ache than began when he swallowed a tick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EMBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EMBKellogg, Steven.
Summary: A variation on the familiar song, "This Old Man," in which an increasing number of dogs look for treats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SeaStar Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Kellogg 2000Platt, Christine A.
Summary: "Twelve animals race to determine where they will stand on the Chinese zodiac calendar, and each animal's unique quality comes into play." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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Summary: As night falls, animal and human parents everywhere tenderly tuck their children into bed. In the darkness, each child--raccoon, doe, rabbit, field mouse, and a little boy--wonders: "Will I be safe? Will you be there for me?" And every mommy and daddy responds with the comforting words, "Yes, I am here." A picture book version of the beautiful song, "Day Is Done."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yarrow 2009Summary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky -- and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then -- through a combination of hard work and serendipity -- started a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEClement, Jemaine
Summary: A folk music/comedy duo from New Zealand try to make it big in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLIDawson, Delilah S.
Summary: "Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, a hero, the Chosen One, was born...and so begins every fairy tale ever told. This is not that fairy tale. There is a Chosen One, but he is unlike any One who has ever been Chosened. And there is a faraway kingdom, but you have never been to a magical world quite like the land of Pell. There, a plucky farm boy will find more than he's bargained for on his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy DawsonEmelụmadụ, Chịkọdịlị
Summary: As two girls reckon with their burgeoning wildness and the legacy of their missing fathers, Treasure's obligations to a spirit escalate and Ozoemena's duty of protection as a Leopard grows. Soon the girls are set on a dangerous collision course as both must face impossible choices, discovering what they are willing to sacrifice to get what is theirs in a world that always says "no" to women.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC EMEFowler, Earlene.
Summary: When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWLangstaff, John M
Summary: Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1955
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott LangstaffTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: "In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TOLBlackwell, Elizabeth Canning.
Summary: "A Gothic retelling of the real story behind the legend of Sleeping Beauty"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014