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African Americans Juvenile fiction Armstrong, Louis 1901-1971 Childhood and youth Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Graphic novels Jazz Juvenile fiction Jews Cartoons and comics Magic Juvenile fiction New Orleans (La.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction Time travel Juvenile fiction United StatesGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s. When owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street, meant the realization of dreams. When everyone knew everyone else on the block and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. The corner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS GOOGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated 2024
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Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKSharp, Tori
Summary: "Tori makes up stories all of the time, so she has never lived in just one world. Those stories might just save her when her world seems to crumble"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: Brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HAIOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBBell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Summary: During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRASlovo, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLORipert, Eric.
Summary: "Before he earned his third Michelin star at his iconic restaurant, Le Bernardin, the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef of the Year, became a regular guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, even before he knew how to make a proper omelet, Eric Ripert was a young boy in the South of France who felt that his world had come to an end. At the age of five, his parents went through a bitter divorce....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPERT, ERIC RIPSummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about dental hygiene, preventive care, and oral health concerns for children and adults, with facts about surgical, orthodontic, and cosmetic dental procedures, and diseases of the mouth and jaw. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.6 DEASwanson, Shari
Summary: "Based on primary sources, the true story of Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by his rescue dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SWAMorris, Willie.
Summary: The author offers an account of growing up in the rural South of the 1940s, sharing anecdotes about his extraordinary dog, Skip, and reflecting on the relationship between a young boy and his beloved pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, WILLIE MORMyer, Sarah
Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: L.H. Sanford 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.485 SANDavis-Goff, Annabel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5082 DAVKrasnow, Iris
Summary: "Iris Krasnow started going to summer camp at age 5. She sat around a fire roasting marshmallows until they burned; chased fireflies that dotted the night sky; swam in the expansive Blue Lake; and made friends that have lasted a lifetime, learning lessonsalong the way that she follows to this day. Now decades later, she returned to Camp Agawak in Wisconsin as a staff member to help resurrect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRASNOW, IRIS KRARusso, Marisabina
Summary: "It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised Catholic and attending a Catholic school that she loves--but when she finds out that she's Jewish by blood, and that her family members are Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, her childhood is thrown into turmoil. To make matters more complicated, her father is out of the picture, her mother is ambitious and demanding, and her older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 RUSHarper, Charise Mericle
Summary: "Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full of inventions. But she's also a bad sister. When she goes too far and breaks little brother Daniel's tooth, can she redeem herself? Is an accident really an accident if you could have stopped it? But most importantly... What does it mean to be a good sister?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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Summary: "In Yehudi Mercado's full-color middle grade graphic memoir sequel to Chunky, Hudi and his imaginary friend, Chunky, head to Jewish summer camp, where the dynamic duo meet a new friend who can see Chunky, too, and get mixed up in a prank war. This series is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft. Hudi finally embraced his love of art and comedy, but his class clown antics keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Tom et Léa sont transportés à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 1915. Ils rencontrent un jeune noir surnommé Dipper. A 14 ans, le garçon chante sans cesse et il a une belle voix. Il adore la musique, mais n'a pas le temps de s'y consacrer. Car il doit travailler dur pour faire vivre sa famille... Louis Armstrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bayard Jeunesse 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 OSB FRENCHPrince, Liz
Summary: Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2014