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Summary: From Marvyn Harrison, the founder of Dope Black Dads, and illustrator Diane Ewen, comes a joyful first book of positive affirmations. Every week, we choose words to help us feel brave, beautiful, and powerful! I Love Me! celebrates building confidence and self-esteem through uplifting statements that little ones and parents can say each day. The book's days-of-the-week structure provides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARJackson, Richard
Summary: "An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JACLake, Nick
Summary: Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal demons and family tragedy, and the bumps along the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and self-discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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Summary: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory. She can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom, the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. Melody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRELake, Nick.
Summary: Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Childrens 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAKShannon, David
Summary: Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHAMarciano, Johnny
Summary: Klawde is not your basic cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant ... and he's also Raj Banerjee's best friend. Following a humiliating, defeated effort to conquer Earth, Klawde has had it with this this dismal planet. And anyway, what's the point in conquering such an insignificant corner of the galaxy, when there's an entire universe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MARGlaser, 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...
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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 GLAWang, Andrea
Summary: "A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WANCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WANDooley, Sarah
Summary: "After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J FIC DOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOOBirdsall, Jeanne.
Summary: As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BIRSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction de la Pena 2018Bledsoe, Josh.
Summary: "After her play date is cancelled, a young girl and her dad have a fun day tackling their to-do lists together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2016
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Summary: "17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FITStead, Rebecca.
Summary: Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STEMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: Everyone in the Ellis family is excellent, except Ed the dog, who is determined to find something at which he, too, can excel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCASchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHStead, Rebecca.
Summary: Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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Summary: Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDParish, Herman
Summary: When Amelia Bedelia's aunt gives her dance lessons as an early birthday present, she agrees to give it a try and soon finds herself making new friends and discovering that there is something to like about many different kinds of dancing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PARForman, Gayle
Summary: In the summer of 1987 in Venice, California, ten-year-old Bug and her new friend Frankie learn important lessons about life, family, being your true self, and how to navigate in a world that is not always just or fair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FORAzuma, Kiyohiko
Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009