George, K. (Kallie)

Summary: The charming first book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she first arrives at Green Gables. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, so they've adopted what they hope will be a sturdy, helpful boy. Instead, Matthew finds Anne awaiting him at the train station imaginative, brash, redheaded Anne-with-an-e. With her place at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2018

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GEO

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Includes a study guide.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008

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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Montgomery

Krishnaswami, Uma

Summary: Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KRI

Avachat, Arushi

Summary: As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVA

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J MON

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Now every child can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's ever-popular story! First introduced in Anne of Green Gables as a young orphan, Montgomery's feisty and imaginative heroine is now 16 years old and embarking on a new adventure: becoming a teacher in her old Avonlea school. It's an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J FIC MON

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MON

Kochar, Amandeep S.

Summary: "It's dog-yoga day at the green space next to the animal shelter and Jeet, Fudge, and their friends are eager to join in to help manage their nerves about summer ending and school starting. Hilarity ensues when Fudge finds multiple ways to interrupt the practice. But that won't stop the friends from finding their calm!"--P. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOC

Perkins, Mitali

Summary: Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PER

Ruths, Mitali Banerjee

Summary: "Archie is worried that her school friends won't like Diwali, her favorite Hindu holiday, and when a storm knocks out the electricity, it looks like the party may be ruined."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUT

Weeks, Sarah

Summary: Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEE

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEE

Parappukkaran, Sandhya

Summary: When Zimdalamashkermishkada starts a new school, he decides to shrink his name to the shorter, simpler Zim, but when his new friend Elly sees him for who he truly is, Zimdalamashkermishkada finds the confidence to step proudly into his long name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAR

Quigley, 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 QUI

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUI

Frazier, Sundee T.

Summary: "Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants-especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere-not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRA

LaRocca, Rajani

Summary: "Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family and their community. But Reha's parents don't understand. She feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma. Although their names are linked--Reha means 'star' and Punam means 'moon'--they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. Really sick. Reha, who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LAR

Rylant, Cynthia

Summary: In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RYL

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Rylant 2017

Reynolds, Hannah

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REY

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REY

Blume, Judy.

Summary: Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1971

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLU

Garlick, Nicholas

Summary: His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with thelocal bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GAR

Yovanoff, Brenna

Summary: "Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, explores Max's past--the good and the bad--as well as how she came to find her newfound sense of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC YOV
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YOV