Shabazz, Ilyasah
Summary: February 2015 is the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's death. Written by a powerful team: Malcolm X's daughter and YA favorite Kekla Magoon. A gripping story of adolescence based on the true story of a larger-than-life figure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC SHAMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILSands, Kevin
Summary: "Callan and four other young criminals are recruited to pull off a difficult heist from the city's most powerful sorcerer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The Juvenile Justice System examines all aspects of juvenile justice in the United States. It discusses the history behind the US juvenile justice system and how juveniles are affected by the system. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index."--Google books
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 364.3 HAROliver, Ben
Summary: A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC OLISummary: "On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEAWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Moss, Marissa
Summary: The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 MEIWatson, Cristy
Summary: After Kevin spends over two years in juvie, for a joyriding accident that seriously injured a pedestrian, his parole officer suggests that he apply for early parole, but Kevin realizes it would be hard for him to survive on the outside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2019Patterson, James
Summary: Rafe and Jimmy, two misunderstood 'troublemakers,' are finally up to something good. They're in charge of a huge celebration of books and reading. But when a small issue snowballs into a big problem that threatens to derail the whole event, they need to work fast to keep things on track! And the best part? Rafe and Jimmy are joined by the funniest storytellers they know, including Jamie Grimm...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PATVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
Summary: "At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin's drug business while he's in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends--it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 VENGantos, Jack
Summary: In his family's new rental home on a down-at-the heels street in sun-beaten Miami -- with dog-eating alligators in the canal out back, a dangerously attractive girl across the road, and the unhinged Pagoda family next door -- fourteen-year-old Jack is adrift, losing a sense of who he is and what he's all about. Which is why he ends up trying to morph himself into someone he's not, that someone...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GANRusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLGlasheen, Kate
Summary: In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GLASachar, Louis
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Raúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUSummary: For many inmates at juvenile correctional facilities, looking ahead to freedom brings anxiety and doubt. This program illustrates the challenges that often await young offenders following incarceration and shows teen inmates preparing to face the corporate world, their families, and themselves. Overcoming illiteracy, building marketable work skills, and becoming familiar with employment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Northrop, Michael.
Summary: When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NORSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: The importance of guidance programs for prisoners can’t be overstressed—they help society as well as the individual reentering it. Following young people who have been discharged from Rikers Island Academy, this program focuses on the payoffs that come from educational and counseling services for those behind bars. A lively peer-to-peer class setting is featured, while the process of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Montague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024