Grace, Catherine O'Neill
Summary: A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEECrandell, Rachel
Summary: A photo-essay that describes everyday life in a Maya village. Shows residents carrying firewood, preparing meals, weaving clothing, sowing maize, carving designs and playing music
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.83 CRAEdwards, Pamela Duncan.
Summary: A leprechaun intervenes with gold and magic when a greedy, boastful young harpist gains an unfair advantage for a royal harping contest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2004
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Summary: A modern retelling of the biblical story shares the details of how light, water, earth, and living creatures came to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Religion McDermottWillems, Mo.
Summary: No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say, "Yes."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILHills, Tad
Summary: Duck and Goose learn to work together to take care of a ball, which they think is an egg.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto and must survive throughout the war in the Nazi-occupied Polish countryside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORLSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SNIWillems, Mo.
Summary: A trip to the laundromat leads to a momentous occasion when Trixie, too young to speak words, realizes that something important is missing and struggles to explain the problem to her father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDBruchac, Joseph
Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRUSummary: A collection of traditional stories from different parts of Africa, featuring varied characters and themes--some familiar, some newer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 NELBarton, Byron
Summary: Sam describes in loving detail his car and how he drives it
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BARDemi
Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANHunter, Erin.
Summary: For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADACherry, Lynne.
Summary: A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEPerkins, Lynne Rae.
Summary: Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2005
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Shriver, Maria.
Summary: Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling - but lately he's been repeating the same stories again and again. One day he even forgets Kate's name. Her mother's patient explanations open Kate's eyes to what so many of the elderly must confront: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of memory loss. With special insight derived from her own father's struggle with Alzheimer's, Maria Shriver...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown/Warner Books 2004
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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 Easy, Call number: JE ALEMora, Pat
Summary: Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate of El día de los niños, or Children's Day, in this bilingual story. Includes facts about Mexico's annual celebration of children and the book fiestas that are often included.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX MORAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1994