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Lee, Sungju.

Summary: "Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LEE

Rudd, Maggie

Summary: Happy birthday, America! This picture book celebrates patriotism, community, and summertime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RUD

Kim, Joseph

Summary: "A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage. Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM, JOSEPH KIM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B KIM KIM

Alford, Terry

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALF

Robertson, Kay

Summary: Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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Joyce, William

Summary: When orphaned Katherine learns that the teeth collected by the scorned Tooth Fairy contain memories of childhood, she enlists the help of the Guardians to get her tooth back and remember her parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Karr, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARR

Storey, Kate

Summary: Drawing from conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, and household and security staff, this multigenerational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on the nation's politics and culture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STO

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

Fowler, Karen Joy

Summary: "From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOW

Kao Studios

Summary: Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil! With a sassy feline sidekick and loyal gang...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 THE

Hall, Ron

Summary: This remarkable story shows what can happen when we choose to help. Kids will discover that we can all make a difference—no matter how big or small we are and no matter how big or small the task. Based on the New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me, which sold more than a million copies worldwide and inspired the major motion picture, this book tells the true story of Denver...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MOO

Hall, Ron

Summary: The authors of "Same Kind of Different as Me" offer new reflections and stories of hope and healing, covering such topics as faith, friendship, community outreach, and much more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8325 HAL

Allegra, Mike

Summary: Kimmie decides to trap the tooth fairy to earn money to build a burglar alarm trap.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Slovo, Gillian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLO

Watson, Renée

Summary: "Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023

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

Hall, Ron

Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem Hall

Summary: "When Peppa Pig loses her first tooth, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig explain that the Tooth Fairy is going to take Peppa's tooth and leave her a coin"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

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Allegra, Mike

Summary: Kimmie is overwhelmed with deadlines as she fulfills tooth fairy commissions, scrambles to invent a machine with her best friend Myron to enter in a contest and to beat her rival, and has to help an incorrigible alien repair his UFO.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022

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Park, Barbara.

Summary: Eight adventures of Junie B. Jones in the First Grade.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007

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Lester, Natasha

Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lester

Lee, Sung-Yoon

Summary: Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murderous regime's chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023

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Tahe, Rose Ann

Summary: "A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAH

Summary: "Dig into folklore from across South America with this collection of comic reimaginations and retellings. The sixth volume of the Cautionary Fables and Fairytales series takes you across the continent -- from Peru, Chile, Columbia, and more!" -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIZ

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