Alabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALASoderguit, Alfredo
Summary: A beautiful, simple, and deep book about how accepting others can enrich us all. Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is. Each one knows what she should be doing. They don't even seem to notice when every now and then one of them is carried off. Until one day some capybara appear. It's hunting season and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids/Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SODKerbel, Deborah
Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Summary: "In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANNLanzing, Jackson
Summary: "Thor, might thunder god. Loki, trickster without equal. But once, they were kids. And like all kids, they needed...a babysitter! What? No one tells Thor what to do! Not even Sif, trained as a warrior from birth! Not even Fandral, Thor's best friend, who sees all of Thor's flaws! To prove that he can take care of himself, Thor decides to go on a Thor Quest. Along for the ride are secretive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LANBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Mary Anning made some of the most notable fossil discoveries of the nineteenth century. Her uncovering of ichthyosaur remains, plesiosaurus remains, and more expanded people's knowledge of prehistoric life. This graphic biography follows Anning from her early life in a family of fossil hunters in a coastal British town to her years as a collector who impacted scientific research and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANMcClay, Wilfred M.
Summary: We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCCMills, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILFerraro-Fanning, Angela
Summary: "Welcome to fall on the homestead! Roll up your sleeves, step into nature, and embrace a simpler life with this wholesome, fall-themed activity book. Discover what makes this season so special, learn fun new cooking, planting, and crafting skills, and find out how to make the most of nature's gifts."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 649.51 FERFerraro-Fanning, Angela
Summary: "Packed with fun ideas to keep kids occupied during holidays or at weekends, readers can discover the joys of making natural shampoo, learn about honey harvesting, handprint a picnic blanket, craft a sun catcher, and follow tasty recipes for summertime treats such as homemade watermelon popsicles. The activities from author and homesteading teacher Angela Fanning include eco-friendly practices,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 649.51 FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J649.51 FERManning, Jack.
Summary: "Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to tepees"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 MANManning, Mick
Summary: "An exciting, action-packed introduction to prehistory, from first life on Earth to the beginning of recorded history." -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Otter-Barry Books, Little Orchard 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930 MANManning, Matthew K.
Summary: An alien orphan from the planet Krypton crash lands on Earth, and is adopted by a human couple--one day he will become Superman, defender of the people of Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANManning, Craig
Summary: For Big Bird, today was a very bad day, but soon he found out how to make it okay! In this little book about big feelings, learn how Big Bird and his Sesame Street friends turn frowns upside down!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2020
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Summary: It's Easter morning, and all of Sesame Street is gathered at the park for the Great Easter Race. Who will win the day? Will it be the turtle, who moves slowly and steadily toward the finish? Or will it be the bunny, who runs faster than thunder, but seems easily distracted? Fun surprises wait around every turn, so come along with Elmo and all the Sesame Street friends!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MANBeer, Hans de
Summary: Lars the Little Polar Bear rescues a stranded husky puppy and helps her find food and her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEEManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Proud members of the Bug Society of Littleton, sixth-graders Doug, Josie, Kira, and Reginald, are transformed into part-insect superheroes when they get mixed up with a mad scientist's experiment involving radioactive bugs--and they have to use their insect superpowers to defeat the evil insect villain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: Hal Jordan is a daring test pilot until one day a dying alien gives him a ring of power that changes him into a member of the Green Lanterns, defenders of the Galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Xander Stone has been hiding his three friends the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns in plain sight as part of a magic show, but now a regular unicorn has found her way through a portal; problem is the virus that turned them into zombie-like creatures has apparently given his three friends a craving for unicorn flesh--so when they all use to the portal to return to Pegasia Xander follows to try and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MANManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Kevin Simon is a skateboarder with two friends who keep getting him into trouble but when, as a punishment, his parents assign him to work for old Mr. Belmont cleaning up his property, Kevin finds that hard work sometimes has its own rewards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Stone Arch Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TONManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Batman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman investigate Lex Luthor's ultimate weapon auction, and when they discover that it is their Justice League teammate Metamorpho that is being sold, they realize that they must rescue him--and how they proceed and whether they succeed is up to the reader in this "you choose" story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUPManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Darkseid has stolen Superman's Fortress of Solitude and plans to conquer the Earth--and the reader must help Superman choose the path to defeat Darkseid and his forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MANManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Just when fifth-grader Xander Stone decides to give up his long search for magical creatures, he encounters three Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns, who were banished from the magical world of Pegasia after an encounter with a mysterious object leaking green gas turned them into smelly, zombie-like, rainbow-upchucking creatures--and Xander will need to keep his wits about him if he is to hide the true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019