Kirsch, Vincent X.
Summary: Archie and Zack are inseparable, both in elementary school and outside it, but Archie is having trouble telling Zack about his love, so he writes a letter, from A. to Z.; in fact he writes a lot of letters, but they do not sound right so he hides them, and though his other friends, Zelda, Zinnia, and Zuzella, find the letters, they all understand who the letters are really for.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIREvan, Erin
Summary: Rome, A.D. 306. Emperor Constantine converts the Roman Empire to Christianity. Over the next two decades, his armies destroy pagan idols across Europe and the Middle East. England, A.D. 1830. Paleontologist Mary Anning writes to Sir Richard Owen, describing a fossil that she discovered in the cliffs of Lyme-Regis. She writes that the fossil is a large wing made of black bone. Montana, A.D....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVALeali, Michael
Summary: "Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEAStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOCurry, Parker
Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURScanlon, Elizabeth Garton
Summary: In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad afterall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/HYPERION 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VERLowry, Mary Pauline
Summary: "Meet Roxy. She's a sometimes vegan, always broke artist with a heart the size of Texas and an ex living in her spare bedroom. Her life is messy, but with the help of a few good friends and by the grace of the goddess Venus she'll discover that good sex, true love, and her life's purpose are all closer than she realizes. Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWGow, Robin
Summary: After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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Summary: Corduroy shows Lisa that writing letters to express your opinion can make a difference.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN INCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN INCUnderwood, Deborah
Summary: When Jupiter notices a planet circling a far star, he enlists the other planets in our solar system to send a letter, but soon there is a disagreement on which, exactly, is the exoplanet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLACummings, Troy
Summary: A dog looking for a home sends letters to prospective owners on Butternut Street, with surprising results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CUMFunk, Josh
Summary: As a school project, George and Blaise become pen pals, writing rhyming letters about their favorite things to do, unaware that one is human and the other a dragon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, Penguin Young Readers Group 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E FUNWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. A companion to the Woodson's other book entitled: Locomotion
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WOOThoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: On each of the twelve days during her Christmas visit with her cousin Will, Katie writes home describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Michigan that she has explored. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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2 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday ThomsCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE THOZier-Vogel, Lindsay
Summary: "Alice loves her neighborhood. She loves the maples trees and marigolds and the colorful balconies on her street. But -- "grumble, grumble, more construction" -- it seems not everyone does. "Poor street," says Alice, then she has an idea. "Dear Street ..." she begins to write, and when she's finished writing her love letter, she hides it for someone to find. A grumpy neighbor discovers the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZIEScotton, Rob.
Summary: After Splat writes the Easter Bunny, he tries to find him to deliver the note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2011
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE SCOHest, Amy.
Summary: In a series of letters to her new dog, fourth-grader Annie Rossi relates her daily exploits and remembers her mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HESJames, Helen Foster
Summary: A grandmother shares her adventures and special memories with her grandchild through a series of letters written while she is traveling the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAMWhitman, Sylvia
Summary: When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHIStone, Nic
Summary: "Vernell Laquan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University . . . and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to Justyce -- the protagonist of Dear Martin -- Quan's story...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: PA FIC STOTonatiuh, Duncan
Summary: Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TONButler, Dori Hillestad
Summary: Through a series of letters, snobby cat Simon and good-natured dog Baxter team up--sort of-- to find Andy's missing school pet Louie, the leopard gecko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BUTWellington, Monica
Summary: "A young dancer writes a letter to a ballerina she admires"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019