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Amistad Novela juvenil Books and reading Juvenile fiction Children Books and reading Friendship Friendship Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Literacy Juvenile fiction Literacy Study and teaching (Elementary) Audio-visual aids Literacy Study and teaching (Primary) Audio-visual aids Reading readinessPizzoli, Greg
Summary: The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GREKinsey-Warnock, Natalie.
Summary: Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINMcKissack, Pat
Summary: In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCKVasco, Irene
Summary: A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VASAbrams, Stacey
Summary: "Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and stories to practice. Soon, more students start to join them."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRUnderwood, Deborah
Summary: In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNDBauer, Joan
Summary: Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Childrens Books 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC BAULowry, Lois.
Summary: Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LowryPaterson, Katherine
Summary: Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paterson 2017Haseley, Dennis.
Summary: A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle/Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HASHest, Amy.
Summary: Harry sits on the porch with Mr. Joe Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESMackintosh, David
Summary: Every year, I stay in the same cabin at the beach with my family, and every year Chicken Smith's here too, with his Dad and his dog, Jelly. But this year, something's different." As we hang on the words of the narrator, we learn of the legendary Chicken Smith and the beachside town that has been the backdrop to their school-holiday adventures for years. But will Chicken Smith turn up this year?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: A rhyming survey of a number of animals and how they rest or go to sleep, leading up to a child's own experience of going to bed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to collared lizards. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: Is that a horse wearing a hat, or is it a unicorn in disguise? It all depends on how you look at it in this charming story about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: Dear Boy, is an open love letter to the special boy in your life. Boys, too, need a gentle reminder that they are cool, clever, compassionate, and one of a kind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 CLIWillems, 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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Summary: The young organizer of the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign explores the power of activism, drawing on her personal experiences to counsel readers on how they can work together to make positive changes in their communities in the areas of literacy and diversity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIARaúl 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