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Stead, Rebecca

Summary: A classic middle-grade novel about a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps by New York Times--bestselling authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA Fiction Stead

Green, Simon James

Summary: A love story that begins in the margins... It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised novel in the library that reflects his own confused feelings towards boys, Jamie sees that he's not the only one who has checked the book out. Will Jamie and this mystery boy have the courage to meet--and if...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRE

Bickers, Tessa

12 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favourite book, a heavily annotated and containing her friend's final words to her. When James finds Erin's note-filled book in his local community library, it sparks a life-changing conversation. He writes his own message back, and soon they are locked in an anonymous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Enterprises ULC 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Mora, Pat

1 hold on 2 copies

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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Hoffman, Alice

Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Hoffman

Dyckman, Ame

Summary: In three-and-a-half stories, friends and roommates Bat, Cat and Rat share, joke, and read together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DYC

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Capucilli, Alyssa Satin

Summary: When Mr. Hughes finds a fish all alone in the library and names her Library Fish, she knows she's found her true home. Library Fish makes friends in the library and on the bookmobile, checks that books are returned, and absolutely loves story time, when she can listen to all kinds of stories and poems, meet unforgettable characters, and travel around the world and even to other planets! But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAP

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAP

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAP

McGee, Joe

Summary: When the Junior Monster Scouts encounter a mute banshee at the library, they work together to help her find her voice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCG

Raúl 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAU

Rhatigan, Joe

Summary: "When Peter wants to know more about dinosaurs, his best friend, Lara, knows just where to go. With card in hand, they head for the library where they find just the right book. Then, it's story time!!! Each spread features one or more library vocabulary words such as alphabetical, author, barcode, catalog, database, scanner, nonfiction, and more--with their definitions on the last spread"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Genius Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRD

Wood, Monica

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Jeffers, Oliver

Summary: When Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books and decides to bring her words to life, comical chaos ensues and her friend Alphabet must come to the rescue, singing a song that brings calm and order to her pages once again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEF

Park, Linda Sue

Summary: A celebration of the joy that books and reading bring to children, anywhere, anytime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAR

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024

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Mallery, Susan

Summary: The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAL

McKinlay, Jenn

Summary: "For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she's tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there's no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCK

Miller, Kirsten

2 holds on 7 copies

Summary: When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of "pornographic" books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in "wholesome" dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Ryan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)

Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYA

Fombelle, Timothée de

Summary: "For bibliophiles, browsers, or the just plain curious--this witty and wonderful collection of insightful observations is a joyful celebration of readers of every kind!"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FOM

Horvath, Polly

Summary: Eleven-year-old Essie, who was abandoned as a baby and lovingly raised by four librarians, meets a mysterious boy whom she believes is her twin brother, but as she gets to know him better, she discovers nothing is as simple as it seems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HOR

Bivald, Katarina

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be told The small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories--author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers... Berit can sense the edge of a story waiting to be unraveled, and she's just the person to do it. In fact, with a book deadline...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2024

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Mount, Jane

Summary: Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOU

Browne, Mahogany L.

Summary: "A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRO

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