Lowry, Lois.
Summary: When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2011
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Summary: Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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Summary: Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOWWalker, Landry Q. (Landry Quinn)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Elara from the planet "Nowhere" begins school at the Academy of Terraforming Arts, where she befriends Clare, a mute intergalactic sponge, and learns how to farm in space without blowing up planets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WALLaure, Estelle
Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUBliss, Harry
Summary: Although he is a dog, Bailey goes to school where his canine abilities enliven an ordinary day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the United States government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Editions 2008
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Summary: When an unhoused boy enters school, he runs afoul of rules and finds himself alone, but finds that he has imagination, resilience, and can define "the bright side" for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OTISpinelli, Jerry.
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPIBarry, Michelle A.
Summary: Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2022
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Summary: A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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Summary: Sideways stories from Wayside School: Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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Summary: Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Spinelli, Jerry
Summary: When the school assigns each eighth-grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year as a lesson in mortality, Worm Tarnauer, who thrives on being invisible, doesn't count on Becca Finch, the seventeen-year-old car crash victim who changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2002
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Summary: A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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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 LowrySachar, Louis
Summary: "Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Sachar 2015Sachar, Louis
Summary: Follows the adventures and misadventures of students and staff as they cope with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that has settled over Wayside School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SACReynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton)
Summary: Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can't draw - she's no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. "There!" she says. That...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG REYSachar, Louis
Summary: Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SACRowling, J. K.
Summary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard Jeunesse 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ROW FRENCHRowling, J. K.
Summary: As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022