Scarfarotti, Lorie
Summary: "Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old track & field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the support of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCASummary: When the foster parents they've cautiously grown to love discover they're expecting, orphaned Roy and Jemima Fisher, ages six and seven, are secretly devastated by the certainty they'll be given up. With Christmas around the corner, their only wish is for new foster parents as nice as Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz. Meanwhile, the Kurtzes have wishes of their own-and with faith, they all may be gifted with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRALoedel, Daniel
Summary: "In 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he's moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her, she presents Tomás with a way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOERosenberg, Jordy
Summary: Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSHeuer, Lourdes
Summary: "On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEUBellaire, Jordie
Summary: "This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil...only this time around her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUFKorte, Steven
Summary: When The Flash and Superman decide to race each other around the world, they don't let the super-villains creating mayhem along the way slow them down. Because the rest of the Justice League is there to help! From Metropolis to China and everywhere in between, this Super Hero team is always quick to come to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2018
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Summary: "Join Ron the rooster as he wakes up the other animals on the farm."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE HORLore, Pittacus
Summary: After the battle in Switzerland, the Fugitive Six find their allegiances torn, dividing them into two factions. But when a new threat is revealed, the group may find itself painfully outmatched. Facing capture or annihilation from all sides, the only hope the Human Garde have for survival is to stand together once and for all to fight back against their true enemies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LORLore, Pittacus
Summary: The Garde, broken and divided, discover that the Mogadorians have commenced their ultimate invasion plans and will stop at nothing to thwart it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LORFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOForte, Lauren
Summary: "Bob and the team have a job to do at the new space-themed restaurant. There may be an alien loose in Spring City"--Page 4 of ocver
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORGoade, Michaela
Summary: As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOAStowell, Louie
Summary: Kit is a wizard. The youngest wizard in the world, in fact. But her magic keeps going wrong, and all kinds of weird stuff has started happening - exploding fireballs, animals talking when they shouldn't be, and a very strange new arrival in a nearby park. So Kit and her two best friends - along with their local librarian - set off to investigate, and to save the world again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Stowell 2020Sauer, Gordy
Summary: "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUForte, Lauren
Summary: The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORForte, Lauren
Summary: Olivia is inspired to save her memories in a time capsule. She is also determined to find the time capsule that Grandma made when she was a little girl. After all, she needs to get ideas about what to put in her own! What will Olivia want to remember when she's all grown up?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE OLIForte, Lauren
Summary: "Bob the Builder and his crew are building a new car wash for Cutis's garage. Roley wants to make sure the tarmac is perfect, but he rolls into the machine and breaks it! Will Bob and the team be able to clean up the mess?"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FORKorda, Lerryn
Summary: When Dog's bed looks so inviting to his numerous animal friends that a teetering pileup of coziness ensues, a sneeze triggered by Mouse's presence on Elephant's trunk temporarily frightens everyone away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOLord, Cynthia
Summary: Hot Rod Hamster is invited to a Halloween party, and he enlists the help of a group of ghosts to win the spookiest costume contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN LORLord, Cynthia
Summary: Because Marco Polo is tiny and likely to be lost, he is the least-borrowed of the Book Buddies, and he almost never leaves the library. But the little mouse finally meets the right match in Seth, a boy who is about to attend his first sleepover. If Seth were to bring the stuffed bunny he usually sleeps with, he'd risk being teased, but Marco Polo is the perfect size to hide away in his sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LORLord, Cynthia
Summary: "Ivy was Anne the librarian's doll when she was a young girl. But now she has moved to Anne's library to be its newest Book Buddy--a toy that can be checked out just like a book. Ivy isn't sure she wants to be borrowed, though. She'd rather go back to just being Anne's favorite toy. Fern, a child who visits the library with her stepfamily, also wishes things could go back to the way they were,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LORLord, Cynthia
Summary: No pets are allowed in the apartment where Suzannah and her family live, so she volunteers at a local pet shelter and plays with the dogs and cats there--but when a child whose family is moving brings in her pet guinea pig, Jelly Bean, Suzannah promises that she will find him the perfect home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014