Messner, Kate
Summary: Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: The definitive picture book biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most crucial figures in the COVID-19 pandemic. Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci was a curious boy in Brooklyn, delivering prescriptions from his father's pharmacy on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel playfully chronicle the process of becoming a writer in this fun follow-up to How to Read a Story, guiding young storytellers through the joys and challenges of the writing process. From choosing an idea, to creating a problem for their character to resolve, to coming to The End, this empowering picture book breaks down the writing process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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Summary: "Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Over the canyon, the sun scalds the air, and bakes the desert mud to stone. But under the shade of the canyon hides another world, where bighorn sheep bound from rock to rock on the hillside, roadrunners make their nests in sturdy cacti, and banded geckos tuck themselves into the shelter of the sand. This book takes readers on a journey through the wonders concealed in the curves of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals atruth about her family that Ava would rather not know.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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Summary: This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Fergus and Zeke, the pet mice in Miss Maxwell's classroom, learn that Lucy wants to teach them how to run through a maze for the science fair, but they come up with their own idea for training Lucy to cheer them for their performance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Under the canopy of the rainforest, hundreds of animals make their homes--from the slender parrot snake to the colorful poison dart frog. But up in the trees hides a whole other world, where toucans and pale-billed woodpeckers chatter and call, capuchin monkeys swing from the vines, and sleek-furred jaguars rule the night. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.734 MESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.734 MESSMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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Summary: "Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing ... in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Nature MessnerMessner, Kate
Summary: This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "A book of insects, with a focus on their 'super powers'--their extraordinary and very real abilities--and an art/design style that evokes comic-book-hero-and-villain awesomeness. The book will include profiles of the animals and their powers, mixed withspreads that compare, contrast, and pit the insects against each other in a kind of 'who would win??' action format. Head-to-head combat!...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.7 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he helps a girl named Helga journey through the ash and smoke of an erupting volcano to find her father and bring him home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 591.43 MESMessner, Kate
Summary: Describes the process of tracking Burmese pythons, an invasive species to the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2020
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Summary: "Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves ... and down in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MESMessner, Kate
Summary: "Myths about the history of women's rights in the US--focusing on the ratification of the 19th Amendment--are debunked; the real deal of what happened is explained"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 MESMessner, Kate.
Summary: Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OVEMessner, Kate
Summary: Looks at the life of the coral restoration pioneer Ken Nedimyer, from his early fascination with the ocean to his ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018