Moser, Barry
Summary: "Illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MOSER, BARRY MOSHaidle, Elizabeth
Summary: Brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HAIAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKCurry, Parker
Summary: While playing dress-up, Parker and her siblings imagine endless possibilities for future careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURSummary: Stack the colored beads on five hardwood dowels to match the pattern cards. There are ten patterns that increase in difficulty to build matching, sequencing, and fine motor skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melissa & Doug 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Cares Kits, Call number: CARES KIT 38Summary: Kids will love learning early math skills when the fun is ready for the picking! The apples are perfect for counting, sorting and number recognition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skoolzy
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Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURLoyie, Oskiniko Larry
Summary: Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LOYIE LOYHines, Richard
Summary: A memoir about a working-class kid whose passion for the elite pastime of falconry sets him on an unexpected path through adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HINES, RICHARD HINCurry, Parker
Summary: "Parker grows a backyard garden with her two grandmothers, Nana and Mom Mom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Our hands-on kit highlights the life cycles of butterflies, chickens, and frogs - with five realistic manipulatives for each animal. Children can put them in sequential order or compare one animal's life cycle to another"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeshore Learning Materials 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHAKoralek, Jenny.
Summary: A simple retelling of how Moses, who grew to lead the Hebrews out of captivity in Egypt, was saved when his mother and sister set him adrift in a water-tight basket where Pharoah's daughter would find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 222 KorBell, Cece
Summary: Starting a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest. At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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Summary: A best-selling fiction author recounts his young life in an Amish family which moved from Ontario to Honduras and then to America when the community failed, and his reasons for departing from his childhood faith later in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EICHER, JERRY S EICJohnson, Varian
Summary: Scott Free, a student at the Goodness Academy on the planet Apokolips, wants to escape to Earth but falls in love with the head of the Female Furies--the one person tasked with ensuring he never escapes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHBernstein, Harry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERNSTEIN, HARRY BERManning, Peyton.
Summary: During a trip to visit both sets of grandparents in Mississippi, brothers Eli, Cooper, and Peyton, and their father, former NFL star Archie Manning, take advantage of every opportunity to play football, practice plays, or play sports trivia games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLOPinckney, Darryl
Summary: "Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 PINHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Summary: Presents a variety of activities which build learning readiness for exploring and understanding the five senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Pub. 1998