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Yum, Hyewon

Summary: One rainy day, a little boy is upset because he can't go out and play. His mom comes up with a way to keep him entertained - by drawing a picture of herself and him going outside, playing in the rain, and splashing in a giant puddle. They have so much fun drawing themselves that they decide to venture out and make the most of the rainy weather. --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUM

Bean, Jonathan

Summary: "An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bean 2013

London, Jonathan

Summary: Froggy is afraid of the water until his mother, along with his flippers, snorkle, and mask, help him learn to swim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1997

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LON

Shraya, Vivek

Summary: "A playful story ... about a young boy's fascination with the dot on his mother's forehead"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHR

Poh, Jennie

Summary: When his mother sends Herbie the young hedgehog out on his first big foraging adventure, a big wind sweeps him far from home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint 2016

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POH

Minarik, Else Holmelund.

Summary: Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sauerländer 1979

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Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LAW

Milgrim, David.

Summary: As young Eddie goes through his checklist to get ready for school, his mother does not agree with all of his choices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIL

Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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

Evans, Maz

Summary: Twelve-year-old Elliot Hooper has many problems: his mother has been behaving strangely, they are in danger of loosing their farm to a mean-spirited developer, and he is failing at school, so when he finds a girl in the cowshed, and she announces that sheis Virgo, an immortal constellation, it just seems part of the normal chaos--but soon he is swept up in the Gods' hunt for prisoner 42,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Eggers, Dave

Summary: Lucian enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EGG

McGlothlin, Kristin

Summary: In order to play more music in the future, Gwilym first has to deal with the past. Thriteen-year-old Gwilym Duckworthy's favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. It's a day he spends with his family and friends, playing football and taking part in a scavenger hunt. He is thankful for his good life. But this year, our of the blue, his mom calls him, wanting to reconnect, which forces Gwilym to deal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bird Upstairs 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCG

Pastis, Stephan.

Summary: This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PAS

Konigsberg, Bill

Summary: It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

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

Colfer, Eoin.

Summary: When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe-- a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own-- as they try to prevent catastrophe.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD COL

Colfer, Eoin.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a most ingenious criminal mastermind, and heir to the Fowl family empire, a centuries-old clan of underworld figures and famous con artists. When Artemis kidnaps Holly Short, one of the Fairy People, to help him on his quest for gold, he takes on a Fairy world determined to rescue Holly.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2004

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Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin

Summary: Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NIE

Stark, Andrew

Summary: Liam and his mother find an injured pigeon, and his mother insists on taking it to the wildlife center, explaining that while some people think of pigeons as pests, every animal deserves care, respect, and a place in the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE STA

D'Lacey, Chris

Summary: When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE--but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DLA

Hest, Amy.

Summary: When Sam has a cough, Mrs. Bear tends to him all through the cold night.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Hest 2002

Ness, Patrick

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NES

Colfer, Eoin.

Summary: In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Talk Miramax Books 2002

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Yum, Hyewon.

Summary: A little boy is afraid of scary wolves without his mother, but when she is holding his hand he is much braver.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YUM

Penn, Audrey

Summary: When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Child Welfare League of America 1993

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PEN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Penn

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEN

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