Grimes, Nikki.
Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIGemmell, Nikki.
Summary: This is a story of Lillie Bird, a woman from a locked religious community who one day finds herself in the freedom of a strange new world, England, accused of murdering a man. But it was there, in that land of cold, dark skies and scuffed and tumbling streets that she had first found the pleasure and the sadness, and the love she had, for years, so desperately sought.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FUC GEMEhrlich, Nikki
Summary: Dax and Zoe are twins. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's the night before the twins are starting kindergarten, and they have the just-about-to-start-school jitters. After all, they will be in different classrooms! What will kindergarten be like when they're not together all day? But Dax and Zoe will learn that kindergarten is full of new surprises and adventures, and being...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EHRMay, Nikki
Summary: Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything Ronke wants--a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be. Simi is the golden one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories, from seasoned readers to those just learning to love words, and it will have kids and parents alike imagining where their library can take them. This inspiring read-aloud includes stunning illustrations and a note from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG GIOSlade-Robinson, Nikki
Summary: A young artist explains how she uses the materials provided by nature, as well as her imagination and creativity, to fuel her art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SLASmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1912, thirteen-year-old Noelle is thrilled to sailing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is made even better by her new friend, Pauline, a girl who is traveling with her father to live in America. On the fifth night, Noelle awakes to a sinking ship. Women and children will be rescued first, and Noelle realizes motherless Pauline will be left all alone. Despite her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.St. Crowe, Nikki.
Summary: "The Dark One has finally accepted me...just in time for everything to change. Because Vane's brother, The Crocodile, has just arrived on Neverland soil and he's not alone. He's brought with him members of the royal Darkland family and they want Vane's Death Shadow back at any cost." -- cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST.Smith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMISt. Crowe, Nikki
Summary: "I spent most of my life feeling dead inside - until I met Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. It wasn't until Pan and Neverland that I finally felt alive. But things are not full of magic and sunlight on the island. There's something darker and more sinister haunting forest.and worse, the fae queen and Captain Hook are ready to fight for control of Neverland and they will stop at nothing to get what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST.Smith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Smith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Azaleah's older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMISmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMISmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Matthew, a young African American with asthma who dreams of becoming an Olympic runner like his hero, Jesse Owens, accompanies his journalist father to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SMISt. Crowe, Nikki
Summary: "The stories were all wrong - Hook was never the villain. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they're gone for only a day, some a week or a month. but they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell House 2022