DeRoche, Tim
Summary: Tales of whimsy, verses of woe book contains a collection of nonsense poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redtail Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 DERColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLHarris, Chris
Summary: "A witty, illustrated collection of humorous (and sometimes even heartwarming) poems and nonsense inspired by the absurdities of everyday life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HARColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: A most unusual collection of whacky, funny, scary creatures with imaginative fantasies in verse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 SILColandro, Lucille
Summary: Presents a retelling of the classic tale in which the solution proves worse than the predicament when an old lady swallows a fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
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Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGWaters, Charles
Summary: "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WATFipps, Lisa
Summary: Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPAlexander, Kwame
Summary: "A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction AlexanderAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARAAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MEIBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURDuBois, Caroline Brooks
Summary: After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUBEngle, Margarita
Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ENGMiller-Lachmann, Lyn
Summary: Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her home-town start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Love at first sight isn't a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it's fate. Olivia is a capital-P Poet, and Eden thinks she wants to be a musician one day, but for now she's just the new girl. And then Eden shows up to Poetry Club and everything changes. Eden isn't out, and she has rules for dating Olivia: don't call. Don't tell her friends. And don't let anyone know they're together....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUSMallory, Mel
Summary: "After being sexually assaulted at a party, Mara started experiencing paranoia and delusional thoughts which resulted in a public psychotic episode freshman year. Now a senior in high school, Mara feels like an outcast who would rather keep to herself than risk being judged. However, the only way she'll graduate is if she can pass her least favorite class: public speaking. Mara is ready to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MALSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSalazar, Aida
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SALWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEACline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024