Owen, Polly
Summary: The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth. A scholarly worm gives historical facts and context on every page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2023
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Summary: A highly interactive board book with a simple rhyming text and die-cut holes that allow children's fingers to become elephant trunks in a story about a big and a baby elephant. Very little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become the trunks of Big Elephant and Baby Elephant and tell a simple story. Baby Elephant learns to reach for leaves to munch, suck up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD SCHMarino, Gianna
Summary: "It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food ... and love."--Publisher's webpage
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARAgna, Gwen
Summary: "In this photographic picture book, the authors record and transcribe the words of displaced children, raising up their voices-who they are, where they came from, and the many different reasons that they had to leave their home country."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.7 AGNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.7 AGNWen, Lenny
Summary: Lintang is determined to embrace the spice of sambal in order to connect with her Indonesian grandmother and heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WENMarino, Gianna
Summary: It's daytime and night animals are all sleeping soundly. Well, all except for Possum. Skunk tries to be helpful, pointing out a cave, then a tree, then a den. But the more places Possum tries to sleep, the more night animals he wakes up. Will Bear, Wolf, Skunk, and Possum ever find a good day's rest? The stars of Gianna Marino's Night Animals know what makes kids laugh in this hilarious spin on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of PenguinRandomHouse 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMarino, Gianna
Summary: If I had a horse, he might be shy, like me. But if I stayed quiet, he'd learn to be my friend. I would have to tame him. I would have to be strong, like him. And he would have to be gentle, like me. And together, we could do anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLPalatini, Margie
Summary: "A shark documents its adventures in the ocean with an action camera"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE PALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: JBR ORANGE PALMarkarian, Margie
Summary: "Thwarted in her efforts to be involved in the palace's activities, a young princess with a kind heart and a determined spirit finds opportunities to be useful outside the castle walls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARLarkin, Shabazz
Summary: "A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Readers to Eaters 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LARAwan, Jashar
Summary: "A pair of Christmas tree ornaments set out on the merry adventure of a lifetime in this imaginative picture book about the inner lives of holiday decorations. All is quiet in the forest as the Great Star rises in the distance, and two little musicians, Strum and Drum, wake up from a deep slumber and set out to make the most joyous music they can! But as Strum strums his guitar and Drum drums...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AWAWessels, Marcie
Summary: "A picture book biography of Ralph Baer, nicknamed "The Father of Videogames," which shows how a great inventor found a way to transform the early television set into a vehicle for gaming"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAEGarton, Sam
Summary: When Otter bakes the perfect birthday cake for her best friend Teddy, the cake is so delicious that she might eat it all herself!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: A young child sets out to build the best snowman ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE AWACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AWAPlatt, Cynthia
Summary: Proudly standing out from the crowd at the big Easter egg hunt, Egg waits to hatch a friendship with the perfect kid, in a picture book that includes egg-decorating stickers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PLABarton, Bethany
Summary: "Do you ever wonder where we put all of our garbage, who gets rid of it, or how our planet isn't a big pile of mess? I'm Trying to Love Garbage has all the answers! From scavengers to detritivore to decomposers, nature's garbage collectors are everywhere. But humans play an important role too, and our favorite narrator is back to tell us all about it. With Bethany Barton's trademark balance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: "A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBarton, Chris
Summary: A cool idea with a big splash. You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROSBarton, Bethany
Summary: Entertaining, eye-opening and educational, this deep dive into the microscopic world of germs discusses the microbes in and on our bodies that help us survive, the ones that don't and everything in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.3 BARBarton, Bethany
Summary: Think rocks are boring? Hard to like? Kinda just sit there, doing nothing? Why even write a whole book about them?? Bethany Barton will tell you why . . . because we wouldn't be here if there were no rocks! From the Grand Canyon to volcanoes to diamonds and fossils, geology--the study of rocks--shows us where we've been and where we're going. With tons of humor and scores of fascinating facts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 552 BARBarton, Bethany
Summary: "An enthusiastic bee-loving narrator tries to convince a bee-phobic friend that our fuzzy, flying neighbors are our friends--we should all give bees a chance!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017