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LeZotte, Ann Clare

Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Messenger, Shannon

Summary: "Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she's determined to find her kidnappers-before they come after her again. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MES

Sellers, Bakari

Summary: "When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, "Who are your people?" and "Where are you from?" In these pages is a timeless celebration of the individuals and experiences that help shape young children into the most remarkable and unique beings that they can be"--Jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SEL

Fahmy, Huda

Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 FAH

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 FAH

Alexander, Rilla

Summary: "How far can you go? How much do you know? How kind are you? These are just a few of the impossible but inevitable questions every child has asked and every parent has had to ponder. In a journey filled with wit and imagination, You Rule! maps and measures those immeasurables, offering readers a rich palette of words to describe and explore ideas and feelings."--Front cover flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Callender, Kacen

Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Hall, Michael

Summary: Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAL

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAL

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAL BASKET

Benway, Robin

Summary: Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEN

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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

Coppo, Marianna

Summary: "What is a thingamabob? A thingamabob can be anything . . . and so can you! A sweet, empowering picture book about self-discovery from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra. In the beginning, the universe was one great big thing. Then that thing exploded into gobs and gobs of thingamabobs. All of the thingamabobs had a purpose . . . all except for one small, shapeless thingamabob. No one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COP

Kelly, Lynne

Summary: "Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

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Walton, Julia

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe Townsend created her blog, The Circle in the Square, as a place for her research into sex, and now she answers other teens' questions while trying to stay anonymous, but as the number of her followers rises, Phoebe finds herself exposed to the darker side of social media.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022

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

Ramos, Vanessa

Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAM

Wade, Stef

Summary: Shocked to be stripped of his planet status, Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. Includes educational materials.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

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Harrison, Vashti

Summary: Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Harrison

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAR

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HAR

Johnston, E. K.

Summary: Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2021

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

Madden, Tobias

Summary: Luca's entire identity and future are entwined around dance until he loses his performing arts scholarship after a debilitating injury. Gutted and demoted to public school attendee, the only bright spots in his new future are two friends he quickly makes, but knowing that one is gorgeous, popular, and avowed heterosexual, Luca can't help feeling he is setting himself up for another heartbreak.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022

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

McNeil, Gretchen

Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCN

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: In profound, uplifting verse and sumptuous artwork, beloved creators Matt de la Pena and Corinna Luyken explore the endless possibilities each child contains: A young dancer may grow into a computer coder; a basketball player might become a poet; a class clown may one day serve as an inspiring teacher; and today's quiet empath might be tomorrow's great leader. Here's a profound and uplifting...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE L

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: "An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE L

Gonzalez, Christina Diaz

Summary: How can you be yourself when no one sees the real you? Five students meet in the school cafeteria when they're forced to complete their school community service hours. There's George: the brain, Sara: the loner, Dayara: the tough kid, Nico: the rich kid, And Miguel, the jock. They immediately know that they have nothing in common with each other ... even though their school administration has...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GON

Florence, Melanie

Summary: Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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

Liu, Linda

Summary: "When a small pebble sees others gathering on the steps of the Museum of Rocks, he grows curious. Once inside the esteemed halls, he is shocked by what he discovers. The only rocks on display are glittering gemstones, geodes, and crystals! These beautiful stones make him wonder: Can he be special, too? Perhaps he'll find an answer in the World's Most Beautiful Gem exhibition ... or maybe, just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIU

Thomas, Rebecca

Summary: "What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

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