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Summary: "The tiger is the most fearless animal in the jungle, but when hunters take him to a cage in the city he discovers there is something much more valuable than strength or power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBMaddox, Jake.
Summary: Alex has just moved and joined a new soccer team, where she is expected to play a different position; when her error leads to the team's first loss she has to learn to put aside her pride and put the team first.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MADHolub, Joan
Summary: Athena's arrogance throws a wrench into her plans to improve King Minos's labyrinth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLManushkin, Fran
Summary: When Pedro keeps "losing" his eyeglasses, Katie shows him why it is alright--and necessary--to wear them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANShriver, Lionel
Summary: Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRMercado, Yehudi
Summary: Billy Batson's new new strength and stamina as superhero Shazam should make it easy for him to join the football team, but his ego may get in the way of success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MERZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBTripp, Valerie
Summary: In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. Publications 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIBenjamin, A. H.
Summary: Although Giraffe cannot see well, she refuses to wear eyeglasses because she thinks they will make her look silly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon Pub. 2006
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Summary: When Six, a pink armadillo with nine green siblings, brags that he is "#1" in everything, his family expresses a different opinion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RadunSharmat, Marjorie Weinman.
Summary: Jason Bear thinks he's terrific and even awards himself gold stars for superior performance in his chores. His friends don't like to be around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1977
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Summary: A selfish man sets out to prove that he is the boss of everything he surveys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JEFDesierto, Derek
Summary: "It's SO hot outside. All the fancy birds are gathered around the water, wishing they could cool off. But they don't want to get wet and ruin their fine feathers. Oddbird isn't worried about his feathers; he wants to go for a refreshing dip. But he doesn't fit in. He's not fancy, or colorful. He's just...different. The other birds don't want him around. How can he join them?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DESFrost, Maddie
Summary: A smug seagull that loves swiping beach-goers' snacks gets a taste of his own medicine from a patient crab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRODokey, Cameron
Summary: In this retelling of the Perrault fairy tale, Cendrillon's father, grief stricken over the death of his wife, leaves his baby daughter to be brought up by servants together with an unidentified infant boy until the day, sixteen years later, when a new stepmother with two daughters arrives and changes their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOKBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect. Kaya's story of adventure in the wilderness is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a Native American girl in 1764 in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge doesn't mean carrying a book around constantly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1950
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUVStubbs, Tommy.
Summary: In this version of the "Tortoise and the Hare" fable, two train engines compete in a race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STUShaw, Janet Beeler
Summary: In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company 2002
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Summary: An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 FICTION SAI1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH FIC SAI
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 DES FRENCHJohn, Jory
Summary: "Don't miss the seventh picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Food Group series from Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC, 2023
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Summary: An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000