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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Conduct of life Juvenile fiction Indians of North America Northwest, Pacific Juvenile fiction Northwest, Pacific Juvenile fiction Pride and vanity Pride and vanity Fiction Pride and vanity Juvenile fiction Racially mixed people Fiction Swans Fiction Urban renewal FictionHoráček, Petr
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 HOLDokey, 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 DOKMercado, 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 MERShaw, Stephanie
Summary: "Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his silky tail, to the point where he alienates his fellow woodland creatures with his boasting. When it is flattened in an accident (of his own making), he learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an Ojibwe legend"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHAManushkin, 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 MANZoboi, 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 ZOBDraper, Robert.
Summary: In this press-wary administration, journalist Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. With access to all the key figures of this administration and perhaps 200 other players, Draper delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.93 DRADuvoisin, Roger
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 DUVSummary: Rafael is very charming salesman to the ladies in the deluxe department store he works in, but when he doesn't get the position of manager, he changes his whole attitude. When his rival goes missing, Rafael becomes the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERBerne, 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: 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 RadunMcAfee, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodland Publications 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.435 MCAShriver, 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 SHRStubbs, 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 STUJohn, 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 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 FRENCHSharmat, 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: 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: Written by veteran journalists, this is the inside story of how President Bush took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It takes us behind the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. Filled with new revelations, Hubris is a narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.70 ISICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ISIBurns, Eric.
Summary: Profiles of the Founding Fathers of the United States evaluate their lives, careers, and specific contributions to the U.S. Constitution, in a historical assessment that illuminates their motivations while explaining how their shared vision remains relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2007