Donovan, Sam
Summary: "Daddy is the Mystery Reader at Tori's school today, and he's coming dressed as Miss Rita! Tori helps Daddy gloss, glitter, glamour, and glimmer to get ready. It takes time--because sparkle is serious business! Tori loves helping Daddy become Miss Rita. But will the other kids at school love Miss Rita like Tori does? Luckily, a last-minute idea helps Daddy and Tori find a way to make story time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONRook, Sebastian.
Summary: Jack, a London street urchin, and Ben, the son of an explorer, join forces to save themselves and London from a plague of vampires.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ROOBrom
Summary: "A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom. Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrom
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park--murdered by drug dealers--had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGroom, Winston
Summary: The job-hunting adventures of an unemployed widower with a daughter to support. He is Forrest Gump whose adventures range from selling encyclopedias to discovering New Coke, to the Gulf War during which he captures Saddam Hussein.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROGroom, Winston
Summary: After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: Oliver the bear becomes lost when he chases a leaf to the edge of the woods, but then he comes up with an idea to find his way back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Root,Kupersmith, Violet
Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUPRoot, Phyllis
Summary: Rhyming text explains how a farm can be planted anywhere, including a community garden, using just soil, sunshine, water, and a seed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Envi Iss RootMcBeth, Colette.
Summary: "Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody's neighbor and close friend David Alden was found guilty of the crime and imprisoned, and the attack and David's betrayal of her friendship left Melody a different person. She no longer trusts her own judgment, she no longer trusts her friends. In fact, she no longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBVan Rooy, Michael
Summary: Hoping to put his criminal past behind him while working as a daycare provider, Monty is targeted by local activists and thugs and is forced to balance life on both sides of the law in order to protect his community and loved ones from incrementally violent acts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANGroom, Winston
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROGroom, Winston
Summary: When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonel’s grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRORoot, Andrew
Summary: Fern isn't your usual unicorn...she loves chemistry and math more than glitter or flowers-and she refuses to change who she is in this sweet and empowering picture book about being yourself-and standing up for yourself, too! Meet Fern! She's a smart, creative unicorn who prefers building robots and coding software to jumping through shimmering rainbows and splashing in majestic waterfalls. Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: One winter in the Far North the sun disappears and Lucia, accompanied by her milk-white cat, braves the freezing cold and trolls who want to eat her, trying to find the sun and bring it back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ROORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1998
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Summary: Recounts the exploits of Paul Bunyan's "little" sister, Paula, who lived in the North Woods, sang three-part harmony with the wolves, and used an angry bear for a foot warmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Fairy RootRoot, Phyllis.
Summary: A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ROOGillette, J. Todd.
Summary: Kidnapped by Saginaw Ojibwa at the age of nine, John Tanner lived thirty years as an Indian; it was not until middle age, compelled by racial repudiation, ruined health, and a vestigial sense of place and destiny, that he sought to reclaim his white heritage. Yet every effort to fit in, to be accepted in his original though now all but incomprehensible world, came to tragedy; white society, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: College of Mines Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILRoot, Andrew
Summary: "Meet Fern! She's a smart, creative unicorn who prefers building robots and coding software to jumping through shimmering rainbows and splashing in majestic waterfalls. Even though Fern is a good friend and always willing to help others, the other unicorns tease her and call her a nerdycorn"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Root 2001Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: Pierre lives all alone at the foot of the mountain so he hops in his car to find a friend. Will the car make it to the top of the mountain? Will it get safely down? Will Pierre ever find a friend?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROORoot, Phyllis
Summary: The reader is invited to count the animals and plants that live on or in Minnesota's bogs, marshes, rivers, lakes, prairies, and woods. Includes facts on the state's ecosystems and the plants and animals that make their homes there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC ROORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss her in return for the milk she gives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2000