Summary: Pig has promised to make pies for everyone, but he doesn't have enough letters to make them. Dog has a magical way to help Pig keep his promise - it's all about the letter S. Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he needs to rescue the Little Piggies in out space, he learns that r-o-c-k-e-t works as well. All the friends have a ball trying to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WOR

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD W

Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Summary: In a "A Kooky Spooky Halloween," the WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by NCircle Entertainment 2007

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD W

Betancourt-Perez, Jessica

Summary: Newly arrived from Colombia, Isabella's first day of school in the United States is cancelled because of snow and when Isabella notices a girl playing outside she makes a new friend, despite the language barrier.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BET

Fallon, Jimmy

Summary: "A lot of babies' first words were Dada. However, everything after that was Mama. Readers take a look from a baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to Mama for familiar objects and activities."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019

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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Fallon 2017

Mills, Claudia

Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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

Avant-garde, Zaila

Summary: "Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde teaches young readers about the joy of learning new words in this Step 1 leveled reader"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN AVA

Duplass, Mark

Summary: An unlikely bond develops between a Spanish teacher and her student.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY LAN

Rose, Susan

Summary: When José is selected for the school soccer team, his dog Feliz eagerly helps him practice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Winston, Sam

Summary: Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIN

Dominguez, Angela

Summary: "Two baby giraffes meet a baby ostrich and must guess how their potential new friend is feeling"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOM

Child, Brenda J.

Summary: "When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHI

Berry, Julie

Summary: In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BER

Bernier-Grand, Carmen T.

Summary: Six children are at the park, one group speaks only English and the other only Spanish, but soon they learn to communicate through playing, dancing, and singing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BER

Rose, Susan

Summary: José is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ROS

Blasco, Serena

Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLA

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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Blasco

Winkler, Henry

Summary: When Hank hears that his class is putting on a play, he's the only one who's not excited. That's because every time he tries to read the script, his brain swirls, and it feels like his head is filled with soggy oatmeal. Can Hank get his act together and get a part?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WIN

Gordon, Cambria

Summary: Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians,but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: "The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRU

Sayler, Britt

Summary: "Every night, a giant pit sucked and slurped up everything... And every night, it slurped me up, too... For one young child, nothing has been the same since losing their father. Words won't fit together. Playing soccer is no longer fun. And every night brings the same terrible dream... a black, slurping pit that looks just like the period their father taught about as a grammar teacher. Periods...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SAY