Chen, Nathan
Summary: "Olympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion Nathan Chen delivers an inspirational picture book about facing your fears and finding the joy in sports, no matter the outcome. Wei has loved ice-skating ever since his first visit to the rink. He loves gliding across the ice, taking flight on jumps, and moving with the music--there's nothing else like it! But as Wei's first big competition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEMagruder, Nilah
Summary: "Equipped with a camera and determination, an adventurous little girl tries to track down an elusive red fox, which proves more difficult than she thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Joy, Mackenzie
Summary: "People call you a wallflower. Sometimes they call you shy. Sometimes they call you quiet, or maybe even scared. People think these are bad things, because sometimes they are LOUD. But you are happy just the way you are. And maybe you don't need to learn to be loud, they just need to learn to listen. Mackenzie Joy beautifully pairs her gorgeous illustrations with minimalist text in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOYAntonissen, Bianca
Summary: "When little bird Tim hatches from his egg, the other birds say he should learn how to fly. All the fathers and mothers give him their best advice. But Tim isn't so sure. Does he really have to do what everyone else is doing?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTPaulsen, Gary
Summary: Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Sharp, Sid
Summary: "Bellwether Riggwelter is out of blackberries. While he loves gathering treats and roaming the forest, he dreads running into the very dangerous wolves. To protect himself, he builds the ultimate disguise: a wolf suit. And it works...sort of."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHAEdge, Christopher
Summary: "It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EDGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC EDGJacobson, Jennifer
Summary: Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT JFiction Jacobson 2011Wiles, Deborah.
Summary: When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCote, Nancy
Summary: When Sam is called away, best friend Mousey protects his cookie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTZappia, Francesca
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZAPBest, Cari.
Summary: When Sally Jean outgrows her beloved bicycle, Flash, she experiments with various ideas for acquiring a new, bigger one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESMurphy, Jim
Summary: Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DALarson, Kirby.
Summary: In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARLarson, Kirby
Summary: After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LARRoe, Monica
Summary: Twelve-year-old Emmie is working to raise money for a tricked-out wheelchair to get serious about WCMX, when a mishap on a poorly designed ramp at school throws her plans into a tailspin. Emmie loves her close-knit rural town, but she can't shake the feeling that her goals, and her choices, suddenly aren't hers anymore. With the help of her best friends, Emmie makes a plan to get her dreams off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC ROEFenske, Jonathan
Summary: An independent pill bug learns that sometimes a friend is necessary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)
Summary: "Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYJacobson, Jennifer
Summary: Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JACPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2012Paulsen, Gary
Summary: As listeners of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he faced the elements and lived on the edge of death. Now that he's back in civilization, he can't make sense of ordinary life. High school leaves him feeling more isolated than when he was by himself in the wild. He misses the woods so much that he'd go crazy if he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Hill, Susanna Leonard
Summary: From the beginning of a dream, through all of the trials and challenges, and finally at its realization, your beloved Sesame Street friends offer advice and encouragement in Dream to remind you to dream big, believe in yourself, and never give up--because all that you need for success is already in you!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2019
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Summary: "Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paulsen 2016Gregory, Philippa
Summary: "Florizella made some very unusual friends and set off around the kingdom on the most mammoth of adventures..."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens Books 2022