Aziz, Susannah
Summary: Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AZISingh, Sita
Summary: Despite his friends' support, Mo is sad about being the only white peacock in a colorful jungle until the night of the big dance, when he discovers that being different can feel great.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SINSingh, Nalini
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh dives beneath the surface of her Psy-Changeling world into a story of passionate devotion and selfless love... Security specialist Bowen Knight has come back from the dead. But there's a ticking time bomb in his head: a chip implanted to block telepathic interference that could fail at any moment--taking his brain along with it. With no time to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINSingh, Komal
Summary: Ara loves big numbers - BIG numbers. She wants to program her droid DeeDee <Beep!> to count all the stars, but she's not sure how. In this upbeat adventure, Ara visits Innovation Plex to enlist the help of four tech trailblazers - inspiring real-life engineers of Google. With her new friends, Ara discovers an algorithm for success that can solve BIG problems and be lots of fun: courage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Mandanna, Sangu
Summary: "The first book in a scifi retelling of the Mahabrahata. When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return to. In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANRingo, John
Summary: "With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINYing, Jonathan
Summary: A busy day at Rabbit's Lost and Found sees him helping animals find their missing instruments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YINJefferies, Dinah
Summary: Belle Hatton is a beautiful young girl living in Gloucestershire, who's never been further East than Paris. But when her father dies, she finds a mysterious newspaper clipping from Burma, 1911 buried among his belongings - a clipping that says the Hattons were leaving Rangoon after the disappearance of their baby daughter, Elvira. How could her parents have kept this from her for so long? Was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFJohnson, Dinah
Summary: A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating a vision of home, as well as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHSinger, Marilyn
Summary: "From morning to night, a cat and dog who live together show their innate feline and canine natures. The dog barks at the delivery man while the cat barely notices; the dog runs out to play when the children return from school, while the cat prefers to keep napping on the soft couch. Neither gets the better of the other in their rhyming interchanges, and by day's end they realize that, despite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Mook-Sang, Jennifer
Summary: "When grandma moves in, a precocious child shares her tips for making her feel at home in this funny picture book, for fans of How to Babysit a Grandma."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOOWing, Natasha
Summary: In rhyming text, a family celebrates the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE WINWing, Natasha
Summary: In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a family, decked in red, white, and blue, heads to the Fourth of July parade, hosts a backyard BBQ with neighbors, dodges an afternoon thundershower, and watches the fireworks show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINChen, Te-Ping
Summary: "A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESinger, Marilyn
Summary: Poodle's hair just grows and grows until it is so long it overflows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SINZhang, Ling
Summary: There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINSong, Mika
Summary: Because no one will deliver the pizza they crave, Norma and Belly must get creative, so with the help of their friends, these squirrels find a way to get a pizza, even if it means taking on a wild beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SONFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series." Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Finch 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FINSong, K. X.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn't want big; she just wants home. The trouble is, she doesn't know where that is...until the Hong Kong protest movement unfolds, and she learns the city she's come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SONLe, Minh
Summary: A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWing, Natasha
Summary: In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a child is filled with excitement and anticipation while helping with preparations for the next day's birthday party, and even an ice cream emergency cannot spoil the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINWing, Natasha
Summary: In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," Billy is too nervous to sleep the night before he begins preschool, but a kind teacher and new friends fill the day with fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD WINSinger, Marilyn
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray animals of all kinds hurrying to a very special destination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SINFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up - just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015