Shiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIArias, Patricia de
Summary: "One night they came ... The darkness grew colder, deeper, darker, and swallowed up everything ... Marwan is a young boy on a journey he never intended to take, bound for a place he doesn't know. On his journey, he relies on courage and memories of his faraway homeland to buoy him. With him are hundreds and thousands of other human beings, crossing the deserts and the seas, fleeing war and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARICrowther, Kitty
Summary: First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most delicious blackberries. In the third we meet Bo, the little man with the big overcoat, who finds it hard to sleep. Finally, Little Bear falls asleep,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2018
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Summary: After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HRADaciūtė, Evelina
Summary: A beautifully illustrated story for children about the nature of happiness. Learn about family, happiness, and friendship in this hope-filled children's book. Our story starts with a boy named Paul, who lives in a cozy treehouse in a big city with his family. And then something unexpected happens - Paul befriends a wise, friendly fox on a walk home from the bakery. The fox gives Paul a space to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DACWatanabe, Issa
Summary: The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the journey is over and the migrants arrive. This is the new place. With forceful simplicity, Migrants narrates the journey of a group of animals leaving a leafless forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WATGarbutt, Loretta
Summary: "A sensitive portrayal of loss and grief, told through a grandchild's inheritance of a stopwatch that belonged to Grampa. In this touching debut picture book about the loss of a beloved grandfather, author Loretta Garbutt explores the stages of grief with a delicate hand. The story opens with our narrator inheriting a stopwatch. For the grandchild, the object carries many cherished memories....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GARPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: "A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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Summary: "Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat -- even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauã and Inaê realize they've left behind something important: their pet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VILBreen, Steve
Summary: "Benny the woodpecker makes a brilliant plan to eat a tasty plate of waffles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: The letters C and K have an argument when K accuses C of stealing all the good words that start with the "k" sound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVYum, Hyewon
Summary: One rainy day, a little boy is upset because he can't go out and play. His mom comes up with a way to keep him entertained - by drawing a picture of herself and him going outside, playing in the rain, and splashing in a giant puddle. They have so much fun drawing themselves that they decide to venture out and make the most of the rainy weather. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YUMDiPucchio, Kelly
Summary: "Everyone loves Bacon but letting his fame go to his head may prove more dangerous than he thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2015
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Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text highlight the animals, fruits, feelings, and colors that characterize each season of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHIReynolds, Aaron
Summary: "A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REYHoffman, Sarah
Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
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Summary: Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books 2011
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Summary: When her parents leave her with a babysitter, Madeleine sneaks outside to play with Carl, their Rottweiler, on a snowy afternoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2009
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Summary: Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sima 2017Leathers, Philippa
Summary: A confident but inexperienced cat is certain she has scared all the mice out of her house, but things are not always as they seem. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEAAlemagna, Béatrice
Summary: Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2017
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Summary: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCIAlessandri, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEFleming, Candace
Summary: Bulldozer wants to invite all of his co-workers to a party to celebrate his special day, but to them it is just another day for scooping, sifting, stirring, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015