Tanaka, Shelley.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 910.9 TANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Around TanakaTanaka, Shelley.
Summary: Ever since Amelia Earhart and her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, people have wanted to know more about this remarkable woman. Amelia Earhart follows the charismatic aviator from her first sight of an airplane at the age of ten to the last radio transmission she made before she vanished. Illustrated with original artworks, contemporary photographs, quotes, and details, this is a great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARTanaka, Shelley.
Summary: Uses a fictionalized account of the life of the steward of an important estate to describe the ancient Italian city of Pompeii and what happened to it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.7 TanTanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANPasquet, Jacques
Summary: "The environment is an essential but sometimes tough and weighty concept to grasp. This engaging nonfiction book takes readers back to the basics, offering an accessible overview of what makes up our environment, how those parts work, and why they matter. Divided into five sections--water, air, soil, energy, and climate--the book uses facts, figures, and simple language to give an overarching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577 PASHébert, Marie-Noëlle
Summary: "A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 HEBTeckentrup, Britta
Summary: An ode to the weather invites readers to find a new sense of awe, wonder, and understanding of the weather, and shows the links between weather, climate change, and human activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.6 TECFontaine, Valérie
Summary: "The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.829 FONWohlleben, Peter
Summary: "In this highly visual, fun, and interactive book, kids will get to know all sorts of animals, from birds and caterpillars in their own backyard, to grizzly bears in chilly Alaska, to puffer fish in the waters of Australia. Through a mix of at-home activities, facts, stories, and pictures,kids will learn: how to spot animal homes and follow their movements, how our actions impact animals and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids, Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 WOHGathen, Katharina von der
Summary: "A compendium of all the weird and wonderful ways the animal kingdom reproduces ... it covers courting rituals ... physiology ... pregnancies ... devoted fathers ... animal babies"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2021
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Summary: It all started on Dulcinea's birthday, when she wanted blueberries with her pancakes. Her father went into the forest near their house to pick the fruit, and he didn't come back! Even though she had promised never to go into the forest--where a witch lived, as everyone knew--Dulcinea was determined to find her father. So she went into the forbidden forest after him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KONMoüy, Iris de
Summary: When the animals on the savanna get grumpy, one little girl knows how to help them get some sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOUSerres, Alain
Summary: "From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I Have the Right to Be a Child comes this beautifully illustrated picture book about a child's right to advocate for the environment they live in. Told from the perspective of a child, this colorful and vibrant book explores what it means to be a child who dreams of a beautiful future for their planet."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.3 SER1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SER
Weiss-Tuider, Katharina
Summary: "For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken--and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing--fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023