Cash, Wiley
Summary: Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CashAdefris, Fasika
Summary: Follows how a Gabi is made in Ethiopia from seed to harvest, to weaving to shop, to gift for Girma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: With fabric scrap treasures, a mother makes her son clothes fit for royalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PAUYockteng, Rafael
Summary: "This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids 2023
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Summary: "Curious George watches Jumpy the squirrel bury an acorn in the yard. Upon learning that Jumpy is storing food for later, George decides to do the same. The man with the yellow hat comes home to find the kitchen empty and its contents buried in the yard! It"s time to teach George about what things grow and what don"t. George finally gets it right when he grows a beautiful sunflower from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE REY (purple)Summary: Brian O'Conner goes undercover to investigate illegal street racers in Los Angeles; after losing his job for letting Dominic Toretto escape, O'Conner seeks redemption in a street racing investigation with drug connections; Steve Boswell travels to Tokyo to live with his father to avoid a jail sentence and gets involved in drift racing; O'Conner teams up with fugitive Toretto to bring down a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now provides for everybody's basic needs. In which nobody living can remember an actual war. In which it is illegal for three or more people to gather for the practice of religion--but ecumenical "sensayers" minister in private, one-on-one. In which gendered language is archaic, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION PatersonKraulis, Julie
Summary: "Pepper is getting a dress made for a special occasion. It's the first dress that has ever been made just for her, and she wants it to be perfect. But what pattern is right for her? Pepper is particular, and nothing works at first. Dotted Swiss? Too plain. Houndstooth? Not enough color. Pinstripe? Too glum. As Pepper learns about each fabric, she finds a reason why it's just not the one. Will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRABolling, Valerie
Summary: On a rainy day, a young artist struggles to find inspiration--until she remembers all the things she loves that are black and white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR GREEN BOLLasky, Kathryn.
Summary: When the Band is exiled, old friends, loyal family and allies devise a plan to free young king Coryn and the tree from the hold of Striga, a former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom beyond the Unnamed Sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASBolling, Valerie
Summary: Zoya wants to give her dog Coco a birthday present, and with her mother's help finally settles on painting his bowl gold, with lots of glitter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic, Inc. 2023
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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JBR GREEN BOLBarnes, Steven.
Summary: An experimental technique to teach high-risk children the strategies that will allow them to succeed in life takes a nightmarish turn when it is discovered that the model for the project had a terrifying secret life that has been passed on to the children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARDuncan, Pamela
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSummary: Celebrate a decade of debauchery with Season Twelve of TV's most outrageously funny comedy. Join your favorite demented bar owners for a new round of misguided dreams and blundered schemes. This time around the gang tackles their most hilarious challenges yet: like besting the legendary beer drinking record of baseball's Wade Boggs and conquering the wacky world of online dating. Plus, Mac and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SSummary: After an injury and losing her college basketball scholarship, a young woman returning home struggles to rebuild her life as she and her family in Flint, Michigan face internal turmoil and the aftermath of a deadly water crisis. The bonds of family are all they have left as they rebuild their lives, their town, and their hope for their future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLIFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: "Lucy is happy painting the color of laughter in her garden, but loses her way when she follows feedback from a series of animal critics. With wise encouragement from her cat, Lucy finds her authentic self in her work again and painting is rewarding once more."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FERLong, Ethan
Summary: "Queremos que cada nuevo lector diga: "¡Me gusta leer!".--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH LONSmith, Nikkolas
Summary: Motivated by the realization of global inequities, a young boy embraces his dual identities as an artist and activist, becoming an "Artivist" to make a difference by using his viral mural as a catalyst for positive change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SMIWilliams, Sam
Summary: The animals of Noah's Park visit the art barn, where they put on their painting smocks, choose brushes, paint, and paper, and paint lovely pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD WILSummary: East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARDeutsch, Stacia
Summary: "Emily Jones has been called back to the magical land of Elvendale--the elves need her help! An evil elf witch is trying to gain control, and has destroyed the trust between elves and dragons. Even worse, she has captured the dragon queen and one of her eggs! The elves have rescued her four other dragon eggs... but they don't have long before the eggs hatch and need their mother. Emily and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016