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Genhart, Michael

Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEN

Whitehill, Miry

Summary: Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHI

Lennon, John

Summary: Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one. Join one little pigeon as she sets out on a journey to spread a message of tolerance around the world. Featuring the lyrics of John Lennon's iconic song and illustrations by the award-winning artist Jean Jullien, this poignant and timely...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LEN

Luchsinger, Dena.

Summary: While being smart and strong are useful traits, loving other people just because God made them is always good.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set Spanish Luchsinger 2007

Applegate, Katherine

Summary: An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD APP

Chung, Arree

Summary: Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE CHU

Summary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002

Hong, Jess

Summary: "Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HON

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HON

Mantchev, Lisa

Summary: "Hoy es día del club de las mascotas. Habrá gatos y perros y peces, pero no se permiten elefantes. El club de las mascotas no entiende que las mascotas pueden ser de todos los tamaños y las formas, al igual que los amigos. Ahora llegó el momento de que un niño y su elefantito les demuestre lo que significa ser un amigo de verdad."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH MAN

Applegate, Katherine

Summary: An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION APP

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC APP

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Applegate 2017

Lyga, Barry

Summary: Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged fathers leading up to the crime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LYG

Summary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EAS

Applegate, Katherine

Summary: "Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree" -- people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experience...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC APP

Hoefler, Kate

Summary: "They came in the dark, and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that's what they were . . .But what if everyone was wrong? Watch what happens when one girl steps into the woods and gets to know these newcomers. The spooky black cat? Meet Mingus! The broomsticks and cloaks? Cloth and wooden handles. And those shadows in the sky? Handmade kites, fluttering in the breeze....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOE

Steiner, Jeanette

Summary: Quasimodo, the kindhearted and deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, struggles to gain acceptance into society as he tries to help his friend escape from a vicious government minister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DIS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DIS

Leftah, Mohamed

Summary: "In this poignant account of a classmate's suicide, the acclaimed Moroccan author gives both a biting critique of small-town bigotry in the 1960s and a moving tribute to the fleeting beauty of adolescence. In Settat in the 1960s, when it was still a tiny village, a young man leapt to his death in front of his stunned class and their teacher, left holding a brief, devastating suicide note. Among...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEF

Luciani, Brigitte.

Summary: Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LUC

Rania

Summary: Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010

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Wood, Douglas

Summary: Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOO

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann

Summary: A young squirrel disagrees with his parents who want to exclude such newcomers as the blue jays, chipmunks, and beavers from the squirrels' woodland neighborhood.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COC

Marnier, Richard

Summary: When one resident of a place where all the houses are alike and everyone does things at the same time leaves the lights on at night, the neighbors are scandalized, but when he builds a new, distinctive house others begin to follow his lead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

hooks, bell

Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HOO

Dumont, Jean-Francois

Summary: When a friendly hedgehog visits the farm, the chickens build an enormous wall to keep out "prickly invaders."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUM

Mantchev, Lisa

Summary: A boy is excluded from joining his friends' pet club because of his unusual pet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Social Mantchev

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