Climo, Shirley.
Summary: Long ago in Germany, an old woman cleans her house and decorates her Christmas tree, hoping that this year she will witness some special Christmas Eve magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC CLILawlor, Laurie
Summary: "After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWMcMullan, Kate
Summary: In rhyming text, a classroom of children watches the tree they planted, and the birds and animals that make their homes in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCMKelly, Erin Entrada
Summary: Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The dead-pan narration in this debut picture book delivers a perfect child-like vision with humor and panache, depicted in luminous detail. A little boy shows what happens when he drops larger and larger objects, both in terms of size and imagination, down a mysterious hole that grows throughout the year in his garden. But what happens in December?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STEValentini, Cristiana
Summary: "A moving tale of love, fear, and the courage of letting go. Beyond the hill where the tree lives, lies Who Knows Where. Every year when the wind blows, the tree's seeds sail to this mysterious place--until the day an especially tiny seed decides to remain on its branch. At first, the tree feels the seed should leave. If it doesn't, it will never grow roots of its own. But the tree also feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2020
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Summary: The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLHoráček, Petr.
Summary: Suzy Goose tries again and again to get a star for the Christmas tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HORYuly, Toni
Summary: A curious child wonders if tiny trees dream of being big, if the tallest trees get lonely, and what part is the heart of a tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YULColfer, Chris
Summary: A friendless girl who is teased for being different runs away from her village in tears and finds herself having a conversation with a very unusual tree, who tells a story of how his differences not only saved his life, they helped him see that he is not so very different after all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLApplegate, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD APPBranford, Anna
Summary: Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JBR RED BRAPope, Elodie
Summary: These pint-sized books talk about everday things in an extraordinary way. Celebrate your baby's fascination with the little things in his orher big world as you read them together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2017
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Summary: An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POWCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Powers 2018Munsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Grandma asks Lincoln and Georgia to decorate the Christmas tree, she has no idea what she's getting into. Grandma is baking Christmas cookies, so she asks Lincoln and Georgia to decorate the tree.They put on the lights, and the garlands, and the balls, and the candy canes. Then Olivia runs upstairs and brings back a toy bird. She puts it on a branch, turns it on and it goes TWEET TWEET...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Winds Press 2019
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE MUNLuyken, Corinna
Summary: Through text and illustrations of children reveling in nature, explores the various ways we as human beings are strong, creative, and connected to others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUYCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUYVignocchi, Chiara
Summary: It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly - he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree - a little to the right (shake) ... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - uh-oh - something else is falling from the tree, and it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VIGBailey, Dale
Summary: American Charles Hayden came to England to forget the past. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles hopes to put his life back together with a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood. But soon after settling into Hollow's remote Yorkshire home, Charles learns that the past isn't dead. And every morning the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIKiernan, Caitlín R.
Summary: Sarah Crowe left Atlanta to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant, a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on the property. Tied to local legends of supernatural magic, accidents, and murders, the gnarled tree takes root in Sarah's imagination, prompting her to write her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEPowers, Richard
Summary: The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POWSelznick, Brian
Summary: "Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELDavidson, Zanna
Summary: "Zoe is staying with her great-aunt when she discovers a magical world full of fairy unicorns. But Zoe soon finds out that Unicorn Island is in terrible danger. Can Zoe and her new friend Astra, save the island - before it's too late? Fairy Unicorns is an exciting new series of original, illustrated fiction with easy-to-read text. It's perfect for newly fluent readers who are ready for longer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAVHutta, K. Emily
Summary: When Pooh's favorite tree starts drying up, he and his friends reminisce about everything the tree has given them over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Hutta 2010Ray, Mary Lyn.
Summary: Wilma decides to plant Christmas trees with the help of her young neighbor, Parker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2022