Bowles, David (David O.)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWLouis, Édouard
Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALBAiles, Kat
Summary: For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AILKanakia, Naomi
Summary: "Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is, judged on her merits--not on her transness. But there's no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she's thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Sometimes, an ordinary walk can become something ... magical! Tag along with Ruby as she discovers that even big cities have a wild side"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Cornell Lab Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOMullen, Diane C.
Summary: Count the ways two hands, three days cleaning up, four planter boxes, and many more steps show how city neighbors transform one little abandoned lot into a beautiful community garden.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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Summary: When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBBehar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEHPujji, Deepika Kaur
Summary: Ricky wears a head covering called a patka to protect his uncut hair. Join Ricky to learn about some of the customs and core beliefs of the Sikh people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUJEvans, Harriet
Summary: Can you see all Chameleon's colors? Jump into the jungle with this animal-shaped board book and join the creatures for a raucous rainbow romp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2021
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Summary: "A story of nocturnal animals at different points on the food chain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAPJennings, Terry Catasús
Summary: Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother in Virginia, where Dom hopes they can continue to have a lot of fun adventures. As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat. There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC JENJohn-Kehewin, Wanda
Summary: "A new girl at school. A mysterious crow. Weird visions he can't explain. Grade 12 just got a lot more complicated for Damon Quinn... "Your ancestors have called us to help you." "I think you have the wrong number." Damon Quinn just wants to get through his senior year unscathed. His mom struggles with alcohol and is barely coping with the day-to-day. Marcus and his cronies at school are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JOHTan, Shaun
Summary: A collection of illustrated short stories, each one about the relationship of humans and the animals, both wild and domestic, that share the urban environment of the inner city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TANWalters, Damien Angelica
Summary: "In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real - and she could prove it. That belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PERKim, Hyŏng-gyŏng.
Summary: Author Kim Hyeong Gyeong tells the story of seventeen-year-old Nieun's ordeal--she lost her parents in a car accident-- and portrays a full range of human emotions. This compelling and deeply moving story of family, friendship, loss, and overcoming hardship is illustrated through whales and the people in her father's hometown Cheoyongpo, a small fishing village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ch'angbi 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FORBurkhart, Jessica.
Summary: Thanksgiving break is approaching, but no one's even close to relaxing, especially not Lauren, who is dealing with boyfriend issues and training to test for the advanced team while fighting feelings of jealousy toward another rider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin M!X 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC BURBurkhart, Jessica.
Summary: An anonymous tell-all blog reveals the secrets of Sasha and her friends to all of Canterwood Crest Academy, and the girls must find out who is turning their secrets into campus-wide scandals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin M!x 2010
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC BURSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007