Velasquez, Crystal
Summary: Jasmine Arroyo loves volunteering with her veterinarian mom at the Kew Gardens Animal Shelter. When Jasmine learns that the shelter will have to turn away new animals unless it can raise funds to expand, she is determined to help in any way she can. The shelter is throwing a fundraiser and the girls decide to create a kids craft corner. They can draw pictures of all the shelter animals to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE VELSoman, David
Summary: "While at the farmers' market with her mama, Ladybug Girl spies some rescue dogs and, together with the Bug Squad, finds one of them a forever home, vowing to return again to help the others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SOMAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: Zoe is unhappy about leaving Hollywood to live with her cousin, Maggie, and grandmother, Dr. Mac, in Ambler, Pennsylvania, while her mother is away on a film shoot, but soon gets involved in a suspected case of antifreeze poisoning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2012
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Summary: Eighth-grader Ellie is a veteran on her volleyball team, but this year she is frustrated because she is having trouble with her footwork, and she hopes that getting involved with coaching the younger girls in the newly organized after-school group at the Boys and Girls Club will help her work through her problems--besides, it is fun and she was instrumental in setting it up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: When third-grader Billy Burger gets into a fight with the Randy, the school bully, he is suspended, and his parents, while sympathetic, assign him to volunteer for the Shake-a-paw Animal Shelter, which is not so bad, except for the dog poop--and proves to have unexpected benefits when the Randy corners him in an alley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SAZTamaki, Jillian
Summary: A lively celebration of food and community from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki Tie on your apron! Roll up your sleeves! Pans are out, oven is hot, the kitchen's all ready! Where do we start? In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG TAMBarkley, Callie
Summary: Marion volunteers at the Santa Vista Arboretum butterfly release and helps her younger sister Gabby overcome her fear of bugs so she can also attend the event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BARMcCullough, Joy
Summary: Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETKochar, Amandeep S.
Summary: The tenant of Dasvandh is played out through a dueling lemonade-stand story (Jeet, Fudge, Jamal and Tugboat versus two sisters, new to town). Jeet and Fudge set up a very popular lemonade stand in the green space next to the loving library/animal shelter while their mom volunteers at the park clean-up. Their friend, Jamal and his puppy Tugboat is also there with their mom and decide to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOCJones, Christianne C.
Summary: "When Crystal Cove's mayor asks for help, Scooby-Doo and the gang work together to Doo Good in their community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2019
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Summary: When they find abandoned ducklings, the vet volunteers must educate the community about keeping baby animals as Easter pets while also teaching the ducklings how to swim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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Summary: No pets are allowed in the apartment where Suzannah and her family live, so she volunteers at a local pet shelter and plays with the dogs and cats there--but when a child whose family is moving brings in her pet guinea pig, Jelly Bean, Suzannah promises that she will find him the perfect home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LORTamaki, Jillian
Summary: "A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author's note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAMMonroe, Mary
Summary: Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONSteel, Danielle
Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: A group of sato puppies, homeless dogs of various breeds from Puerto Rico, has arrived at the animal shelter, and second grade volunteer Suzannah immediately falls in love with one puppy, Paloma--but it is her job to get the puppy ready for adoption, a separation that could easily break her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LORAbbas, Marzieh
Summary: After a hurricane hits Houston, the family works together to help the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ABBMilano, Alyssa
Summary: "Things are ruff for Hope Roberts. After learning that the local animal shelter might close, Hope decides to do whatever it takes to stop that from happening. Eastern Shore Animal Shelter is where Hope found her two furry best friends. It has to stay open so the other animals can find their fur-ever homes, too! But when the shelter moves up their last day, Hope knows she has to work fast. Can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Milano 2020Papp, Lisa
Summary: After Madeline Finn adopts a puppy, she learns about her local animal shelter and organizes donations and volunteers to improve the lives of the animals there --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Papp 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAPJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002