Summary: Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ELO

Pearsall, Shelley

Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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

Woodson, Jacqueline

Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023

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

Niebuhr-Siebert, Sandra

Summary: Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NIE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NIE

Starmer, Aaron

Summary: "It's the first day of the fourth grade at Arthimos Elementary and things are already off to a strange start--poisonous cookies, a zipline disaster, a missing iPad, and what are those strange sounds coming from the school custodian's wheelbarrow? Luckily the Prime Detectives--Abby "the Abacus" Feldstein, Cameron "Cam" McGill, and Gabriel "Gabe" Kim--are on the case! Using arithmetic, geometry,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Odd Dot 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STA

Rand, Johnathan.

Summary: Join Freddie, Chipper, and Darla for one of the wackiest, zaniest dog-gone adventures ever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Audiocraft Pub. 2005

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FF 4

Aubert, Dany

Summary: Martin and his mother talk about Martin's worries about starting school, while his little sister wishes that she was old enough to go, too.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: minedition 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AUB