Reidy, Jean
Summary: "A cast of animal characters are building a brand new playground in a local park and each day of the week contains a different construction plan. The construction project comes together for a rhyming walking tour of a neighborhood, where young readers can learn the days of the week while watching everyone work as a team!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD REICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIWallmark, Laurie
Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALGenhart, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENZoboi, Ibi Aanu
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 ZOBAzúa Kramer, Jackie
Summary: "Every Saturday, Carina visits Tía Mimi in her barrio, which is always humming with life. There is música that hums from the windows, old cuentos floating on the breeze, and the honking of cars that create the soundtrack of the morning. Every Saturday, she loves to make empanadas with her aunt, singing: 'I like empanadas! I like you! ¡ Me gusta empanadas! ¡Me gustas tú!' Not this Saturday,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AZUManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie's Aunt Patty is the new mayor, and Katie and her friends attend her first city council meeting, brimming with ideas about what their neighborhood needs--like free ice cream, puppies, and a new park where children can play in safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MANHastings, Ximena
Summary: "Come along with Daniel Tiger as he finds one hundred things that make him happy in the neighborhood! Join Daniel as he bakes cookies with Baker Aker, reads books with O the Owl, plays with his friends, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HASSalazar, Alicia
Summary: "A video contest is the perfect way for Camila to become a star. To enter, she must make a video that explains what her city, Los Angeles, means to her. But Los Angeles is so big-how will she decide what to talk about? As Camila works on her video, she realizes that there's one special thing that makes her city feel like home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SALStadelmann, Amy Marie
Summary: "Paige loves facts! She is constantly spouting information about everything and anything to anyone who will listen. A group of zebras is called a dazzle. Her street's buildings have seventy-three windows. And the boy named Penn who lives next door is her friend. This unlikely pair couldn't be more different...Paige might know that the ancient Egyptians invented toothpaste, but Penn is sure the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STAVerde, Susan
Summary: Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Grandma Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, Angel and others paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VERZoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner.
Summary: Winnie the Pooh takes a tour of the Hundred Acre Wood on his way to make a neighborly visit to Piglet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 1997
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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE DISNeilsen, David
Summary: "Three children must defeat a mysterious doctor who builds an irresistible and dangerous playground in their neighborhood and then uses his power to heal children who get injured--stealing some of their life essence in the process"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NIEStadelmann, Amy Marie
Summary: "Paige loves facts! She records interesting information in her facts journal and shares it with anyone who will listen. Wombats' poop is cube-shaped! Her street's buildings have seventy-three windows. And a boy named Penn lives next door. The two couldn't be more different. The craziest thing Paige believes is that bananas are actually berries (scientifically proven!), but Penn thinks there's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STASummary: In the four humorous level 1 readers included in this collection, Blippi volunteers at an animal shelter, drives an excavator, takes a walk around his neighborhood, and imagines he's a dinosaur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2022
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Summary: "Celebrating community and friendship, this lively rhyming picture book follows children as they play their way through their culturally diverse neighborhood"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2022
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Summary: Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALHarris, Meena
Summary: "One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard into a playground! Based on a true story, this is the uplifting tale of how the author's aunt and mother first learned to persevere in the face of disappointment and turned a dream into reality. This is a story of children's ability to make a difference and of a community coming together to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HARHibbs, Gillian.
Summary: "Errol loves gardening, but there isn't enough room in his flat to grow everything that he would like. When he discovers a secret but neglected space at the top of the apartment block, he has a wonderful idea, but to carry it out he'll need some help. Surely the other residents will be too busy to help him realize his dream? Or just not interested enough? In this heart-warming tale of common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childs Play 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HIBSummary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "This upbeat picture book--a companion to Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!--follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party. Author and educator Valerie Bolling's rhyming text makes for a rollicking read-aloud and features instruments from all around the world including the agogô, banjo, daegeum, djembe drums, double bass, erhu, maracas, piano, steel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOLHarper, Janelle
Summary: "A picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022