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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!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD REI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REI

Manushkin, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Zoboi, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOB

Genhart, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEN

Neilsen, 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"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD NIE

Manushkin, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH MAN

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group 2022

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Salazar, 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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SAL

Ross, Ann B.

Summary: With her husband Sam off on a trip to Europe, Miss Julia takes a pause to reflect on the past few decades--realizing how the comforts and joys of her life can sometimes give way to boredom. Miss Julia reckons it's about time to roll up her sleeves and be of some use to her community. She's just considering how to get involved when she hears that the nosy do-gooder Madge Taylor and the new...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROS

Verde, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VER

Bolling, Valerie

Summary: "Celebrating community and friendship, this lively rhyming picture book follows children as they play their way through their culturally diverse neighborhood"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2022

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Lapena, Shari

Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAP

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC LAP

Little, Bentley

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIT

Röstlund, Britta

Summary: Helena Folasadu should of course say no. She doesn't know the man talking to her, she doesn't know Monsieur Bellivier, and she certainly isn't waiting for him. But, bored of life, and sparked by a whim, she says yes. The go-between leads her to a deserted floor in an office building and offers her a large sum of money to sit at a computer and forward emails to Monsieur Bellivier. The emails...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: A big storm is approaching, and Katie, her parents, and all her neighbors head to the grocery store to stock up on necessities--and Katie gets a lesson in smart shopping.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Pekkanen, Sarah

Summary: "Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the United States. It's also one of the most secret-filled"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEK

Miranda, Megan

Summary: "Welcome to Hollow's Edge. A private and idyllic neighborhood, one where neighbors know each other, celebrate graduation and holiday parties together, and look out for one another. But after the sudden deaths of Brandon and Fiona Truett, there's another version of Hollow's Edge, simmering underneath. One where everyone is trapped with each other, suffocated by their trial testimonies, their...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Miranda 2021

Adelman, Melissa A.

Summary: "Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses... When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their second child,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADE

Backman, Fredrik

Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAC

Quindlen, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Quindlen, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUI

Von Ziegesar, Cecily

Summary: Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires, and hidden cameras.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VON

Harris, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HAR

Isadora, Rachel

Summary: Carmelita loves to greet everyone in her colorful neighborhood. There are people from so many different cultures! They all like to say hello too, so now Carmelita can say hello in Spanish, English, French, Japanese, and many other languages. And her dog, Manny? Well, he seems to understand everyone, and gives a happy "Woof!" wherever he goes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOARD ISA

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