Acevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEGivhan, Jennifer
Summary: "When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIVAdams, Ellery
Summary: "When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic . . . As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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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 BOWAraghi, Ali
Summary: "As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing world. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARAMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: "A little girl wants to write poetry. One sumer day, she explores a town on Cape Cod, along with the poet who lives nearby. Inspired by the life and craft of Mary Oliver."--Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MACNelson, Colleen
Summary: To escape her small town, her parents crumbling marriage, and her drug-addicted brother, Hope jumps at the chance to attend the exclusive Ravenhurst Academy. But her problems follow her to school, her online boyfriend asks her to pose for some photos that go viral, and Hope falls into a dark place she is not sure she can find her way out of.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NELZambra, Alejandro
Summary: Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAMPercival, Tom
Summary: Alfonzo the goat is very happy wearing his new coat to stroll through the forest, but as he helps a series of friends in need, his coat becomes increasingly shabby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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Summary: "Stink can't wait to lay eyes on the Sherman-Holm comet. Until he hears the news that a meteorite hit Russia, that is. Who's to say that Frog Neck Lake, Virginia, isn't next? Enter Asteroid Boy (aka Stink), who, with Judy Moody as his copilot, bravely explores deep space."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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Summary: On Sunday, Mr. Jenkins welcomes one pig into his pool, and as the week progresses, the number of pigs in his pool increases exponentially, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LANMayer, Mercer
Summary: Little Critter and his dad take their boat to sea to go whale watching and find that the ocean is a great place for adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, has outgrown her favorite pair of boots. Her mom saves the day by taking her to the shoe store. Learn your colors with Ladybug Girl as she tries on new shoes and finds the perfect pair: red boots with black polka dots"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR ORANGE SOMTanabe, Gou
Summary: "In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents--its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who traveled to Innsmouth in search of rumors from the town's dead past, only to find them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TANWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021
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Summary: It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOLDavies, Nicola
Summary: A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graffeg 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAVPhilip, Simon
Summary: Before a little girl has a chance to name the cat that arrives unexpectedly at her house, he disappears again only to be replaced by another "pet," Steve the gorilla.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Perfect for hands-on learning, this book follows a ladybug on a magical adventure where she learns colors with her animal friends. The exciting peep-through cover and tactile glittery finishes on every page inspire interactive learning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD SIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE SIRJenoff, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENBunting, Eve
Summary: Frog invites Chameleon to his annual fall party despite his friends' protests, is embarrassed to learn that he is watched when he dances, and is captured by a girl who wants to turn him into a prince.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Bunting 2011Dixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Frank and Joe travel to Philadelphia where they intend to prevent an attack on an extreme sports contest called the Big Air Games.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXMills, Lauren A.
Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015