LaCour, Nina
Summary: Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LACWaxman, Abbi
Summary: As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse; Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this! After the shock of seeing Anne Porter in all her extramarital glory, Frances vows to stay in her own lane. But that's a notion easier said than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXPhilippe, Ben
Summary: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHIChabon, Michael
Summary: "With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABenton, Jim.
Summary: Jamie's struggles continue with school issues, grades, and getting along with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J DDDY2 2Brickman, Sophie
Summary: "It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She's a mother of three young children, her workaholic husband is never around, and the vicious competition for spots in New York City's kindergartens is heating up. A New York Times journalist-turned-parenting-advice-columnist for an internet start-up, Annie can't help but judge the insanity of it all-even as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisheres 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRIHibbert, Talia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors--and each other. Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Revolution, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HIBPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kevin impetuously announces that he will run for student body president, mainly to impress his girlfriend Tina, but soon gets excited about making a positive difference in his school and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAUCary, Gemma
Summary: Follows the endless humiliations, unrequited obsessions, and all-consuming friendships of fifteen-year-old Evia Birtwhistle as she leads a body-hair positive revolution at her school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There s Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCall-Smith 2022McQuiston, Casey
Summary: Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she₂s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that₂s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal's perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCQWells, Tina
Summary: Eleven-year-old June Jackson has always been good at making the people around her happy, even if that means avoiding telling them what you really think, but as she starts middle school her fairy godmother puts a spell on her that forces her to speak only the truth--even to her friends and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Summary: Julia has had enough. Enough of the sex noises her roommate makes. Enough of her dead-end government job. Enough of the one-night stand who accused her of breaking his penis. The only thing she hasn't had enough of is orgasms; she hasn't had proper sex in three years. So when Julia gets invited to a warehouse party in a part of town where trendy people who have lots of sex go on a Friday night,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Grumpy Gus is one pirate that complains about everything, even about seeking treasure, an attitude that annoys his fellow pirates--so the Pirate Queen gives Gus an equally grumpy parrot in hopes that it will teach Gus a lesson and make him change his grumpy ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2020
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Summary: "A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays... It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter--who is usually off saving the world--will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: "Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he'd give anything for is a do-over. But that can't happen in real life--can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Mr. J.L.B. Matekone is unsure about how to grow the successful Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. When an old friend approaches him about a new business venture, Mr. Matekone would need to mortgage his property to pursue this endeavor. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi wonder what this will mean for his current business--as well as their own. And Botswana's premier detective agency agree to investigate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCStrohmeyer, Sarah
Summary: "Addie Emerson doesn’t believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she’s more interested in snagging a full scholarship to Harvard than a full-time boyfriend. That doesn’t mean she’s oblivious to the ways of the heart. Or, rather, the head. Because after months of research, Addie has discovered how to make anyone fall in love. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STRGutman, Dan
Summary: This is a fun Level Two I Can Read book based on Dan Gutman's My Weird School series, which has sold more than 12 million books!Join the gang from Ella Mentry School in this hilarious, hijinks-filled sports story as they show young readers why they attend the weirdest--and most fun!--school around. With help from Coach Deen, Ryan wants to form a sports team with A.J. and Andrea, but it's for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCWells, Tina
Summary: Eleven-year-old June must juggle friendship, first love, and the fallout from a newly discovered family secret involving the entire town--all while under a truth-telling spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WELJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANKlune, TJ
Summary: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop's owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KLUMcQuiston, Casey
Summary: After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022