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Macaulay, David.

Summary: Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1990

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott Macaulay

Scieszka, Jon

Summary: Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Sci

McCloskey, Robert

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1941

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCC

Williams, Vera B.

Summary: Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Polacco, Patricia

Summary: Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1990

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Mayfield, Percy

Contents: Jack you ain't nowhere (part 1) -- Jack you ain't nowhere (part 2) -- Two years of torture (Gru-V-Tone version) -- Woman get way back -- Half awake : Baby you're still a square -- Two years of torture (Supreme version) -- How wrong can a good man be -- Leary blues -- Please send me someone to love -- Strange things happening -- Life is suicide -- Lost love : Baby please come back to me -- What...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jasmine Records 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MAY

Yolen, Jane

Summary: A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOL

Duvoisin, Roger

Summary: Petunia, the goose, learns that possessing knowledge doesn't mean carrying a book around constantly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1950

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUV

Sasek, M. (Miroslav)

Summary: A pictorial tour of the "promised land" presenting drawings of the historic sights and modern city and town life in Israel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1962

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 915.694 SAS

Clements, Andrew

Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1988

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLE

Morales, Yuyi

Summary: In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind. In this original trickster tale, Senor Calavera arrives unexpectedly at Grandma Beetle's door. He requests that she leave with him right away. "Just a minute,"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MOR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MOR

Cooper, Caren B. (Caren Beth)

Summary: "Think you need a degree in science to contribute to important scientific discoveries? Think again. All around the world, in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology, millions of everyday people are choosing to participate in the scientific process. Working in cooperation with scientists in pursuit of information, innovation, and discovery, these volunteers are following protocols, collecting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 COO

AGF (Musical group)

Contents: Ekaterina Urusova 1747-1816 -- Anna Bunina 1774-1829 -- Zinaida Gippius 1869-1945 -- Elena Guro 1877-1913 -- Emma Goldman 1869-1940 -- Alexandra Kollontai 1872-1952 -- Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966 -- Marina Tsvetaeva 1892-1941 -- Nadezhda Mandelstam 1899-1980 -- Olga Berggoltz 1910-1975 -- Elena Shvartz 1948-2010 -- Unknown Russian Astronaut 1961 -- Anna Politkovskaya 1958-2006 -- Anna Gorenko...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AGF

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Summary: A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1916

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 SCH

McBride, Lish.

Summary: Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Shusterman, Neal

Summary: Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SHU

Laux, Dorianne

Summary: A collection drawn from Laux's five expansive volumes, and including new poems that pay homage to her mother. Laux finds expression in earthy and lyrical depictions of working-class America, while exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration. -- adapted from jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LAU

DiPucchio, Kelly

Summary: "A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park."--Title page verso.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DIP

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIP

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dipucchio

Adams, Richard

Summary: Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1974

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Summary: "What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MAL

Sappho.

Summary: "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 489.3 SAP

Sorell, Traci

Summary: Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.04 SOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native Sorell

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.04 SOR

Summary: Combines photography with lyrical text celebrating the animal world, in a compilation that includes works by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012

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