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Frank and the Puppy 1 Frank and the puppy 1 Song below water 2 Wolves of no world 2Marr, Shirley
Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC MARGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: Frank the cat is happy at home with his two humans until they bring home a puppy who disturbs his entire way of life, so after running away and finding out how unwelcoming the world outside is he makes his way back to where he belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BROGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2022
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Summary: "Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he starts going to daycare, he doesn't feel like he belongs. Nikosis cries every time his mother leaves him in the unfamiliar environment until, one day, she and the teachers use drums to help Nikosis find connection and comfort. Inspired by her son's experience--and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMDesierto, Derek
Summary: Wishing for a family, Oddbird, who has always been on his own, discovers that all families don't look the same, and sometimes the families we choose are where we belong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DESCrow, Katrine
Summary: "What do you do when you feel like you don't fit in? Find something that makes you stand out"--Page 4 cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flowerpot Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CROAnyakwo, Diana
Summary: It's 1990, and Lily is a sixteen-year-old girl living in Manchester, England. It has been five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with her mother and siblings for the anniversary. As cold rain thunders on the British streets, Lily flashes back to her childhood in Lagos. The biracial daughter of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IgKids 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANYArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ARAYamasaki, Katie
Summary: A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different for each of them: Ms. Iris tells him it is a link to her home country; for Devin, it connects him to his older sister, who just left for college; for Savannah, it reminds her of her grandmother who passed away. The boy thinks of those who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YAMSmith, Briony May
Summary: A mischievous fairy born to a family of wrens sets out to find her "real" family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2024
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Summary: After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GARLai, Remy
Summary: "Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LAIFox, Kate Allen
Summary: On the shortest day of the year, communities come together to celebrate and savor every ray of light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FOXMorrow, Bethany C.
Summary: "Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she's famous, stylish, gorgeous--and she's an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her--until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media, and canceled by her fans, she feels that no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC MORJean, Emiko
Summary: After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAAnderson, Sophie
Summary: Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: "A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAYKim, Dan-ah
Summary: Nari's home feels a bit too full and a little too loud for Nari. Sometimes she wishes she lived somewhere else. Maybe a garden, or on a boat, or under the sea, or back in time, or even up in the sky with the stars. When the train rumbles by her window, she wants to jump on board. Where could it take her? The possibilities stretch far and wide as Nari's dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIMSummary: "In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOUVitalis, Jessica
Summary: "When her unconventional parents finally agree to settle down in one place, twelve-year-old Cayenne's dreams come true, but the reality of fitting in is much harder than she imagined"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: Frank the cat has it good. Then his people bring home a box with a puppy inside. A puppy who doesn't know the rules of naps, and slobbers and tackles and barks. This won't do. Frank will just have to find a better home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC BROLong, Loren
Summary: A forgotten school bus finds joy and purpose in the most unexpected places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024