Summary: Being responsible is very important! Doing chores, saying please, and being honest are all parts of being responsible. Taking on responsibility is fun and helpful!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HIGJules, Jacqueline
Summary: Instead of the usual dusting Sofia volunteers to wash the car--but when she leaves the hose on her mother's marigolds get flooded and she calls on her sisters to save the situation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE JULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JULLounsbury, Rose
Summary: In Less, Rose Lounsbury, a minimalism coach and still-sane mother of triplets, takes a practical, hands-on approach to decluttering your home and simplifying your life. Based on her own life-changing experiment of "going minimalist," Rose provides a realistic guide to reducing your excess stuff and reclaiming your hard-earned free time. Less offers attainable steps that you can take to achieve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Niche Pressworks 2017
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Summary: "Today, little Jesús has a big job to do. He's helping Papá at work, and he's in charge of the water jug -- which is also a magical clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday is done. But what about all these thirsty animals? Soon, the water is gone, but the day is not over yet. Will Jesús be fired?! Or is the jug not really magical after all." -- page [2] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TREGwynne, Carrie
Summary: In Doing household chores, learn more about how cleaning smart can lead to a healthier life. In Keep it clean, Jake finds out what happens when a person does not keep up with chores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648 GWYMepani, Kusum
Summary: "Saturday mornings start early for Meena. She and her sisters watch the sun rise while drinking chai before they clean the house and then head to the grocery store . . . while their brother gets to stay in bed. As the guests arrive, including Meena's favorite cousins, the women crowd into the kitchen to cook. The doorbell rings nonstop as family, neighbors, and friends fill the bustling house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN JEACall number: DVD FOREIGN JEA
Allwaine, Wayne.
Summary: Minnie falls asleep after doing a lot of chores and dreams that she becomes Minnie-rella and tries to make it to Prince Mickey's Grand Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment. 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIC RATED GSchulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe)
Summary: "Snoopy sees something he wants to buy at Lucy's yard sale. There's just one problem: he has no money, and Lucy won't take dog bones. But Lucy says if Snoopy does some chores for her, he can have whatever he wants. Snoopy is all set and ready to work--or is he?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHBond, Michael
Summary: Trouble comes naturally to Paddington who's head is so full of ideas that some things are destined to go wrong!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BONHatke, Ben
Summary: Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2014
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Summary: Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGPilkey, Dav
Summary: Whenever Dragon wakes up groggy, he always does everything wrong, like sweeping a hole in his dirt floor, or reading an egg and frying his newspaper.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PILDotlich, Rebecca Kai
Summary: "Digger wants to play baseball with his friends. But he isn't allowed to go out until he's cleaned his room. Digger starts cleaning at top speed, but the faster he moves the messier his room gets. His big tail and big feet aren't helping! Will Digger win the race to tidy his room and get to the game on time?"--Publisher's statement on Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DOTKlungel, Johan
Summary: "Tom and Daddy are home today. Daddy wants to clean the house and do the dishes, but Tom wants to play. Quickly they come up with a solution: together they'll try to conquer the dish monster and go on a quest in the jungle of socks. A funny and recognizable story about doing chores with Dad, which doesn't have to be boring at all."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLULiwska, Renata.
Summary: When Lucy gets a new red wagon she wants to play with it immediately, but first she must use it to bring vegetables home from the market for her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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Summary: "Sweeping, scrubbing, dusting, and picking up are perfect hands-on activities for teaching toddlers to care for their environment, while also fostering independence and developing strong motor skills. Inspired by the Montessori curriculum, this colorful guide specially created for 2- to 5-year-olds, teaches practical life skills with step-by-step photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2022
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Summary: Now that budding scientist Curious McCarthy's dad is going back to work, the five oldest McCarthy kids will be helping more with chores and taking turns cooking dinner. When her parents present the daily chore chart, Curious is delighted that they forgot to assign her a task. She spends the next week trying to go unnoticed and chore-less as she learns about chemistry and observes it at work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHRPozniak, Zach
Summary: "Do laundry right the first time with The Laundry Book, the ultimate reference guide for all things laundry. If you're like most people, laundry is a never-ending chore that you want to spend as little time, effort, and money on as possible, and no one has ever properly taught you how to tackle this chore. Laundry influencer Zach Pozniak and his father, Jerry Pozniak, owners of the luxury...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rock Point, an imprint of the Quarto Group
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Summary: In this story in the Owl & Bird of full-colour board books Owl tidies up his toys. But tidying up doesn't have to be just a chore it can be fun, too! This amusing beginner book, with bold, bright illustrations and simple text, shows readers how to put the fun into necessary chores, while it introduces emerging readers to simple vocabulary and dialogue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Seed Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PURTrejo, Jesús.
Summary: When Jesús gets home after school, he has to fill the time until Mamá can take him outside to play. It's tough, until Mamá appoints him Chief Plant Officer—he'll be like a big brother to her precious houseplants! Jesús does an excellent job keeping them watered, entertained, and happy—until an unfortunate accident during a dance party throws Jesús’s entire job into crisis mode! Join Jesús and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva 2024
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Summary: Kitty has almost everything a cat could want, everything ... except for a phone! To get a device of such magic and beauty, Kitty must do extra chores around the house for three whole months without complaining. Desperate times call for desperate measures, after all! Is Kitty up for such a Herculean task? --Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Darcy just moved to a new country. She's feeling lost and misses her friends back home. That's when she stumbles upon a shop full of mysterious glowing jars labeled with things like "Picking up the last sweater on the rack and it's on sale" and "Having the perfect weather on your wedding day." Much to Darcy's surprise-this store sells happy feelings. After Darcy accidentally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 OLSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OLS (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Penderecki, Krzysztof
Contents: Orchestral Works Vol. 1. Symphony no. 3 (44:24) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments (8:56)/ National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- Fluorescences : for orchestra (14:52)/ National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra -- De natura sonoris II for orchestra (8:59) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos of America 2012