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Moriarty, Jaclyn

Summary: Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

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Nathan, Sarah.

Summary: Jasmine is determined to find a rare coin to complete Aladdin's collection for his birthday, but her search leaves her stranded in the desert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2013

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Nathan 2013

Wilson, Kimberly

Summary: "Pennies, worthless? Non-cents! Hot off the minting press, Penny feels like a million bucks. But as other coins and bills are spent while she sits forgotten, she begins to doubt her value. She is too small to slot-surf with Quarter. Even penny candy sells for a dime! Refusing to be short-changed, she sets out to find her purpose at any cost. Readers will laugh at a wealth of money puns, learn a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2022

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Lubar, David.

Summary: When ordinary third-grader Ed finds a coin with the words "strange" and "stranger" on both sides, weird things start happening around him--but when his friends start blaming him for all the weirdness Ed wonders if this coin is not too strange for comfort.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LUB

Sutton, Laurie

Summary: Two-Face is on the loose and his crimes have Batman and Robin working double time to the flip of his lucky coin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUP

Smith, Steven K.

Summary: "When ten-year-old Derek and eight-year-old Sam move with their family to Virginia, they have no idea what adventures the summer will bring. As the brothers explore their creaky old house and the deep surrounding woods, they uncover a sixty-year-old mystery of a valuable coin collection stolen from the local museum. Join the boys as they spend their summer running from danger and searching the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MyBoys3 Press 2013

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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series Smith

Evanovich, Janet

Summary: "Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M EVA

Battershill, Andrew

Summary: Pillow loves animals. Especially the exotic ones. Which is why he chooses the zoo for the drug runs he does as a low-level enforcer for a crime syndicate run by André Breton. He doesn't love his life of crime, but he isn't cut out for much else, what with all the punches to the head he took as a professional boxer. And now that he's accidentally but sort of happily knocked up his neighbor, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coach House Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAT

Evanovich, Janet

Summary: Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVA

Evanovich, Janet

Summary: Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that long-time office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVA

Preller, James.

Summary: As the class prepares for the holidays, Jigsaw takes the case of Lucy, who has lost her father's rare coin, and the mystery means having to interview a big, tough second grader named Bigs Malone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1998

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PRE

Sanders, Lawrence

Summary: When a priceless ancient Greek coin is lost while being transported to the auction house, Mary Lou Dunk, the supervisor of the transfer comes under suspicion. An insurance sleuth and a cop, both rivals for her heart, aid in clearing her name.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Collins, Ailynn

Summary: "After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Summary: Harry the dirty dog: Harry runs away before bath time. When he returns home covered in mud, his family doesn't recognize him. Officer Buckle and Gloria: When Officer Buckle tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens - until he's partnered with a police dog named Gloria. Angus and the ducks: A curious Scotch terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hed

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HAR

Clanton, Ben

Summary: "Rot is ready for another adventure, and this time he's going spud-lunking! But while Rot is excited to dig through the muck for treasure, all his friends seem to be more interested in their own plans. When Rot uncovers a shiny old crown, he's sure it'll change their minds. And it does in a most unexpected way. When Rot wears the crown, he feels powerful.... He feels invincible.... He feels...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 CLA

Viva, Frank

Summary: During the course of a day spent with Grampa, Owen learns silly dances to fight the urge to pee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIV

Chung, Eve J.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHU

Yanagihara, Hanya

5 holds on 6 copies

Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YAN

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Yoon, Helen

Summary: "Daddy is a bit distracted on their autumn walk, while his curious child only has eyes for one of nature's small wonders: a pinecone! And look, another pinecone! And another! In fact, she could gather an entire collection--an entire extended family--of pinecones if she wanted to (and she wants to!). But what then?"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

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Whitehill, Simcha

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Summary: In "An Ultra-Urgent Rescue," Ash helps his friend Lillie rescue her mother from a mysterious Ultra Beast; and in "Buzzwole Battle," Ash takes on his first assignment as an Ultra Guardian

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019

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Lescure, Aube Rey

Summary: Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

Ho, Joanna

Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...

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

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

Gibbs, Stuart

Summary: Bruce Wayne, the only kid in school without super powers, gets called to the principal because his career choice of vigilantism is deemed too ambitious, and he becomes even more determined to prove he belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GIB

Chen, Wendy

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

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