Coy, John
Summary: Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COYBunting, Eve
Summary: A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Christmas, Call number: JE BUNBunting, Eve
Summary: A little boy is certain that his expectant mother will give birth to a baby brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Young BuntingHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny follows Olivia for a school project and learns about her life with her stepfamily.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARMills, Claudia
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sonnet grapples with the loss of her grandfather's apple orchard, disrupted by a housing development, and forms an uneasy relationship with her neighbor Zeke after they discover a family secret that has the potential to disrupt Sonnet's family or bring about healing and growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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Summary: The four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2008Callen, Rocky
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she is falling for"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CALPatterson, James
Summary: Comedian Jamie Grimm, accompanied by Uncle Frank, New Aunt Flora, and friends, circles the globe as host of regional competitions, then competes, himself, in the Planet's Funniest Kid Worldwide contest.--Provided by Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Ellie pet-sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, about whom she is writing a report, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's ever-present sketchbook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARKinney, Jeff.
Summary: "Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINFirestone, Carrie
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine and her zany family accompany their terminally ill matriarch on her 'death with dignity' cruise, where Maddie falls in love, makes new friends, and struggles to find the strength to let go of her beloved Gram"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FIRLai, Thanhha
Summary: When her grandmother gets trapped in her cloudy memories, An and her grandfather AOng come up with a plan to bring her back to a happy moment so she can remember her wedding wish with AOng: hundred years of happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAIBlume, Judy.
Summary: More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD J BluAnand, Shelly
Summary: A young girl learns about her diverse heritage and discovers the strength and love it brings to her multicultural family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANAGreanias, Margaret Chiu
Summary: Max lacks the lack to be a villain like the rest of his family, but when he brings home a bunny, his mother challenges them to become a devious duo or Max will lose his new sidekick forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREWells, Rosemary.
Summary: On her second birthday, Sophie gets up on the wrong side of the crib and behaves terribly until her grandmother has an inspiration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2014Wyss, Johann David
Summary: Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYSHannigan, Katherine.
Summary: For most of her eleven years, Delly has been in trouble without knowing why, until her little brother, R.B., and a strange, silent new friend, Ferris, help her find a way to be good--and happy--again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HANMcKissack, Pat
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1900
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DA 18Sharpe, Tess
Summary: Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHAHarper, Charise Mericle.
Summary: As Grace and her classmates study foods from other cultures, she has the opportunity to ponder such mysteries as whether Owen 1 is really bad or not, why she feels jealous when her father helps her best friend with her hot dog report, and how Augustine Dupre, her family's French boarder, can be so wise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2009
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Summary: Ethan looks forward to the Thanksgiving Day when he and his friends are finally old enough to play in the annual family football game, but that day arrives full of snow and icy roads.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Thanksgiving, Call number: JE BILCordell, Matthew
Summary: Davy the sheep wishes he had time alone with his parents, as he did before his twelve brothers came along and started imitating his every move, but when his wish comes true Davy misses playing with the youngsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CORPearce, Emily Smith
Summary: After pokey Fiona attends Speed School, where she learns to wash dishes, brush her teeth, and clean her room at the same time, she decides to demonstrate to her family the value of sometimes doing things more slowly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2010