Rodari, Gianni
Summary: A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RODSeltzer, Eric
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal the day-to-day lives of cow space explorers, from what they look like, to how they keep busy, to how they deal with a noisy baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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Summary: Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and takes their mother's boyfriend's expensive, rare automobile, than manages to get it towed; Charley and her friends hatch a plan to get the car back--but things go seriously wrong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: When a pest eats all the vegetables in the garden, Duck comes up with a plan to stop whatever is feasting on his crops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Pop quiz! You are on the roof of a skyscraper. Every floor of that building has nasty things that just don't like you. And you really need to get to the basement. Whaddaya do?! (And no, you can't just join the B-Team and fly away in their glamorous new spaceship.) Think quick, chico, because the multiverse is getting worse!"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAGeorge, Jennifer
Summary: The young inventor, Rube Goldberg, enlivens his day off by building incredibly complex chain-reaction machines to solve simple, everyday problems--like playing fetch with your dog in the yard without ever actually leaving your room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOShea, Bob
Summary: Dinosaur spends a day "helping" his mother, from the time he roars to awaken her until their final contest at bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2017
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Summary: Ember the Chihuahua, his humans and his friends are spending a few days on Acorn Island--which is rumored to be ruled by a giant, evil chipmunk, determined to drive away all humans and pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic
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Summary: Rory enters the Dragon Academy, School for Gifted Dragons, and quickly becomes the most popular dragon there, but she seems very different from the other dragons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
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Summary: When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011
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Summary: "When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLLowery, Mike
Summary: Edgar the shark is getting the house ready for a visit from Santa Shark, and although he is skeptical, his friend Lotta the crab pitches in to help--but Edgar is worried about the lack of snow under the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Christmas, Call number: JE LOWRex, Adam
Summary: Gumluck, a young, naíve wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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Summary: Big Volcano and Little Volcano live side by side in paradise, but when a silly bird drops a coconut (or two) on Little Volcano's crater he blows his top.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Pig the Pug often lies to get what he wants, and blames Trevor the sausage dog for his own misdeeds--but when his latest lie results in an accident and the loss of a tooth he finally learns his lesson (maybe).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: An exuberant eight-year-old details for his teacher and classmates the astonishing variety of inventive careers he is thinking of pursuing when he grows up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: In this interactive book Lady Rabbit the Magician offers to read your mind, if you pick a member from the magician's audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COPFahmy, Huda
Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Chestbeard's pirate ship is overrun with imps! Patrice, Nate, and the gang need to act fast and clean up this impfestation!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2023
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Summary: A boy, worried about his first day at a new school, finds himself on the wrong bus, a bus full of puppies bound for Puppy School--and discovers that despite the strange food and even weirder bathroom Puppy School is a lot of fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROHiggins, Ryan T.
Summary: Penelope Rex gets a saber-toothed tiger for her first pet, but find 'Mittens' a lot to handle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGLi, Brenda
Summary: Brian the pig wears jeans everywhere (even in the bath sometimes) and none of his friends or neighbors understand why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "A sleeping baby rolls out of the house and across the nation on a series of larger-than-life adventures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REXStutzman, Jonathan
Summary: Greedy Llama travels back in time to eat his marvelous birthday donut a second time, but a Baby Llama follows him to the present, and soon his house is a chaos of cave llamas, barbarian bunnies, and Viking pigs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022