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Asian Americans History Asians History National parks and reserves United States Juvenile literature Presidents United States Biography Juvenile films Presidents United States History Juvenile films United States United States Ethnic relations History United States History Juvenile films United States History Juvenile literature United States Race relations HistoryContents: Crazy hair day -- and more funny school adventures. Crazy hair day / written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg -- Petunia / written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- How do dinosaurs go to school? / written by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague -- Monty / written and illustrated by James Stevenson -- Will I have a friend? / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CRASummary: Collection of all 46 Schoolhouse rock! songs on the topics of science, multiplication, money, American history and English grammar. Plus, the new song "I'm gonna send your vote to college" about the American electoral college.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCHSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: From the voyage of the Mayflower to the bold exploration of outer space, join the Peanuts gang as they take a timeless journey through American history! Groove along with Charlie Brown and Snoopy as they discover the beginnings of jazz and ragtime music, cleverly accompanied by Lucy's speech about American heroes. Soar with the Wright brothers, blast into orbit on the NASA space station, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD ANASummary: Animated biography of George Washington focusing on his accomplishments as a military leader and his part in forming a new nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NEST Family Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANISummary: Introduces 6 main characters of the American Revolution. Promotes interest in reading of biography with comedy, tragedy, error, foolishness, courage and persistence that is relevant to life today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JEASummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STOBrown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROLari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Petersen, Christine.
Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial miller and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 664.72 PETMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOWhite, April
Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 WHIMartinez, Claudia Guadalupe
Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMattern, Joanne
Summary: This title examines Instagram, the photo and video sharing website.Readers will learn about company history and development, how Instagram operates, issues the company faces such as inappropriate content, and its impact on society.Key components such as filters, Instagram Direct, and Boomerang are also explored.Color photos accompany easy-to-read, compelling text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 775 MATSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIMarrin, Albert
Summary: "Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARWalker, Cameron
Summary: "Divided into eight chapters covering the breadth of the US, pictographic maps locate each of the monuments explored, while double-page, poster-worthy scenes convey the beauty of the areas featured. Monuments covered include Statue of Liberty, Stonewall, Katahdin, the National Mall, Forts of the East, Jewel Cave, Pipestone, Pullman, Grand-Staircase Escalante, Chiricahua National Monument,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of the Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 WALRockwell, Anne F.
Summary: The true story of James Lafayette, a spy in the American Revolution. After America won its freedom, James returned to slavery. But James's fight for freedom wasn't over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPYLee, Erika
Summary: "This book is a stirring account of the ordinary people and extraordinary acts that made Asian America and the young people who are remaking America today"--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0495 LEEDennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022