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Clements, Andrew

Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CLE

Clements, Andrew

Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CLE

Koenig, John

Summary: Poetically defining emotions we all feel but don't have the words to express, the creator of the popular online project of the same name invites readers on his epic quest to fill the gaps in the language of emotion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.403 KOE

Clements, Andrew

Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1996

Copies Available at Peninsula

2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CLE
Call number: JFIC CLE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Cle

Contents: Disc 1. Five principles for learning vocabulary -- The spelling-meaning connection -- Words for lying, swindling, and conniving -- Words that express annoyance and disgust -- Fighting words and peaceful words -- Going beyond dictionary meanings. Disc 2. Wicked words -- Words for beginnings and endings -- Words expressing fear, love, and hatred -- Words for the everyday and the elite -- Words...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 420 BUI

Malless, Stan

Summary: Lists 150 English words and phrases that originated in the Bible, including "blood money" and "salt of the Earth," in a volume complemented by meanings and sources as well as chapter and verse identifications.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.1 MAL

Miller, Derek L.

Summary: "A book for young readers about pencils and how they are made"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 681 MIL

Beech, Linda Ward.

Summary: Focus words: want, new.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE BEE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE BEE

Whitley, Trixie

Contents: Faint mystery -- Salt -- Closer -- Hourglass -- Eliza's smile -- Soft spoken words -- New frontiers -- Witness -- The visitor.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHI

Contents: Leonore overture : no. 3 / Beethoven (14:35) -- Trio for piano, violin & cello in A minor, op. 50. I., Pezzo elegiaco / Tchaikovsky (18:20) -- Sonata for cello & piano in G minor, op. 19. III., Andante / Rachmaninoff (6:46) -- Dichterliebe : op. 48 / Schumann (30:00) -- Concerto for 2 violins & [string] orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043 / J.S. Sebastian Bach (16:00) -- Pater noster / Tchaikovsky...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CON

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Contents: Concerto in a minor for recorder, viola da gamba and strings (15:24) -- Suite (Overture) in D major for viola da gamba and strings, TWV 55:D6 (21:14) -- Suite (Overture) in a minor for recorder and strings, TWV 55a:2 (29:17) -- Sinfonia in F major for alto recorder, viola da gamba and strings, TWV 50:3 (7:41).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TEL

Zombie, Zack

Summary: Have you ever wondered what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? After Steve and Zombie accidentally launch a prototype display rocket and get sucked through a wormhole (it's a long story), they are relieved to land safely back in the Overworld. However, nothing is as it seems. Zombie's dad is organised, his mum is scatty, he is allowed to stay up all day and the Humans are scaring the mobs!...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Koala Books 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ZOM

Brooks, Felicity

Summary: "This delightful book is the perfect way for little ones to learn lots of new words so they are ready for the big day." --Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019

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Fox, Margalit

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum emigrated to New York from Germany and worked as a rag peddler on the streets of the Lower East Side. By the 1870s she was a widow with four children, a popular society hostess, and a philanthropist. What enabled a woman on the margins of nineteenth-century American life to ascend from tenement poverty to immense wealth? In the intervening years, Mrs. Mandelbaum...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LAS

Castellanos, Alexis

Summary: "A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CAS

Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

6 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 AME 1
Call number: 917.3 AME 2
Call number: 917.3 AME 3
Call number: 917.3 AME 4
Call number: 917.3 AME 5
Call number: 917.3 AME 6

Raab, Scott

Summary: "The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 RAA

Elliot, David

Summary: In this board book built on word play, each scene twists the animals' names into funny new words to share and delight in how they feel and sound. Bumblebee Grumblebee is for toddlers and adults to have fun experimenting with the way words are put together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ELL (BOARD)

Summary: A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TAK

Romberg, Sigmund

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Music Inc. 1944

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Keene, Carolyn

Summary: The Clue Crew investigates who sabotaged the River Heights Nature Park's fundraiser.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEE

Himekawa, Akira.

Summary: "A terrible tragedy befalls Link's family and friends when the traitorous Agahnim launches a plot to seize the Triforce and unleash a terrible evil on the world. To bring justice to Agahnim, Link needs the Master Sword and sets off on a quest to find it. Link's journey may also help him discover what happened to his parents, and while Agahnim's minions and traps are dangerous, this link to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Manga, Call number: YA FIC HIM

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Summary: Duck, Monkey, Sheep, Pig, and Ant help young viewers recognize letters and sound out and spell new words.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2011

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

2 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD WOR

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