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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Summer Reads for Kids
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Summer Reads for Kids
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
2) Calypso
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When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. Sedaris sets his powers of observation toward middle age and mortality, that vertiginous...
3) This old dog
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A baby comes into the house and leaves the old dog feeling kind of lonely and left out, but when the girl starts learning to walk, he has a companion who likes to explore the world at his pace.
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Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 2
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When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.--
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Declaration trilogy volume 1
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In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
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Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
9) The legacy
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Declaration trilogy volume 3
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When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.
10) King Lear
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Featuring the images of some of the world's most famous stage and film actors, these additions to the all-new Oxford School Shakespeare introduce--and enthrall--young people to one of the greatest writers of all time. This season brings revised editions of five of the Bard's most famous plays--As You Like It, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour Lost and The Taming of the Shrew. Designed specifically for students unfamiliar with Shakespeare's rich literary...
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THE OLD CAT BIBLE!
Filled with comprehensive cat reference material from interviews with over 100 veterinary experts, this award-winning book answers all your must-know questions. You'll find heartwarming chicken soup –like stories, and the latest developments in veterinary care advice for cats health care for old cats, this is the definitive guide for keeping senior cats vital, happy, and active throughout their golden years.
15) Old and young
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Through accessible text and full-color photos, the concepts of old and young are easily illustrated for readers using such topics as animals, trees, and clothes. A Words to Know section at the beginning of the book helps students learn new vocabulary they will encounter in the text, while suggestions for other titles and websites encourage students to learn more. Detailed Table of Contents, Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary,...
16) Turnabout
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After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they return to infancy.
17) Air miles
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Miles the dog is growing older, but adventure still awaits when he takes to the skies.
19) King Lear
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Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format.
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A look at the lives and stories of 30 dogs. By presenting portraits of each dog as a puppy and again as an older dog, photographer Amanda Jones reveals the unique spark of personality that lasts a lifetime. These beautiful images of breeds ranging from golden retrievers and Great Danes to pugs and French bulldogs are accompanied by reflections from loved ones on the lives they share with their furry companions. The result is a celebration of each...
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