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Stella Diaz volume 1
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Great Reads: 2nd thru 3rd grade
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
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Stella Diaz loves marine animals, especially her betta fish, Pancho. But Stella Diaz is not a betta fish. Betta fish like to be alone, while Stella loves spending time with her mom and brother and her best friend Jenny. Trouble is, Jenny is in another class this year, and Stella feels very lonely.When a new boy arrives in Stella's class, she really wants to be his friend, but sometimes Stella accidentally speaks Spanish instead of English and pronounces...
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A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
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Piper McCloud volume 1
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English
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You just can't keep a good girl down... unless you use the proper methods. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for...
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Joey Pigza books volume 1
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From the Publisher: "They say I'm wired bad, or wired sad, but there's no doubt about it-I'm wired." Joey Pigza's got heart, he's got a mom who loves him, and he's got "dud meds," which is what he calls the Ritalin pills that are supposed to even out his wild mood swings. Sometimes Joey makes bad choices. He learns the hard way that he shouldn't stick his finger in the pencil sharpener, or swallow his house key, or run with scissors. Joey ends up...
6) Mountain dog
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When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move--Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal.
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Cuando la fallida invasi̤n de Bah̕a de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce ąos, toma la dif̕cil decisi̤n de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro pa̕s por s̕ mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desaf̕os. Perdido en un mar de angloparlantes,...
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"Ahoy, mateys! It's the first day of first grade, and it's all hands on deck for a young pirate and his crew. How much trouble can they get into? What will they do at recess? and, most important, what treasure awaits them at school?"--Cover verso.
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Books about Nature (Youth)
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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Wrap Yourself in a Good Book
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
Wrap Yourself in a Good Book
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Thirteen-year-old Nicki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
14) My friend Rabbit
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OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.
15) Betty before X
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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
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Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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Best Books of 2021 - Teen
GPLD Best Sci-Fi for Teens
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Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Teens)
GPLD Best Sci-Fi for Teens
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Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Teens)
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In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
19) Elsewhere
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After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
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