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61) Girl at sea
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High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.
62) Oh, Olive!
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"Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she wants to, what she feels--until she reaches her parents'...
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Historical Fiction for Middle Grades (SCPL-YS)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Middle Grade Mysteries (SCPL-YS)
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Middle Grade Mysteries (SCPL-YS)
OBD Reading Colors Your World Chapter Books - YOUTH
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SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist -- and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving...
65) Verify
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Verify volume 1
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"Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when Meri's mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother's state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn't know existed. Suddenly,...
69) Dating down
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Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Samantha Henderson, eager to learn about life and to get away from her father's political campaigns and her stepmother, refuses to give up on her new boyfriend, "X, " even after he proves to be trouble, damaging her friendships and introducing her to drugs.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
K&T - AAPI Month
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
K&T - AAPI Month
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
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Imagines a day in the boyhood of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, while wandering through an outdoor market, through the forest, and then by the ocean, seeing things Isamu sees through the eyes of a young artist.
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GEPL YA Staff Picks
Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Native American Voices for Young Adults
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Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Native American Voices for Young Adults
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In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
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Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
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Ada Lace adventures volume 5
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Eight-year-old Ada and new friend Tycho help Nina by coding a website displaying her online portfolio, then work together again to document a case of fraud.
74) Mister Orange
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When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination.
76) Window fishing
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"Rudeday dreams of creating art that brings people joy but instead, he paints to pay the bills. His days and nights are long, until one day he hears a Tap! Tap! Tap! at his window. What could it be? Rudeday sees a piece of string with a paper clip tied to the end of it, coming from the apartment upstairs. Rudeday has a brilliant idea. Rudeday carefully paints a fish and attaches it to the paper clip, starting a window-fishing exchange with a little...
78) Challenger deep
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Disability Pride Month 2023 (WPL-ADULT)
K&T - Mental Health Awareness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month @DGPL
Ocean Reads
K&T - Mental Health Awareness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month @DGPL
Ocean Reads
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"A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist...
79) Bushman lives!
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Neddiad volume 4
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In the 1960s, Harold Knishke, a Chicago teenager with a special place in his heart for Bushman, the famed departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a hometown adventure, in a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.
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Charlotte, a young American girl, keeps a journal as her family leaves the artist colony of Giverny, France, in 1895 and travels to London, England, where they meet famous writers and artists and learn of the city's history. Includes biographical sketches of painters and reproductions of artworks.
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