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Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
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2024 Summer Reading Ranger and Rogue Weekly Challenge: Survival
APL Kids: Read and Read S'more
Camping for Kids
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APL Kids: Read and Read S'more
Camping for Kids
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Ernestine is beyond excited to go camping. She follows the packing list carefully (new sleeping bag! new flashlight! special trail mix made with Dad!) so she knows she is ready when the weekend arrives. But she quickly realizes that nothing could have prepared her for how hard it is to set up a tent, never mind fall asleep in it, or that swimming in a lake means that there will be fish -- eep! Will Ernestine be able to enjoy the wilderness, or will...
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Baby-sitters Club volume 1
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English
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"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
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Series
Baby-sitters little sister volume 2
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Karen has new roller skates. She is a very good skater. She can even do tricks. But oh, no! Karen falls down and breaks her wrist! She has to go to the hospital and get a cast. Karen wants somebody famous to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy--but Karen won't give up till she gets the job done!"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publication Date
[2023]
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English
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Children's Staff Picks 11/2024
February 2026 | Black History Month (Kids)
J Kpop Demon Hunters
Reading is Magic (WPL-Youth)
February 2026 | Black History Month (Kids)
J Kpop Demon Hunters
Reading is Magic (WPL-Youth)
Description
Life is tough for twelve-year-old orphan Adia. Her aunt and uncle believe she's an ogbanje, a demon-possessed child that brings misfortune wherever they go, and Adia can't disagree, especially when she suddenly manifests mysterious powers that she can't control, causing an earthquake in her village. So when Adia is offered a kitchen apprenticeship at the faraway Academy of Shamans, she flees with nothing but a pouch of change, her cat Bubbles, and...
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Kids Can Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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Feb24 1st/2nd grade
K&T - Pets
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
K&T - Pets
National Picture Book Month - November 2022
OBD Read, Renew, Repeat - Summer 2024 YOUTH
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
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Publication Date
[2021]
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English
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
9) I am enough
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English
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Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
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Baby-sitters Club volume 32
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English
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America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix TV show. Kristy's newest baby-sitting charge is Susan Felder, who goes away to a special school. Susan isn't like most kids. While she can play the piano and sing beautifully . . . she can't talk to anyone. Susan is autistic. She lives locked inside her own secret world. Kristy thinks it's unfair that Susan has to be sent off to school and is treated differently from everyone else. But...
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English
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All Staff Favorites GHPLD
Early Chapter Books
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
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Early Chapter Books
OBD Newbery Medal Winners (1922-2022) - YOUTH
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
12) Willodeen
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English
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When the annual migration of hummingbears, a source of local pride and income, dwindles and no one knows why, Willodeen, armed with a magical birthday gift, speaks up for the animals she loves and vows to uncover this mystery.
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English
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Black Lives (kids)
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
14) The unfinished
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Series
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten. The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive. Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery--taking a new form each time--people in town begin to go missing....
15) The last resort
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English
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2026 Mock Newbery - Anderson's
GPLD 2025 Fall Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
GPLD 2025 Fall Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
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Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer: 1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being "too dramatic" 2. Stop being so dramatic. But then Lila's estranged Grandpa Clem dies, throwing a wrench in her plans. Now she'll have to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clem's creepy Victorian Inn. It's supremely unfair. How can she show off the "new and improved" Lila from so far away? Even worse, strange...
16) Partly cloudy
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Publication Date
[2021]
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English
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In desperate need of clear skies as she starts a new school, Madalyn has days filled with clouds that lead to serious storms until she learns the power of community and family after disaster strikes.
17) Something to say
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Eleven-year-old Jenae doesn't have any friends--and she's just fine with that. She's so good at being invisible in school, it's almost like she has a superpower, like her idol, Astrid Dane. At home, Jenae has plenty of company, like her no-nonsense mama; her older brother, Malcolm, who is home from college after a basketball injury; and her beloved grandpa, Gee.
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Series
Dragon girls volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The evil Shadow Sprites have stolen the Magic Mirror and are determined to cause chaos among the forest's animals. Aisha must harness the power of sapphires to rescue the mirror and return it to its rightful home in the Magic Forest's secret vault."-- Provided by publisher.
19) Bump
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"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts, like her dad not being around anymore, don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
20) Cress
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Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.




