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Author
Series
Dork diaries) volume 9
Description
Nikki's diary is up to the month of April, and springtime is sure to bring more wacky adventures with Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon.
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
64 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the child of peasants, Karen grew up with a pair of simple red shoes. Then, when her parents died, Karen was adopted by a rich old woman who gave Karen a new pair of red shoes that would make princesses green with envy. This newfound wealth causes Karen to forget her humble origins and grow up to become a cruel and vain adult. Then, one day, the red shoes that sparked her greed come to life and steer Karen down a path she never would have imagined...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers...When you're a girl of color, figuring out how to find your voice-- and make sure everyone around you can hear it-- is essential. Harts walks you through her own successes, and the missteps that helped her grow. She offers practical advice on choosing friends, finding mentors, and setting boundaries for healthy relationships,...
4244) Edith's story
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
410 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
4245) Dress like a girl
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
[VOX edition], First edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book : digital ; 27 cm + 1 book (1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Explores the concept of dressing "like a girl," in which girls dress in space suits, police officer uniforms, and laboratory coats to prove that girls can be anything they want to be.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
8 books, 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm).
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
4247) The winner's game
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
491 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast near Haystack Rock. But rather than...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
10 books (372 pages) in a bag, 1 large print book (553 pages), 1 book on CD (9 CDs) ; 36 x 45 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm)
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing 10 paperback copies of the title, 1 large print edition, 1 audio book, that may also include a folder with sign out sheets.
When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and...
4250) Rediscovering Nancy Drew
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 paperback ([32] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Doc always takes care of the toys in her backyard clinic, but one day, when she shows up to work sneezing and sniffling, it's the toys' turn to take care of her..."--P. [4] of cover.
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (96 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm).
Language
English
Description
"3 stories in 1! Relive the excitement of fan-favorite films Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, and Moana in this Read-Along collection."--
4253) La tierra de las grullas
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Betita, de nueve ąos, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le con̤t la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los ℓngeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en M̌xico. Los aztecas proce̕dan de un lugar llamado Azt̀ln, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtit̀ln, la actual Ciudad de M̌xico. Cuenta una profe̕sa que...
4255) Unstoppable Octobia May
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (approximately 6 hr., 21 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Octobia May is girl filled with questions. Her heart condition makes her special and, some folks would argue, gives this ten-year-old powers that make her a "wise soul." Thank goodness for Auntie, who convinces Octobia's parents to let her live in her boarding house that is filled with old folks. That's when trouble, excitement, and wonder begin.
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag.
Language
English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Versión expandida.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la brava madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres.
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four under tragic circumstances...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.