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Janie Johnson volume 1
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English
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
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English
Description
When mommy octopus tells little Floyd that it is time for bed, he decides that his parents want help getting their baths and putting on their pajamas (not what Mommy-O meant)--soon all three are covered with water and bubbles, and his parents are so exhausted that they fall asleep before Floyd is in bed.
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"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents...instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it...and she'll have to face...angry locals and an unexpected friendship...while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"--
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English
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Black Voices | Kids PEQ
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
12) Love from Bluey
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mum and Bingo read a bedtime story about all the ways you can love while Dad tries to get Bluey ready for bed"--
13) Wonder
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Language
English
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HAR--Kids Summer Reading 2023 All Together Now
NPM - JUV GRL V
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
NPM - JUV GRL V
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
14) Matilda
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English
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Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding. But they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers. She applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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English
Description
"From the first moment Morgan can remember, Claire has always been there. Big sister and little brother. Cat and Mouse. They’ve always understood each other, saved each other, seen each other. And they stuck to their own personal code, unwritten but understood, that siblings were inseparable, that they had each other’s backs, no matter what. At least, they used to. Somewhere along the line, things between them shifted. Claire started fighting...
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