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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Ruby's first "Star Day" is coming up, and she's missing her family. Then, Littlefoot's pal Ali returns to the Great Valley with her friend Rhett, but Rhett's bragging ways soon put everyone in a tricky situation. Next, Cera gets swept away during a log-balancing competition, and it's up to all the kids to work together to save their friend. Last, Cera thinks it's silly how excited Petrie is for the Bright Circle Celebration, but when fire threatens...
18463) The pride of the Yankees
Description
Traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball Hall of Fame player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his athletic childhood in New York to his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
18464) The iris effect
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A woman's gifted and troubled son disappears from their home in Los Angeles. Many years pass, a new clue turns up and she is convinced her son is living in Russia. The closer she comes to the truth, the harder it is to believe ...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Sun Yi was a Shanghai journalist caught in the political crosshairs of the 1949 Communist victory. After eight years of government harassment, she fled to Hong Kong with her daughter. Upon arrival, Sun Yi wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival,...
18466) Harry and the Hendersons
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
18468) Welcome home Roscoe Jenkins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
R.J. Stevens is a successful television talk show host who sets aside his perfect life with his sweet son and celebrity girlfriend to attend his parents' golden wedding anniversary back home in Georgia. From the moment he arrives, all the reasons R.J. left to reinvent himself on the West Coast become clear. His siblings and cousins quickly put him in his place, reminding him that his name is actually Roscoe Jenkins. His sweet mother watches impassively...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's...
18471) Life's what you make it
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Miley is going through a major identity crisis. Not only is she starting high school, but she's also has to make some tough decisions about taking back Jake and traveling to a concert without her super-cool dad there for support. Adding to the drama, Hannah totally croaks in concert and has to deal with possibly losing her stellar singing voice, not to mention her superstar identity.
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Alice in wonderland : Lewis Carroll's famous story about a girl who falls asleep in a meadow and dreams of entering a magical world, filled with strange adventures and magical creatures
Pinocchio : The beloved fairy tale of a young wooden boy brought into the world by love and magic comes to life in the timeless classic Pinocchio. Pinocchio's misadventures find him hunted by assassins, whisked away to the temptations of the Land of Toys, transformed...
18475) The life before her eyes
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Diana is a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life, and perhaps her sanity, on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that killed her bestfriend. Diana was a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, cut class, fantasized about boys and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. Now, however, Diana is haunted by the increasingly strained relationships she had with...
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. As these two people try to overcome their different backgrounds, they find love. Monty struggles to protect his children from abuse and...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"In Say Cheese and Die": Greg's new camera is taking some awfully weird pictures, pictures that predict a horrifying future. When Greg tries to return it, he meets its mad creator. "In Say cheese and die again": Bad things happen when Greg determines to convince his English teacher of the powers of the evil camera.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal -- to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated to discover her culinary gift has simply . . . vanished....
18479) Berry bunny adventures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Max & Ruby celebrates the warm and humorous relationship between Max, an enthusiastic and determined bunny, and his big sister Ruby.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...