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Measuring up

Lamotte, Lily.


School Library Journal, October 2020. Library Media Connection starred, November 2020. Booklist, October 2020. Horn Book, March 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2020. Publishers Weekly Annex, November 2020. "Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food"--OCLC.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal, October 2020. Library Media Connection starred, November 2020. Booklist, October 2020. Horn Book, March 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2020. Publishers Weekly Annex, November 2020. "Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food"--OCLC.

Date Published:2020

Stand tall, Molly Lou Melon

Lovell, Patty, 1964-


School Library Journal, October 2001. Book Links (A.L.A.), February 2003. Publisher's Weekly, September 2001. New York Times, January 2002. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2001. Kirkus Review, June 2001. Even when the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her and she feels good about herself.
Date Published:2001

City of wishes

Soontornvat, Christina.


During the New Year break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon City. There they'll stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. At first, Plum is dazzled by how big and exciting Nakhon City is. She's never experienced anything like it! But under the glittering surface, secrets lurk. A storm is brewing, and Plum will have to harness all of her growing powers to survive it.
Date Published:2024

During the New Year break, Plum and her friends travel to fancy, fashionable Nakhon City. There they'll stay with Sam and his mother, the powerful Lady Ubon. At first, Plum is dazzled by how big and exciting Nakhon City is. She's never experienced anything like it! But under the glittering surface, secrets lurk. A storm is brewing, and Plum will have to harness all of her growing powers to survive it.

Date Published:2024

Monstrous mammals : Who Would Win? /

Pallotta, Jerry,


"4 books in 1!"--Cover. Includes index. "Which dangerous animals would win in a fight? Find out in this awesome bind-up of four books in the popular Who Would Win? series. The collection features a range of mammal battles to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, including Coyote vs. Dingo, Lion vs. Tiger, Rhino vs. Hipppo, and Walrus vs. Elephant Seal."--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2024

The people of Sparks

DuPrau, Jeanne


Wilson's Junior High School, August 2006. School Library Journal starred, May 2004. Publisher's Weekly, March 2004. Booklist, April 2004. New York Times, September 2004. Horn Book, July 2004. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2004. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2004. Teacher Librarian, June 2006. Kirkus Review, May 2004. Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in the vibrant village of Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the villagers and newcomers against each other.
Date Published:2004

Wilson's Junior High School, August 2006. School Library Journal starred, May 2004. Publisher's Weekly, March 2004. Booklist, April 2004. New York Times, September 2004. Horn Book, July 2004. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2004. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2004. Teacher Librarian, June 2006. Kirkus Review, May 2004. Lina and Doon are thrilled to see their people join them above ground in the vibrant village of Sparks, but suspicion and prejudice soon turn the villagers and newcomers against each other.

Date Published:2004

Growing up on a farm : responsibilities and issues /

Sieling, Peter.


Introduction -- Young farmer : how one teenager established his own farm -- Farm animals -- Wild and feral encounters-- -- Country life meets city life -- Farm machines -- Farm safety -- A career in agriculture. Library Media Connection, March 2008. Examines the lives of teens in rural North America, focusing on the pleasures and challenges of life on a farm, sharing the story of a teen who established his own farm, and discussing farm animals, encounters with wild or feral animals, the similarities between city and country life, farm machines and safety, and agriculture careers.
Date Published:2008

Introduction -- Young farmer : how one teenager established his own farm -- Farm animals -- Wild and feral encounters-- -- Country life meets city life -- Farm machines -- Farm safety -- A career in agriculture. Library Media Connection, March 2008. Examines the lives of teens in rural North America, focusing on the pleasures and challenges of life on a farm, sharing the story of a teen who established his own farm, and discussing farm animals, encounters with wild or feral animals, the similarities between city and country life, farm machines and safety, and agriculture careers.

Date Published:2008

People of Florida

Knotts, Bob.


Includes glossary. This book describes the people who have contributed to Florida's history, from the Paleo-Indians of 12,000 years ago to the diversified population that has been increasing in the 1990s.
Date Published:2008

Teens, technology, and literacy, or, Why bad grammar isn't always bad

Braun, Linda W.


School Library Journal, June 2007. Booklist, June 2007. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2007. Library Media Connection, August 2007. Reference and Research Book News, June 2007. Examines how the rise of bad grammar, emoticons, acronyms, and poor spelling that are used in cyberspace have influenced how teens communicate and argues that their use are helping teens explore and develop new literacies and new technologies.
Date Published:2007

School Library Journal, June 2007. Booklist, June 2007. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2007. Library Media Connection, August 2007. Reference and Research Book News, June 2007. Examines how the rise of bad grammar, emoticons, acronyms, and poor spelling that are used in cyberspace have influenced how teens communicate and argues that their use are helping teens explore and develop new literacies and new technologies.

Date Published:2007

Distress signal

Lambert, Mary E., 1984-


School Library Journal, November 2020. Kirkus Review, September 2020. Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive they need to put their differences aside and work as a team or all that will be left of them are their sun-bleached bones.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal, November 2020. Kirkus Review, September 2020. Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive they need to put their differences aside and work as a team or all that will be left of them are their sun-bleached bones.

Date Published:2020

Rise of the Green Flame : Kwame's Magic Quest /

Mensah, Bernard, (Children's author),


Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Nkonyaa School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his calabash--but when one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic his power is revealed.
Date Published:2024

Read about Amelia Earhart

Feinstein, Stephen


School Library Journal, April 2006. Catholic Library World, September 2006. A biography of Amelia Earhart, examining her pioneering achievements as a woman pilot, and discussing her mysterious disappearance in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
Date Published:2006

Cranky chicken

Battersby, Katherine.


Cranky Chicken is, well, cranky. With one cranky eyebrow, cranky eyes, and even cranky, scratchy feet. But then one day, Cranky meets a very friendly worm named Speedy who wants nothing more than to be friends. Young readers will love seeing the mismatched friendship grow over the course of three charming and laugh-out-loud short adventures as Chicken and Speedy become BFFs (Best Feathered Friends) and Speedy shows Chicken how to look on the bright side.
Date Published:2021

Cranky Chicken is, well, cranky. With one cranky eyebrow, cranky eyes, and even cranky, scratchy feet. But then one day, Cranky meets a very friendly worm named Speedy who wants nothing more than to be friends. Young readers will love seeing the mismatched friendship grow over the course of three charming and laugh-out-loud short adventures as Chicken and Speedy become BFFs (Best Feathered Friends) and Speedy shows Chicken how to look on the bright side.

Date Published:2021

The water wars

Stracher, Cameron.


In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.
Date Published:2011

Fun crafts with shapes

Ros, Jordina.


Translation of: Formas. Originally published: Barcelona, Spain : Parramón, c2004. What is a shape? -- looking at shapes -- Types of shapes -- Shapes all around us -- Geometric shapes -- Hands on! -- The ghost city -- Imitations -- What a sculpture! -- The super spot -- The architect -- Autumn shapes -- Building on shapes -- A symmetrical flower -- Shape patterns -- A magic shape -- "Woman and bird" by Joan Miró -- Patterns. Library Media Connection, August 2006. Catholic Library World, March 2007. Simple text and illustrated photographs describe different shapes by doing simple crafts.
Date Published:2006

Translation of: Formas. Originally published: Barcelona, Spain : Parramón, c2004. What is a shape? -- looking at shapes -- Types of shapes -- Shapes all around us -- Geometric shapes -- Hands on! -- The ghost city -- Imitations -- What a sculpture! -- The super spot -- The architect -- Autumn shapes -- Building on shapes -- A symmetrical flower -- Shape patterns -- A magic shape -- "Woman and bird" by Joan Miró -- Patterns. Library Media Connection, August 2006. Catholic Library World, March 2007. Simple text and illustrated photographs describe different shapes by doing simple crafts.

Date Published:2006

Darkstalker

Sutherland, Tui, 1978-


School Library Journal. Born into a divided heritage, Darkstalker is destined to become a powerful and dangerous dragon and it will take the combined efforts of Fatham and Clearsight to come up with a way to save all the kingdoms from his anger.
Date Published:2017

Froggy's first kiss

London, Jonathan.


Embedded sound file. Froggy thinks the new girl in class, Frogilina, is the cutest frog he?s ever seen. He can?t even concentrate when she?s around. When Frogilina smiles at him through the monkey bars, Froggy falls smack on his head â€” bonk! A mere glance from her makes his insides all soft and wiggly, like he?s had caterpillars for breakfast. With Valentine?s Day just a week away Froggy really wants to know?could this be love??A fun-for-all, tongue-tangling, giggle-getting,?flap,? ?bonk,? ?slam? of a rousing read-aloud.??School Library Journal for Let?s Go, Froggy!
Date Published:2014

Embedded sound file. Froggy thinks the new girl in class, Frogilina, is the cutest frog he?s ever seen. He can?t even concentrate when she?s around. When Frogilina smiles at him through the monkey bars, Froggy falls smack on his head â€” bonk! A mere glance from her makes his insides all soft and wiggly, like he?s had caterpillars for breakfast. With Valentine?s Day just a week away Froggy really wants to know?could this be love??A fun-for-all, tongue-tangling, giggle-getting,?flap,? ?bonk,? ?slam? of a rousing read-aloud.??School Library Journal for Let?s Go, Froggy!

Date Published:2014

Zora Neale Hurston


Salem Press. Volume of literary criticism concerning the life and works of African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Date Published:2013

Write me for you

Cole, Tillie.


Unabridged. Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamed of becoming a novelist and writing the greatest love story ever told. One that would fill hearts and souls with happiness and joy. However, June has never been in love, and when she receives some devastating news, it doesn't feel as if there's much time left for her own beautiful love story. That is, until she meets Jesse Taylor, the boy who treats every day as if it's his last. Which could be true ... for them both. But together, their shattered worlds light up, and a love strong and sweet grows between them. With days slipping away like sand in an hourglass, June begins to write their love into words, determined to give the boy she loves the story of them ... and the world a reminder of who they might have been if their stars were written differently. Because even when your heartbeat stops, a true love story never dies.
Date Published:2025

Unabridged. Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamed of becoming a novelist and writing the greatest love story ever told. One that would fill hearts and souls with happiness and joy. However, June has never been in love, and when she receives some devastating news, it doesn't feel as if there's much time left for her own beautiful love story. That is, until she meets Jesse Taylor, the boy who treats every day as if it's his last. Which could be true ... for them both. But together, their shattered worlds light up, and a love strong and sweet grows between them. With days slipping away like sand in an hourglass, June begins to write their love into words, determined to give the boy she loves the story of them ... and the world a reminder of who they might have been if their stars were written differently. Because even when your heartbeat stops, a true love story never dies.

Date Published:2025

The things they carried : a work of fiction /

O'Brien, Tim, 1946-


Things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the Rainy River -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- Dentist -- Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong -- Stockings -- Church -- Man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- Ghost soldiers -- Night life -- Lives of the dead. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.
Date Published:1990

Things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the Rainy River -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- Dentist -- Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong -- Stockings -- Church -- Man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- Ghost soldiers -- Night life -- Lives of the dead. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.

Date Published:1990

Concrete mixers

McClellan, Ray.


Simple text and supportive images introduce young readers to concrete mixers.
Date Published:2007