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1) Front desk
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Kids - Fiction
KIDS Fic YANG
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KIDS Fic YANG
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KIDS AWARDS YANG
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KIDS AWARDS YANG
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
2) El Deafo
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
4) Echo
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Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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Kids - Book Storage
KIDS Fic JOHNSON
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KIDS Fic JOHNSON
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Kids - Fiction
KIDS Fic JOHNSON
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KIDS Fic JOHNSON
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Kids Awards
KIDS AWARDS JOHNSON
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KIDS AWARDS JOHNSON
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
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KIDS Fic ANDERSO
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KIDS Fic ANDERSO
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YA Fic ANDERSO
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YA Fic ANDERSO
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"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
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Kids - Fiction
KIDS Fic BRADLEY
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KIDS Fic BRADLEY
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YA Fic BRADLEY
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YA Fic BRADLEY
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Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother’s boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide
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KIDS Fic LUKOFF
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KIDS Fic LUKOFF
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KIDS AWARDS LUKOFF
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KIDS AWARDS LUKOFF
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In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.
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Twelve-year-old Lilla wants to make everyone happy, so when her best friend Vivi dares her to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her.
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Kids Awards
KIDS AWARDS 796.525 SOONTOR
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KIDS AWARDS 796.525 SOONTOR
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Kids Then & Now
KIDS THEN&NOW 796.525 SOONTOR
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KIDS THEN&NOW 796.525 SOONTOR
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"On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth...
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Eleven-year-old Joey navigates family, friendships, and her first crush, while looking for answers to why she feels so angry sometimes and by searching for the donor her moms chose.
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Retells a Malaysian folk tale in which a lonely girl, Suraya, inherits from her grandmother a pelesit, a ghostly demon, who proves to be a good companion, bringing both danger and hope.
13) Dreamers
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First 5 Years - Growing Up
F5 GROWING 818 MORALES
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F5 GROWING 818 MORALES
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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"An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
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While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
16) Lubna and Pebble
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"Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does." -- From dust jacket.
17) Miss Quinces
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"[Presents a] graphic novel about a girl who would rather do anything other than celebrate her quinceañera!"--Amazon.
18) Swim team
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Kids Awards
KIDS AWARDS CHRISTM
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KIDS AWARDS CHRISTM
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Teen - Main Street Fiction
YA Fic CHRISTM
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YA Fic CHRISTM
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"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--
19) You go first
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Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.