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Really smart, funny, feminist, anti-capitalist satire about what it's like to be a teen girl (and not necessarily just a cis/straight/able-bodied and/or white teen girl).
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… Really smart, funny, feminist, anti-capitalist satire about what it's like to be a teen girl (and not necessarily … them a space to deconstruct those pressures. This story (about a beauty pageant, no less!) rejects unhealthy …
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… medical research. People who join will share information about their health, habits, and what it's like where they … live. By looking for patterns, researchers will learn more about what affects people's health. … Learn how you can be …
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John Woodrow Cox's powerful book examines the countless victims of gun violence that are not counted as victims - the classmates, siblings, children, parents, teachers, friends, grand parents , and…
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… family are affected every single day by the PTSD. I was about one third of the way through the book when I started … teachers and school staff suffered trauma as they worried about how they could keep their students safe and would they …
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Have to read a book that's won the Newbery Award? You've got lots of great choices! Click below for a list of winners and honor books by year, or explore Newbery Award winning titles here…
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… | Nonfiction | Science Fiction and Fantasy | Stories about Journeys | Stories Published Before Your Mom Was Born | … Rats of NIMH . Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me . Stories about Journeys Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons . de la Peña, …
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Kids app
Introduce your child to mindfulness and meditation through this playful, contemplative app. When you open your account, you can create profiles for multiple children.
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… can use in case of a Meltdown. The meditations range from about 2-6 minutes long and a simple animation is shown during … This emoji exercise is a great way to get kids talking about different nuances of emotion beyond just “happy” and …
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… Barton Victo Nnagi Milbrook 2017 The little known stories about WWI naval ships painted to confuse submarines. The Book … Collins 2002 A collection of sweet and funny stories about a Seminole-Cherokee kid and his family. Separate is …
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White Bird is a stunning graphic novel about one of the ugliest events in history. Set in France during World War II, White Bird tells the story of Sara and Julien, classmates at a rural school…
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… White Bird is a stunning graphic novel about one of the ugliest events in history. Set in France … Palacio's connection to the story and resource information about the war and the time period for further discussion or …
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Book list
October - December 2022 Issue
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… university lecturer who taught it; he learns more about her and her historical interests after she dies and … Downstairs . A collection of eight interconnected stories about the African-American residents of a low-income … Mecca Jamilah. Big Girl . This coming-of-age story is about a girl growing up in Harlem in the 1990s who is …
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Book club kit
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask.…
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… ever to resist her friend's siren song. A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls … of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most. …
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Attend a party in the library this May. Our first location opened on May 31, 1875, and we're ringing in 150 years with birthday cake, giveaways, and interactive activities for every age at all nine…
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… Floor. Share your first library memory, what you love about the library, and your hopes for the library of the … and Shopping Centers - Growing up Together. Learn about east side history during a panel featuring Sarah White … cake fun! Share your first library memory, what you love about the library, and your hopes for the library of the …
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October - December 2013 Issue
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… of Dogs: What a Handful of ‘Unadoptables’ Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing . Cojean, Annick. Gaddafi’s … . Fletcher, Anne M. Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth about Addiction Treatment - And How to Get Help That Works . … Lasky, Dorothea. Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry . Leamer, Laurence. The Price of Justice: A True …
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There are lots of ways to be strong. When Rob Kearney was a kid he was STRONG. He was able to lift heavy boxes and open jars with the tightest lids. He tried activities that tested his strength. His…
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… fascinating and something that I've always been curious about. The book includes further reading, photos of the real Rob, information about the Strongman sport and beautiful illustrations …
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Francis the donkey is a shoemaker. He does what he loves and makes the other animals very happy with his beautiful shoes. He has great friends and a comfortable routine.
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… get started on the shoes for Miss Manatee and is worried about his friend. So he decides to journey into the jungle … to help solve problems and make life better. It's also about the power of saying, "I'm sorry." Added bonus: this is …
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The Right Swipe tackles the intersection of technology and modern love, where an app developer and a rival company's spokesman end up filming a series of promotional videos and fall in love in the…
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… story arc seems, judging from the covers alone, to be less about the angst that made me love the Forbidden Hearts series … POV which make obvious that Rhiannon's assumptions about Samson are incorrect. But Rai was obviously influenced …
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… stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths … into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In … approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society—and in so doing shattered the …
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Sergeant Sanda Greeve wakes alone in the medical bay of a strange ship. Worse, it's an enemy ship and the only other inhabitant is the sentient artificial intelligence who runs the ship, The Light of…
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… Berossus , aka Bero. And that's not the worst news she's about to hear. Bero shows her that Ada Prime (Sanda's home … than war with the Icarions. I'm not going to say much more about the plot as there were some great twists and turns in …
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I read the first book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, A Deadly Education, last year and loved it. Harry Potter meets the Hunger Games with a scrappy, angry underdog protagonist and an odd-…
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… of those answers flips all of your previous understandings about the series on their head. I sincerely need to go back … new eyes. The entire series has themes woven throughout about privilege and how it directly affects those who have it …
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These two books have teen LGBTQ+ representation and you get to experience other worlds, but things aren’t always easygoing.
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
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… fiction, this will have you on the edge as you learn about the lengths family and friends will go through for each … their true selves but are drawn to each other. They learn about the ups and downs of making friends, being truthful and …
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Old Mother Goose,
When she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air,
On a very fine gander.
New Dada Geese,
When they want to wander,
Play around with old rhymes,
To make them goofy grander.
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… fun and rhymes, a notes section provides more information about some of the Dadaist variations, like Morse code and … There’s also Mother Goose history and information about Blanche Fisher Wright, the author of The Real Mother …
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This is the best/worst book featuring outrageous stories of racist things that have happened to comedy writer and talk show host Amber Ruffin's sister Lacey Lamar. Most of the stories take…
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… lunacy of it all is something else. Lacey remains upbeat about it and there's a fair share of joking around between … the book. Lacey and Amber have been talking on the phone about these stories for decades. When Lacey calls Amber to …
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I had a local friend recently ask me why Madison Public Library didn’t have Tonies for check out - if you’re unfamiliar they are small plastic figures that pair with an integrated system for audio…
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… our collections management team thinks really critically about system wide implementation before investing in a new … feels independent and in his own world, and I am excited about the book literacies he is still developing - connecting …
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Kids app
Would you like to see more people of color in your children's books? Diversity in the things we read benefits EVERYONE.
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… is also important that white kids and families read books about and by people of color with different life experiences … keywords in the descriptions, making it easy to find books about, say, dragons! This app has been around for a few …
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I was so excited when I was offered a galley of Hartman's new novel set in the fantasy realm of Goredd first introduced in Seraphina. Here we meet Seraphina's half-sister Tess. Tess chafes at the…
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… telling you right now that all the nay-sayers (and it's about 50-50) are totally wrong and I'm totally right. The … But she's an incredibly real young woman. Her feelings about her place in her family, the roles she and her sisters …
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In this book list:
Board Books
Picture Books and Early Readers
School Age
Teens and YA (Young Adult)
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… reflections of themselves in this vibrant, rhyming reader about the joy of being a boy--listening to music, swimming, … comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood. … a competition team. If Doug doesn't win, he has to forget about becoming The World's Greatest Inventor and spend the …
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The publisher's blurb for this book mentions the movie Get Out and that's a fair comparison. But I recently heard author Zakiya Dalila Harris talking about the influences on her writing and she…
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… But I recently heard author Zakiya Dalila Harris talking about the influences on her writing and she mentioned Stephen … Now." That's as far as I'm going to go in telling you about the plot as part of the delight I had in this book was …
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