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Green Hills Staff Favorites - Youth Books
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2022-2023 (Adult)
Green Hills All Staff Favorites
Green Hills Staff Favorites - Youth Books
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2022-2023 (Adult)
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"After Mary Lennox's parents pass away, she is sent to a large, isolated house in Yorkshire to live with an uncle she has never met. Ill-tempered, obstinate Mary dislikes her new home, but when she finds the key to a locked garden she realises there are fascinating secrets waiting to be uncovered at Misselthwaite Manor. With the help of new friends, Mary resolves to bring the neglected garden back to life - and her own transformation begins. This...
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Starry River of the Sky volume 3
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
Wintry World: Middle School Reads
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
Wintry World: Middle School Reads
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Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most exciting tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a...
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Picture Books About Black Joy
RLG Diverse Stories
Toddlers
Picture Books About Black Joy
RLG Diverse Stories
Toddlers
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"When Grandma Mimi comes to visit, her granddaughter cannot wait to see what treasures she has hidden in her purse"--Provided by publisher.
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Aurora County trilogy volume 1
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When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a house shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and...
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Charlotte Holmes volume 1
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Eisenhower Public Library Young Adult Mysteries
GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens
OLPL: Dark Academia
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GPLD Best Mystery/Thrillers for Teens
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
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At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
"What does it mean to be fully alive? Magic blends with reality in a stunning coming-of-age novel about a girl, a grandfather, wanderlust, and reclaiming your roots. "Things are only impossible if you stop to think...
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 3
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A long, boring summer -- that's what Anastasia has to look forward to when her best friend goes off to camp. She's thrilled when old Mrs. Bellingham answers her ad for a job as a Lady's Companion. Her troubles will be over. She'll be earning money and be busy. But, she doesn't expect to have to polish silver and serve as a maid at ther granddaughter's birthday party ...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 21
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Nancy Drew must use clues in a dead man's letters to find some unpublished musical manuscripts that will save an old man and his granddaughter from financial ruin.
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Jewish American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month (SCPL-YS)
Jewish American Heritage Month - Kids
Jewish American Heritage Month: Kids and Teen Titles
Jewish American Heritage Month (SCPL-YS)
Jewish American Heritage Month - Kids
Jewish American Heritage Month: Kids and Teen Titles
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"Of her two granddaughters, Grandma Yvette clearly prefers Ruby Taylor's perfect--and perfectly Jewish--cousin, Sarah. They do everything together, including bake cookies and have secret sleep overs that Ruby isn't invited to. Twelve-year-old Ruby suspects Grandma Yvette doesn't think she's Jewish enough. The Jewish religion is matrilineal, which means it's passed down from mother to child, and unlike Sarah, Ruby's mother isn't Jewish. But when Sarah...
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"In the summer of 1984, 12-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet makes the trip from Huntsville, Alabama, to Harlem, where she'll spend a few weeks with her father while her mother deals with some trouble that's arisen for Ebony-Grace's beloved grandfather, Jeremiah. Jeremiah Norfleet is a bit of a celebrity in Huntsville, where he was one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA two decades earlier. And ever since his granddaughter came to live with...
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In this version of the classic song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm, " the farmer's granddaughter plants a garden which provides a place for birds, insects, and other wild creatures to shelter and nest. Backmatter presents facts and activities related to this lively ecosystem.
13) The last leopard
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Legend of the animal healer volume 3
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A third prophecy, this time involving a leopard, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical healing powers over animals, when she travels with her grandmother and best friend Ben to Zimbabwe.
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Time warp trio series volume 11
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Thanks to their magical book, Fred, Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1877 New York City, where they and their granddaughters, who have also come from the future, help them find a way back to their own time.
16) So many me's
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A girl contemplates the many different roles she plays in her family and community, including daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, student, patient, and friend. Includes suggested learning activities.
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