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Jewish American Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
Jewish American Heritage Month: Kids (May 2023)
OBD Historical Fiction - YOUTH
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A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
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In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...
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In Pompeii in AD 79, eleven-year-old slave boy Marcus runs away with his father, who has been sold to become a gladiator, and they escape to Vesuvius, only to return to the city the following morning to warn the inhabitants of the coming eruption.
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
Friendship Stories
GPLD 2023 Fall Favorites: Beginning Readers
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Friendship Stories
GPLD 2023 Fall Favorites: Beginning Readers
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The adventures of best friends Frog and Toad, including Frog's suffering a bad cold and Toad's embarrassment over his unflattering bathing suit, are accompanied by material on the origins of books in the "I Can Read" series.
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I survived volume 1
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If You Like...Hatchet
Juvenile Historical Fiction
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
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Juvenile Historical Fiction
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Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
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Best Non Fiction of 2023
OBD Women's History Month - ADULT
Women's History Month
Women's History Month 2024 - Adult
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Women's History Month
Women's History Month 2024 - Adult
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"Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. They were pilots, codebreakers, chemists, translators, truck drivers, and more. Their work was at the heart of the Allied strategy that won World War II. Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the...
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Secret series volume 2
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Cass and Max-Ernest discover the Museum of Magic, unscramble more coded messages, and solve new mysteries in their attempt to thwart the Terces Society's ambitions of discovering immortality.
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2nd Grade Recommended Reads
At the Library Children's
OBD National Library Week (April) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Early Readers)
At the Library Children's
OBD National Library Week (April) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Early Readers)
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"The Bad Seed is in a good mood ... for once. That's because there's a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads, until the book can't be read anymore. But suddenly, he gets bad news: The book must be returned to the library so another seed can enjoy it. Will the bad seed return to his baaaaaad ways and keep the book? Pick up this really cool book to find out! The Bad Seed Goes to the Library is a Level...
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"A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week. So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and...
17) Farmer boy
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While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing-his very own horse-but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
18) Pajama Day
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Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, is excited to wear her elegant nightgown for Pajama Day at school, until best friend Bree and schoolmate Clara impress everyone by wearing matching pink polka-dot pajamas.
20) Olivia
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Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 1
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Read along and try to keep up as Olivia dresses up, sings songs, builds sand castles, naps (maybe), dances, paints on walls and goes to sleep at last! Teaches reading comprehension, art and music appreciation, sequencing and character identification.
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