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1) Notorious
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Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
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My father's dragon volume 1
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English
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Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Dragons - YOUTH
OBD Reading Is Magical - YOUTH
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Dragons - YOUTH
OBD Reading Is Magical - YOUTH
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"When Elmer Elevator hears about a baby dragon being held captive on Wild Island, he knows just what to do. First he packs his knapsack with important supplies like chewing gum, lollipops, and lots of rubber bands. Then he stows away on a ship headed for the island. There he'll meet many animals who try to stop him, but Elmer has a few tricks up his sleeve . . . or more precisely, in his knapsack. One way or another, he will rescue the dragon!"--Amazon.com....
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ARRGH You Ready to Read?
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
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RPS Children's Books about Homeschooling
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
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RPS Children's Books about Homeschooling
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CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Shipwrecked on an unchartered island, the Swiss Family Robinson - mother, father and four young boys - make the most of their predicament, adapting to the island and turning the absence of civilization to their advantage. Through perseverance, hard work and self reliance, they become masters of their new environment. Their experience is colourful, creative and filled with exciting adventures. This illustrated...
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"There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to a faraway Arctic outpost for six months. But one night, April catches a glimpse of something distinctly bear shaped loping across the horizon. A polar bear who shouldn't be there--who is hungry, lonely, and a long way from home. As their unlikely bond grows, April is determined to save her new friend--and so begins...
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Favorite Family Listens -- Audiobooks (SCPL-YS)
GPLD Best Sci-Fi for Teens
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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GPLD Best Sci-Fi for Teens
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling...
7) Touch blue
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When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
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A pinch of magic volume 2
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English
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When their sister Charlie is kidnapped by poachers, Betty, Fliss, and their newfound friend Willow embark on a high seas adventure involving ghosts, fierce pirates and a journey to a mythic island that only exists in legend.
10) Burn for burn
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Burn for burn trilogy volume 1
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"Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them"--
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 38
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English
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"When the magic tree house returns it whisks Jack and Annie away to the Galapagos Islands where they become World Turtle Experts and must save a tortoise in danger of an erupting volcano"--
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Emily Windsnap volume 6
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A class trip to a beautiful island is overshadowed by a local myth about a mysterious ship that may have ties to the lost city of Atlantis.
13) We were liars
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"A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends--the Liars--whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE"--
Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit,...
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Virals novels volume 3
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"The Virals must find a geocache concealing a bomb--and the clock is ticking."--Provided by publisher.
15) Islandborn
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month (Youth)
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Hispanic Heritage 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month (Youth)
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
16) Airman
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In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
17) Surprise Island
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April 17, 2024: New J & Y Books
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Summer Chapter Books - YOUTH
OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Summer Chapter Books - YOUTH
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"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
18) Conjure Island
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"From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she's never met--only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic"--
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Amidst her stay at their grandfather's seaside property, ten-year-old Bee Snolly wants to focus on aiding her ailing Granddaddy, yet as she delves into the islands' secrets with her sisters, they start off on a journey to uncover a long-buried secret that may assist them all.
20) The end
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Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.