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2023 Monarch Award Nominees
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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"Harpreet Singh has a different color for every mood and occasion, from pink for dancing to bhangra beats to red for courage. He especially takes care with his patka--his turban--smoothing it out and making sure it always matches his outfit. But when Harpreet's mom finds a new job in a snowy city and they have to move, all he wants is to be invisible. Will he ever feel a happy sunny yellow again?"--Amazon.com.
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Mr. Terupt volume 2
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Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.
3) November 9
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"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
4) THE EXPATS
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Discover A New Series (WPL-ADULT)
OBD First in Series - ADULT
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2022 - Adult
OBD First in Series - ADULT
OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2022 - Adult
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...
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Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley, " with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
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"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
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Doughnut fix volume 1
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Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville--a town with one street and no restaurants. It's like suddenly they're supposed to be this other family, one that can survive without bagels and movie theaters....
8) Kick push
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"When Epic's family moves to a new neighborhood, he has a hard time making friends and fitting in with his skateboard; but the trick to making new friends is to be yourself!"--
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"For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. All out of money and friends' couches to sleep on, Demi is desperate. Lucky for her, a stranger presents her with the chance of a lifetime: a new identity and the downstairs apartment in a secluded Beachwood Canyon duplex....
10) Counting Thyme
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"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Moving- YOUTH
OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Moving- YOUTH
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Evelyn Del Rey and her best friend Daniela live across the street from each other, but when Evelyn is packing up boxes to move away it is time to say goodbye and make promises to keep in touch.
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"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
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It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news -- Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life -- and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death -- Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine...
15) One kid's trash
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When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.
16) Ghosts
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
K - Fantasy Books
OBD Moving- YOUTH
SGD Most Checked Out Kids Graphic Novels 2021
K - Fantasy Books
OBD Moving- YOUTH
SGD Most Checked Out Kids Graphic Novels 2021
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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis. Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, but Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
18) Long distance
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After moving to Seattle, Vega's dads send her to the very strange Camp Best Friend, where she discovers that one can make new friends without forgetting old ones.
19) Zola's elephant
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A little girl hesitates to initiate a friendship with her new neighbor Zola because she imagines Zola is busy with another friend--an elephant.
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Encanto Read-alikes
Graded Summer - 5th/6th Grade
Encanto Read-alikes
Graded Summer - 5th/6th Grade
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After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.