Graphic Novel
Graphic Novel
White Bird : A Wonder Story
Child graphic novel in English and Spanish, e-book, and e-audiobook. Part of the Wonder series. Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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Graphic Novel
They Called Us Enemy
Adult nonfiction book. and e-book in Spanish and English. A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
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Spanish Language
Spanish Language
White Bird : A Wonder Story
Child graphic novel in English and Spanish, e-book, and e-audiobook. Part of the Wonder series. Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Where to Find:
Spanish Language
The Ickabog
Child fiction book, and e-books in Spanish and English. As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.
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Spanish Language
They Called Us Enemy
Adult nonfiction book. and e-book in Spanish and English. A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
Where to Find:
Fiction
Fiction
Code Talker
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites, that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Fiction
Out of My Mind
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Considered by many to be intellectually disabled, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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Fiction
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Child fiction book, and e-book. Zomorod is eleven and originally from Iran, but please, call her Cindy. From a New York Times bestselling author, a humorous, voice-driven debut novel about growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s.
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Fiction
The City of Ember
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, e-audiobook, and Braille. Book 1 in the series. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Fiction
The Ruins of Gorlan
Child and teen fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. Book 1 of the Ranger's Apprentice series.
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Fiction
Dead End in Norvelt
Child fiction book. e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. Book 1 in the Norvelt series.
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Fiction
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
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Fiction
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Child fiction book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Book 15 of the popular series. On their cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
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Fiction
Anne of Green Gables
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. The story of a little red-headed orphaned girl mistakenly sent to the Cuthberts' farm on Prince Edward Island. Anne's strong character and vivid imagination both help and hinder her as she makes her way through childhood in the pretty little town of Avonlea. Book 1 of the Anne of Green Gables series.
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Fiction
Strange Birds : A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers
Child fiction book. After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
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Fiction
A Good Kind of Trouble
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble, for real.
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Fiction
Black brother, Black Brother
Child fiction book. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested. Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what.
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Fiction
The Ickabog
Child fiction book, and e-books in Spanish and English. As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.
Where to Find:
Fiction
Holes
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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Fiction
Amal Unbound
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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Fiction
Coop Knows the Scoop
Child fiction book. Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
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Fiction
Uglies
Teen fiction book, e-book and e-audiobook. Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. Book 1 in the series.
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Nonfiction
Nonfiction
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Child nonfiction book, and e-book. Young Readers Edition. The memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.
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Nonfiction
They Called Us Enemy
Adult nonfiction book. and e-book in Spanish and English. A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
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Audiobooks
Audiobooks
Code Talker
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites, that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Out of My Mind
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Considered by many to be intellectually disabled, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
The City of Ember
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, e-audiobook, and Braille. Book 1 in the series. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
The Ruins of Gorlan
Child and teen fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. Book 1 of the Ranger's Apprentice series.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Dead End in Norvelt
Child fiction book. e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. Book 1 in the Norvelt series.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Child fiction book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Book 15 of the popular series. On their cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Anne of Green Gables
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. The story of a little red-headed orphaned girl mistakenly sent to the Cuthberts' farm on Prince Edward Island. Anne's strong character and vivid imagination both help and hinder her as she makes her way through childhood in the pretty little town of Avonlea. Book 1 of the Anne of Green Gables series.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
White Bird : A Wonder Story
Child graphic novel in English and Spanish, e-book, and e-audiobook. Part of the Wonder series. Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
A Good Kind of Trouble
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what? Shay's sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that's trouble, for real.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Holes
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Amal Unbound
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
Where to Find:
Audiobooks
Uglies
Teen fiction book, e-book and e-audiobook. Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. Book 1 in the series.
Where to Find:
eBooks
eBooks
Code Talker
Child fiction book, e-book, and e-audiobook. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites, that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Where to Find:
eBooks
Out of My Mind
Child fiction book, e-book, audiobook on CD, and e-audiobook. Considered by many to be intellectually disabled, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Where to Find:
eBooks
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Child fiction book, and e-book. Zomorod is eleven and originally from Iran, but please, call her Cindy. From a New York Times bestselling author, a humorous, voice-driven debut novel about growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s.
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