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2024 Monarch Award
2024 Monarch List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Great Reads: Kindergarten thru 1st grade
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2024 Monarch List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Great Reads: Kindergarten thru 1st grade
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Bursting with color and fun facts, this delightful history of pizza takes readers through time and around the globe to serve up the real story of the world's favorite food.
From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza. Do YOU like PIZZA? Because right now, somewhere in the world, someone is eating it. Did you know that in the United States we eat 350 slices of pizza every second? Or that in Sweden...
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"Some of Earth's strangest-and creepiest-wonders lie deep below the surface. There's Lake Natron, a Tanzanian lake so briny that its waters can mummify any creature that touches its surface; Lake Maracaibo, a Venezuelan tidal bay where a constantly brewing storm sends an average of 28 lightning bolts per second into the water; and at the bottom of Lake Superior, the crew of the USS Kamloops-which mysteriously disappeared in 1921-remains somehow almost...
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Does Llama Llama love his toys? Of course! Does Llama Llama love to share them? He's not so sure. But when the new neighbor Nelly Gnu comes to visit, Mama makes it clear: It's time to share. But Llama's not so sure it's time to share all his toys. Maybe just his blocks? It could be fun to make a castle with Nelly ... But wait -- Nelly has Llama's little Fuzzy Llama! Can Llama Llama do it? At first he thinks he can ... and then he really thinks he...
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CSPL Books Just Right For 1st Graders
OBD Level Up at Your Library (Summer Reading 2025) - Youth
Snakes for Kids
OBD Level Up at Your Library (Summer Reading 2025) - Youth
Snakes for Kids
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Elephant and Piggie learn to play catch with their new friend Snake.
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New for the fall season, this New York Times bestseller is now available in a sturdy board book edition, previously sold only through the gift set. Snowmen at Night reveals a wonderful wintertime secret--when we are sleeping, the snowmen are out playing! This exuberant, rhyming tale continues to delight young toddlers, as well as older readers, in a format that's just right for little hands.
9) Knight owl
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2023 Caldecott & Newbery Awards (SCPL-YS)
2026 Monarch Book Award
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2023 Caldecott & Newbery Awards (SCPL-YS)
2026 Monarch Book Award
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After achieving his dream of becoming a knight, a small owl protects the castle from a hungry dragon.
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Black Lives (kids)
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Books for the Library Lover (Kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"-- Provided by publisher.
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month
Celebrating Black Creators
FPPL YS Mental Health Awareness 2026
Black History Month
Celebrating Black Creators
FPPL YS Mental Health Awareness 2026
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A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and Brown children everywhere reminds them how much they matter, that they have always mattered and they always will.
13) Octopus moon
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Recently diagnosed with depression, fifth-grader Pearl struggles with self-care and self-love amidst a sea of changes. Critically acclaimed author Bobbie Pyron draws on her own childhood experience to tell the story of a brave girl learning to love herself, leaving readers with the powerful, hopeful message that the moon is always full, even if we can't always see that.
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2025 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
2027 Bluestem Nominees
Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025
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2027 Bluestem Nominees
Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025
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"Down at the bottom of the tall buildings of New York City, Magnolia Wu sits inside her parents' laundromat. She has pinned every lost sock from the laundromat onto a bulletin board in hopes that customers will return to retrieve them. But no one seems to have noticed. In fact, barely anyone has noticed Magnolia at all. What she doesn't know is that this is about to be her most exciting summer yet. When Iris, a new friend from California arrives,...
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And Then We Rise is about Common's journey to wellness as a vital element of his success. A testimony to the benefits of self-care, this book is composed of four different sections, each with its own important lessons: "The Food" focuses on nutrition. "The Body" focuses on fitness. "The Mind" focuses on mental health. And "The Soul" focuses on perhaps the most profound thing of all--spiritual well-being. Common's personal stories act as the backbone...
18) Rubylicious
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When she and her brother uncover a magic rock that will grant them one wish, Pinkalicious and Peter must think long and hard about what they want most in the whole wide world.
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Nothing is as fun as snow, except maybe all the craziness happening right outside this little boy's window! Will he even notice? When the forecast calls for snow, one little boy is thrilled. He keeps peeking outside to see if it's snowing - but he only looks up! His single-minded focus on the sky makes him completely miss the increasingly comical chaos occurring outside his door, which includes a monster truck, a firetruck, escaped monkeys, and carousing...
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Adult Winter Activity Challenge 2025: Non-Fiction
Americans and the Holocaust - Adult
IPPL Wrapped 2024 - Adult Nonfiction
NYT Nonfiction Bestsellers
Americans and the Holocaust - Adult
IPPL Wrapped 2024 - Adult Nonfiction
NYT Nonfiction Bestsellers
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Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...








