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Junie B. Jones is a beauty shop guy

Park, Barbara


"A Stepping stone book." After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results.
Date Published:1998

The Barrio kings

Kowalski, William, 1970-


"Look, man, real life is not always pretty. Sometimes you gotta do hard things. You have to protect what's yours in this life. No one else can do that for you."
Date Published:2010

Partypooper

Kinney, Jeff,


Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate birthday party—for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations flop, and the surprises backfire, this birthday bash turns into a total blowout—just not the kind Greg had in mind.
Date Published:2025

Paint with Ploof

Clanton, Ben, 1988-



Date Published:2024

Steve, a rare egg

Collier, Kelly,


Steve discovers a rare red egg, and decides to take care of it until they find its parents. After all, Steve knows a lot about caring for eggs. What could possibly go wrong?
Date Published:2025

Love is a war song

Nava, Danica,


Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of Rolling Stone in a feather war bonnet. What was meant to be a statement of her success as a Native American singer has turned her into a social pariah and dubbed her a fake. With threats coming from every direction and her career at a standstill, she escapes to her estranged grandmother Lottie's ranch in Oklahoma. Living on the rez is new to Avery: not only does she have to work in the blazing summer heat to earn her keep, but the man who runs Lottie's horse ranch despises her and wants her gone.
Date Published:2025

Pop singer Avery Fox has become a national joke after posing scantily clad on the cover of Rolling Stone in a feather war bonnet. What was meant to be a statement of her success as a Native American singer has turned her into a social pariah and dubbed her a fake. With threats coming from every direction and her career at a standstill, she escapes to her estranged grandmother Lottie's ranch in Oklahoma. Living on the rez is new to Avery: not only does she have to work in the blazing summer heat to earn her keep, but the man who runs Lottie's horse ranch despises her and wants her gone.

Date Published:2025

The Samurai's garden

Tsukiyama, Gail



Date Published:1994

Shola's game : a novel

Durkin, Shawn, 1971-


Illustrations drawn by Catherine Doherty.
Date Published:2006

Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang

Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001.


Jacob Two-Two, the youngest of five children, says everything twice because no one listens to him the first time. But when he asks Mr. Cooper for two pounds of tomatoes two times, he is convicted of insulting a grown-up and exiled to Slimers' Isle - a nightmarish prison guarded by ugly creatures including the dreaded Hooded Fang.
Date Published:1975

Best girl

Warsh, Sylvia Maultash.


Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her. Shelley is also a hairdresser. But beyond that, mother and daughter don't see eye to eye on much ...
Date Published:2012

Evil behind that door

Fradkin, Barbara Fraser, 1947-


When he agrees to help former classmate Barry Mitchell renovate his house, Cedric O'Toole is surprised that Barry, who is the prime suspect in his parents' disappearance, is afraid of opening the boarded-up room in his basement.
Date Published:2012

Dirty work

Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-


"Dowd is shocked to discover that his mysterious new client is Nina, his high-school girlfriend and the one true love of his life. But the real surprise is yet to come. Nina hires Gulliver to find her runaway daughter, convincing him to take the case only when she confesses that the missing girl is Dowd's daughter too, the product of their high-school romance. When he takes the case, Dowd must travel from an exclusive girls' academy to a Mafia don's mansion to seek the answer to his newfound daughter's disappearance. But all is not what it seems. What is the real surprise awaiting Gulliver Dowd?"
Date Published:2013

"Dowd is shocked to discover that his mysterious new client is Nina, his high-school girlfriend and the one true love of his life. But the real surprise is yet to come. Nina hires Gulliver to find her runaway daughter, convincing him to take the case only when she confesses that the missing girl is Dowd's daughter too, the product of their high-school romance. When he takes the case, Dowd must travel from an exclusive girls' academy to a Mafia don's mansion to seek the answer to his newfound daughter's disappearance. But all is not what it seems. What is the real surprise awaiting Gulliver Dowd?"

Date Published:2013

The house on Mango Street

Cisneros, Sandra.


Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
Date Published:2020

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.

Date Published:2020

Too many cats

Houran, Lori Haskins


A woman's cello playing draws all of the neighborhood cats into her yard, where they wreak havoc before starting to make their own kind of music.
Date Published:2009

As she grows

Cowan, Lesley Anne.


Includes readers' guide. As She Grows is the affecting story of Snow, just 16, whose life has been troubled from the start. She lives with her grandmother, a well-intentioned but ineffectual, mentally ill alcoholic. Her mother, an apparent victim of drowning shortly after Snow's birth, is both a haunting and comforting presence in Snow's life.
Date Published:2003

Junie B., first grader : toothless wonder

Park, Barbara


"A Stepping stone book." Junie B. Jones learns some interesting things about the Tooth Fairy when she becomes the first student in Room One to lose an upper tooth.
Date Published:2002

The little prince

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.


Some copies may be accompanied by 2 audio CDs. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life.
Date Published:2017

The bride test : a novel

Hoang, Helen.


Includes reading group guide. Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect mail-order bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who believes he can never return her affection. Esme must convince Khai that there is more than one way to love. And Khai must figure out the inner workings of his heart before Esme goes home and is an ocean away.
Date Published:2019

Includes reading group guide. Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect mail-order bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity to marry an American arises, she leaps at it, thinking that it could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who believes he can never return her affection. Esme must convince Khai that there is more than one way to love. And Khai must figure out the inner workings of his heart before Esme goes home and is an ocean away.

Date Published:2019

Salma the Syrian chef

Ramadan, Ahmad Danny.


All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand and a sprinkle of sumac.
Date Published:2022

All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand and a sprinkle of sumac.

Date Published:2022

P.S. I still love you

Han, Jenny


Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?
Date Published:2015