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Join our Summer Reading Program now through August 31! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Summer Reading is one of our favorite ways to connect with you. This year is going to look a little different but we will have just as much fun! The program is online through Beanstack, an app or web-based program that allows you to track your reading and participate in engaging activities for all ages, including wee readers, kids, teens and adults. |
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Have You Seen My Dragon?
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Steve Light
Traveling among taxis and towers in the heart of an intricately detailed cityscape, a small boy requests help finding his missing dragon, in a story that invites young children to practice counting to 20 and spot the dragon hiding from his friend. By the creator of Zephyr Takes Flight.
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Lola Loves Stories
by Anna McQuinn
Lola loves to hear her father read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day. Simultaneous.
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A Squiggly Story
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Andrew Larsen
A boy who wants to write a story like his big sister learns that every story begins with a single letter or word
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Ideas are All Around
by Philip Christian Stead
A celebration of where ideas come from and how powerful they can be follows the adventures of a narrator and his dog, who walk through the neighborhood greeting friends and imaginatively reflecting on the sights and sounds around them. By the Caldecott Medal-winning author of A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
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Frederick
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Leo Lionni
Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins : The Epic Story
by Susan Tan
When her beloved grandfather, YeYe, suffers a stroke and forgets his English, Chinese-American fifth-grader Cilla Lee-Jenkins finds her efforts to help complicated by personal insecurities, sibling rivalry and middle-school dynamics.
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Twist
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Sarah Cannon
Three gifted kids, including an aspiring horror writer, a fantasy illustrator and a girl who has a gift for managing trouble, accidentally create a doorway between one of their stories and the real world, unleashing violent, once-imaginary creatures on their town.
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Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror
by Natasha Farrant
When an enchantress flings a magic mirror into the human world, princesses everywhere are revealed to have ambitions that are anything but submissive or merely pretty, in a collection of stories featuring empowered heroines who rescue themselves, help others and prioritize kindness first.
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When the Sea Turned to Silver
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Grace Lin
When her grandmother is kidnapped, Pinmei, accompanied by her friend Yishan, embarks on a search for the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night, which she intends to give the cruel Tiger Emperor in exchange for her grandmother.
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Catching a Storyfish
by Janice N Harrington
Keet knows the only good thing about moving away from her Alabama home is that she'll live near her beloved grandfather. When Keet starts school, it's even worse than she expected, as the kids tease her about her southern accent. Now Keet, who can 'talk the whiskers off a catfish,' doesn't want to open her mouth. Slowly, though, while fishing with her grandfather, she learns the art of listening. But just as she's beginning to settle in, her grandfather has a stroke, and even though he's still nearby, he suddenly feels ever-so-far-away. Keet is determined to reel him back to her by telling him stories; in the process she finds her voice.
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Spilling Ink : A Young Writer's Handbook
by Anne Mazer
Combines inspirational anecdotes and writing prompts with practical writing guidance on how to find one's voice, develop characters and plot, make revisions, and overcome writer's block
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Write! Write! Write!
by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater
A poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process also celebrates how writing teaches patience, helps express opinions and allows us to imagine the impossible. Illustrations.
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Will's Words : How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
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Jane Sutcliffe
Looks at William Shakespeare and the way his use of words affected our use of the English language today, in the form of a narrative about the writer and his times with words and phrases highlighted that were first used by him, and informative parallel text about them
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Planting Stories : The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
by Anika Denise
A lyrical picture book portrait of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian describes how Pura Belpré moved to America in 1921 and became an influential writer and puppeteer who is celebrated for championing bilingual literature. 50,000 first printing.
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Out of Wonder : Poems Celebrating Poets
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Kwame Alexander
A lyrical ode to poets by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover and the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Voice of Freedom features original poems crafted to honor 20 famed writers who have inspired and motivated their readers.
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A Dollar, A Penny, How Much and How Many?
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Brian P. Cleary
With rhyming text, explains the basics of counting and using money, covering the types of bills and coins, the value of each, and how to combine the denominations to buy different items
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Women Win the Vote! : 19 for the 19th Amendment
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Nancy B. Kennedy
Published to commemorate the 19th Amendment’s centennial, a collection of short biographies introduces 19 famous and lesser-known suffrage trailblazers who fought for women’s rights, including Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth and Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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A Woman in the House (and Senate) : How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation
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Ilene Cooper
Tracing the period between the women’s suffrage movement through the results of the 2018 election, an updated chronicle of women’s contributions to politics in the United States features archival photographs and portraits of such luminaries as Nancy Pelosi, Patsy Mink, Shirley Chisholm and newcomers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 15,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Miss Paul and the President : The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote
by Dean Robbins
A picture book introduction to the achievements and legacy of indefatigable suffragette Alice Paul describes how she launched campaigns, organized protests and met with President Woodrow Wilson to secure voting rights for women after realizing that key civil rights imbalances existed between men and women. Simultaneous eBook.
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Two Friends : Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
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Dean Robbins
Sharing time regularly over tea to discuss their views about equality, civil rights activists and good friends Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony exchange the stories that motivate their goals in a story inspired by a statue in their hometown of Rochester, New York.
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Women's Suffrage
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Nancy Ohlin
An introduction to the women's suffrage movement is set against a backdrop of political and cultural events and includes coverage of lesser-known facts, from how suffragists were the first people to picket the White House and how the 19th Amendment only passed by a single vote. Simultaneous.
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