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2024 Women's History Month for Kids
Art Appreciation (WPL-Youth)
Find Your Voice! Babies & Pre-K
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Art Appreciation (WPL-Youth)
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"Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors"--
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April 3, 2024: New Wonderbooks
Braille Books & Resources for Those with Visual Impairments
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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Braille Books & Resources for Those with Visual Impairments
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...
4) Unfadeable
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2023 Summer Book Picks with Miss Rachel
National Art Month (Middle Grades)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Staff Favorites of 2022
National Art Month (Middle Grades)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Staff Favorites of 2022
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"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
5) Seedfolks
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One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
A vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden, especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant...
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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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"One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard into a playground! Based on a true story, this is the uplifting tale of how the author's aunt and mother first learned to persevere in the face of disappointment and turned a dream into reality. This is a story of children's ability to make a difference and of a community coming together to transform their neighborhood." -- jacket.
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Poplar kids volume 1
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A friendly neighborhood business competition between sixth-graders Rachel Chambers, so quiet she is practically invisible, and Peter S. Gronkowski, future mogul, turns into a ruthless rivalry.
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
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Gustav Gloom volume 4
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While searching for their missing families, Gustav and Fernie discover a magical carousel that transports them to strange places.
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Gustav Gloom volume 1
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Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
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"Evelyn Del Rey es la mejor amiga de Daniela. Hacen todo juntas e incluso viven una al frente de la otra en la misma calle en apartamentos que son casi iguales: Daniela con su mami y su hámster, y Evelyn con su mami, su papi y su gato. Pero no después de hoy--no después de que Evelyn se mudé de su casa. Mientras tanto, las niñas juegan entre las cajas de mudanza hasta la hora de despedirse, y se prometen mantenerse en contacto, pues saben que...
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