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2024.
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"Every day, more and more people fleeing war in the north show up at Kyung Tak and her family's house on the southeastern shore of Korea. With nowhere else to go, the Taks' home is these migrants' last chance of refuge "before falling into the sea," and the household quickly becomes crowded, hot, and noisy. Then war sirens cry out over Kyung's city too, and her family and their guests take shelter underground. When the sirens stop, Kyung is upset--she...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Every summer, the branches of a little girl's favorite tree droops heavy with mangoes. And this year, she is finally old enough to help her family harvest them. Her brother shares a memory about his first time mango picking: his father holding him steady as he reached high above for the fruit. But when the girl climbs the tree, she becomes too dizzy. Then her grandma shares a mango memory: learning, many years ago, to toss a stone that knocked the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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In this reminder to celebrate everyday joys in life along with the grand achievements, sweet, silly and creative Zuni marks the moments that have made an impact on her and puts them in her family's memory jar to be shared at the end of the year.
5) Desert song
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"A family sings and plays music on a desert evening, in harmony with the nearby wildlife and the ancestors above."--
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One and only Ivan stories volume 4
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Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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"Brace yourself for a modern fairy tale that challenges norms and celebrates love in all its forms. Fantastical Adventure Awaits: Join our protagonists on a fantastical journey filled with pirates, dragons, trolls, and wizards. Watch as their love transcends the ordinary and withstands the challenges of a magical realm. This is not your typical love story; it's an adventure of a lifetime! Diverse Families, Diverse Love: Explore the heartwarming...
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"Skye Nickson's world changed forever when her dad went on the run with her brother, Finn. It's been four years without Finn's jokes, four years without her father's old soul music, and four years of Skye filling in as Rent-a-Finn for their mom. Finn's birthday is always difficult, but at least Skye has her best friends, Reece and Jax, to lean on, even if Reece has started acting too cool for them. But this year is different, because after Finn's...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Pavlo does not feel like going to the park. Not today. He does not want to go swimming. He even says no to the movies. What's going on, Pavlo? Pavlo has the grumps. Though Mama suggests one fun activity after another, Pavlo doesn't want to do any of them. Can anything cheer him up on this down day? Capturing a range of emotions through nuanced expressions and a simple text, Natalia Shaloshvili's comforting picture book looks at familiar childhood...
11) Bea's bad day
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
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Bea struggles to manage her emotions when her birthday does not go according to plan.
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Series
Darkness outside us volume 2
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Seventeen years have gone by since the Coordinated Endeavor crashed on a distant exoplanet. Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius are now the devoted parents of two teenage children, Owl and Yarrow, in a hardscrabble frontier home. Though life on Minerva is full of danger, the family's bond is enough to make it all worth it--until they learn that the biggest threat to their survival might come from within. More than thirty thousand years in the past, Ambrose...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
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"High up in the leafy branches of a tree lives a leaf girl named Oak and her family. Oak loves nothing more than playing with her animal friends of the forest -- dancing with Squirrel and holding toadstool tea parties with the bumbling bugs. But as the season begins to change, and a slight chill fills the air, the usual bustle of the tree begins to slow. As winter approaches and the family prepares to make their annual move from the tree to an acorn...
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I survived volume 20
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Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"Picture book about an Anishinaabe family heading to the reservation to visit the baby's grandparents for Christmas. A story about combining Western and Indigenous celebrations, this book is shared in the hopes of bringing people together to understand and feel good about the Anishinaabe way, however you choose to live it."--
16) Blast off!
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Abby in orbit volume 1
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It is Abby Baxter's first day of third grade on the OASIS International Space Station and she is determined not to make any mistakes, but getting used to microgravity, watching her little brother, Nico, and meeting her new classmates, causes her to almost mess up Mami's big experiment.
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Pub. Date
2024
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"It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya's father, start to make their presence known, an even greater threat takes over Sofiya's life. The only escape Sofiya has is the dolphinarium...
20) No going back
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Pub. Date
2024.
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338 pages ; 22 cm
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Told over the course of forty-eight hours, seventeen-year-old Tony heads back to his old life in Des Moines, Washington after being released from a youth detention center, but toxic old relationships and unforseen challenges make staying on the straight-and-narrow nearly impossible.
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