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Iowa Goldfinch Awards
The Iowa Goldfinch Award has been created to promote reading by children in Pre-kindergarten through third grade.
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Troy Cummings illustrator
Series:
Can I Be Your Dog?
(2,314)
Summary: Arfy is a hound on a mission! Bound and determined to find a home, Arfy writes letters to everyone on Butternut Street. Honestly, he's the best dog you could ever want. He's obedient! He's...
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Call #: E CUMMINGS
Location: Junior Picture Books - Animals
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Dion Leonard
(196)
Summary: This is the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! Families everywhere will be delighted by the tale of Gobi, a little dog living all alone in China's Gobi Desert,...
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Call #: E LEONARD
Location: Picture Books
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Chris Gall
(894)
Summary: A dog and a cat, both newly adopted and forced to share a room, do not get along until a howling, smelly, terrifying newcomer unites them in a common cause.
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Call #: E GALL
Location: Picture Books
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Drew Daywalt
(51,152)
Summary: When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.
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Call #: E DAYWALT
Location: Picture Books
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Adam Rubin
Series:
Dragons Love Tacos
(19,359)
Summary: Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and...
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Call #: J P TALES RUBIN
Location: Junior Picture Books - Tales
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Aaron Reynolds
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Jasper Rabbit
Summary: The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
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Call #: J P EXPLORE REYNOLDS
Location: Junior Picture Books - Explore
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Norton Juster
(1,021)
Summary: When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
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Call #: E JUSTER
Location: Picture Books
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Robert Burleigh
(466)
Summary: An account of Amelia Earhart's dangerous 1932 flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland, in which she survived bad weather and a malfunctioning airplane. Includes a brief biography of the aviator.
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Call #: J B EARHART
Location: Junior Biographies
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John Rocco
(10,642)
Summary: When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
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Call #: E ROCCO
Location: Picture Books
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Laban Carrick Hill
(5,388)
Summary: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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Call #: J B DAVE
Location: Junior Biographies
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Marilyn Singer
(4,423)
Summary: A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
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Call #: J 811.54 SIN
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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Kate DiCamillo
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Bink And Gollie Series - #1
(6,899)
Summary: Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
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Sharon Robinson
(895)
Summary: As a testament to his courage, Jackie Robinson's daughter shares memories of him, from his baseball career to the day he tests the ice for her, her brothers, and their friends.
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Call #: J B ROBINSON
Location: Junior Biographies
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Brian Dennis
(1,910)
Summary: The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
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Call #: J 636.7 DEN
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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Geoffrey Hayes
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Benny And Penny
(1,064)
Summary: Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.
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Call #: J GN TOO
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
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Vicki Myron
(7,717)
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
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Call #: E MYRON
Location: Picture Books
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Deborah Hopkinson
(623)
Summary: In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.
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Call #: E HOPKINSON
Location: Picture Books
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Geoffrey Hayes
Series:
Benny And Penny
(483)
Summary: "[S]weet, delicately colored illustrations have an old-fashioned feel that gives the familiar sibling story a timeless qualityA charmer that will invite repeated readings." - Booklist (starred...
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Call #: J GN TOO
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
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Antoinette Portis
(3,936)
Summary: An imaginative young pig shows some of the many things that a stick can be.
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Call #: E PORTIS
Location: Picture Books
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Henry Cole
(491)
Summary: Upon moving to a new house, young Caroline and her parents encourage wildflowers to grow and birds and animals to stay in their yard, which soon has the whole suburban street living up to its name.
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Call #: E COLE
Location: Picture Books
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Catherine Friend
(1,520)
Summary: Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken.
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Call #: E FRIEND
Location: Picture Books
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Rukhsana Khan
Summary: Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.
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Call #: E KHAN
Location: Picture Books
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