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by
Joy Michael Ellison
(15)
Summary: After Flor's mother dies in early 1969, she is left with her grandmother who refuses to accept Flor's identity as a trans girl. Flor decides that in order to be true to herself, she must leave home....
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Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Dan Gutman
Summary: A.J. and his friends are visiting New York City! They're hitting all the classic tourist stops -- Times Square, Radio City Music Hall, the Met, and more. Their tour guide, Mrs. Mentry, is determined...
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Call #: J GN GUT
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sarah Mlynowski
Series:
Best Wishes (Mlynowski) - #3
Summary: Lucy Usthorn of Fort Worth, Texas, is super excited for her class trip to the Natural History Museum. Sure, Ms. Brock, the strict school librarian who happens to be dating Lucy's dad (awkward) is...
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Call #: J F MLYNOWSKI
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Ann M Martin
Series:
Baby-sitters Club (Graphic Novels)
Summary: Stacey is so excited! Her friends from the Baby-sitters Club are coming to New York City for a long weekend. It's going to be perfect -- a party and a sleepover on Friday night, a big baby-sitting...
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Call #: J GN BAB
Location: New Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #7
Summary: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people! But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Patricia Park
(409)
Summary: Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and...
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Call #: YA F PARK
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alex Gino
(855)
Summary: Middle school student Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam's family is very cool with it -- as long as Sam...
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Call #: J F GINO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Zetta Elliott
Series:
Dragons In A Bag - #3
(171)
Summary: Ever since the baby dragons were returned to the magical realm, things have been off. The Brooklyn summer has been unusually cold, a strange sleeping sickness is spreading across the city, and...
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Call #: J F ELLIOTT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jacqueline Woodson
(831)
Summary: It's getting hot outside, hot enough to turn on the hydrants and run through the water -- and that means it's finally summer in the city! Released from school and reveling in their freedom, the kids...
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Call #: J P HISTORY WOODSON
Location: Junior Picture Books - History
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bernard Waber creator
Summary: When the Primm family moves to New York City and into the house on East 88th Street, they are surprised to find a crocodile living in their attic. But Lyle isn't a regular crocodile -- he's playful,...
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Call #: J READER GREEN WABER
Location: Junior Readers Green
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Bernard Waber creator
(1)
Summary: When twelve-year-old Josh Primm and his family move to New York City and into the house on East 88th Street, they are surprised to find a crocodile living in their attic. But Lyle isn't just any...
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Call #: J F WABER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sarah Mlynowski
Series:
Best Wishes (Mlynowski) - #1
(175)
Summary: Becca Singer is having the worst day ever. Her best friend, Harper, dumped her, and Becca is totally friendless and alone. Then the box arrives in the mail. Inside the box? One bracelet, plus a...
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Call #: J F MLYNOWSKI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
(1,175)
Summary: Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own father, the whole crew is packed and ready for a cross-country adventure. Things get off to a rocky start when the car breaks...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #5
(1,971)
Summary: It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his best friend and the Vanderbeeker children...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alan Gratz
(14,926)
Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that...
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Call #: J F GRATZ
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michael Garland
(59)
Summary: A child describes each moment of the ferry boat ride from Manhattan to Staten Island and back, including seeing the Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano Bridge.
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Call #: J READER GREEN GARLAND
Location: Junior Readers Green
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Yvette Clark
(399)
Summary: After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal" -- whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he,...
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BOOK
Call #: J F CLARK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jessika Fleck
Series:
Girls Survive
(96)
Summary: Life in lower Manhattan is normal for Molly, her dads, and younger sister. But on September 11, 2001, everything changes. Molly and her younger sister, Adeline, are at school when the first plane...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lauren Tarshis creator
(1,007)
Summary: The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad's best friend at the fire department where they both work. Benny taught Lucas everything about football. So when Lucas'...
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BOOK
Call #: J GN TAR
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sarwat Chadda
(2,637)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik...
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Call #: J F CHADDA
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Christy Webster
(16)
Summary: When Barbie travels to the big city to attend an arts academy, she meets another Barbie Roberts, and as they compete for the Spotlight Solo in Times Square, the friends discover competition is not all about winning.
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Call #: J READER GREEN BARBIE
Location: Junior Readers Green
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Zetta Elliott
Series:
Dragons In A Bag - #2
Summary: Jaxon had just one job -- to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, only two dragons were left in the bag. His best friend's sister, Kavita, is a dragon thief! Kavita...
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BOOK
Call #: J F ELLIOTT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew E. C. Gaska
(141)
Summary: From the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels comes a newly adapted graphic novel taking readers on their own visual adventure! Enter a ghoulish world of nightmares, witches, ghosts, and the dreaded...
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Call #: J GN CHO
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Margarita Engle
(216)
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all.
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Call #: J P HISTORY ENGLE
Location: Junior Picture Books - History
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Torrey Maldonado
(1,152)
Summary: Anything his friends can do, Stephen should be able to do too, right? So when they dare each other to sneak into an abandoned building, he doesn't think it's his lane, but he goes. Here's the thing,...
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Call #: J F MALDONADO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Julie Gilbert
Series:
Girls Survive
(99)
Summary: In 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several younger siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams...
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Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate Messner
(190)
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in...
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BOOK
Call #: J F MESSNER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
(1,727)
Summary: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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Call #: J F ZOBOI
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #4
(2,744)
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon -- and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Series:
Vanderbeekers - #3
(3,801)
Summary: For the Vanderbeekers, a large bi-racial family living on Harlem's 141st Street, spring break couldn't be off to a better start. Isa has a whole week to prepare for a violin audition, Oliver is...
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Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Courtney Sheinmel
(60)
Summary: "Twins Finn and Molly Parker are whisked away in their magical RV to compete in a scavenger hunt in New York City." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: J F SHEINMEL
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jake Maddox
(15)
Summary: Basketball has always come easily to twelve-year-old Devon Rosario of the Bronx, but it has been a long time since he actually enjoyed playing because Devon's father sees him as the family's second...
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BOOK
Call #: J F MADDOX
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Zetta Elliott
Series:
Dragons In A Bag - #1
Summary: When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother -- but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical...
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BOOK
Call #: J F ELLIOTT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate Messner
Series:
Ranger In Time - #10
(170)
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers...
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BOOK
Call #: J F MESSNER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sydney Taylor
(553)
Summary: In 1912 New York, Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa comes home and asks her help with an important task.
BOOK
Call #: J P HOLIDAYS TAYLOR
Location: Junior Picture Books - Holidays
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Melissa Sarno
(736)
Summary: Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
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Call #: J F SARNO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sarah L. Thomson
Series:
Secrets of the Seven - #3
(49)
Summary: Seeking the third key, middle school geniuses Sam, Martina, and Theo must navigate New York City following clues related to Alexander Hamilton, solving--and surviving--puzzles and traps along the way.
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Call #: J F THOMSON
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Daniel Jose Older
Series:
Dactyl Hill Squad - #1
(970)
Summary: It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other...
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Call #: J F OLDER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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