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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: 1 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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BOOK
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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BOOK
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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BOOK
Call #: J F GLASER
Location: New Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Staff Pick
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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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BOOK
Call #: YA F PARK
Location: YA 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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BOOK
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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BOOK
Call #: J P HISTORY WOODSON
Location: Junior Picture Books - History
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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BOOK
Call #: J F GINO
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Magic Tree House collection [CD book]. Books 29-32](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/278196@2x.jpg)
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by
Mary Pope Osborne
Summary: In "A Big Day for Baseball" Morgan the librarian gives Jack and Annie magical caps that will make them baseball experts. They just need to near the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J CD BOOK F OSBORNE
Location: New Junior CD Books Fiction
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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BOOK
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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BOOK
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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BOOK
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
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
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
Karina Yan Glaser , illustrator
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
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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BOOK
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.
BOOK
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
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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BOOK
Call #: J F CHADDA
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: 0 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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BOOK
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.
BOOK
Call #: J P HISTORY ENGLE
Location: Junior Picture Books - History
copies in: 1 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
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.
BOOK
Call #: J READER GREEN BARBIE
Location: Junior Readers Green
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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BOOK
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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BOOK
Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 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.
BOOK
Call #: J F ZOBOI
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
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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BOOK
Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 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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BOOK
Call #: J F GLASER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karina Yan Glaser
Summary: The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease,...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F GLASER
Location: Junior Playaways
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
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
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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