Holly Goldberg Sloan
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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2022 Caudill Award Nominees
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Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
Author
Language
English
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2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Count Down To New Years
Neurodivergent Characters in Children's Novels
Count Down To New Years
Neurodivergent Characters in Children's Novels
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Description
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
3) Short
Author
Language
English
Description
"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive, one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins, and with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Holly Goldberg Sloan, a hilarious and heartfelt novel for fans of Maria Semple and Emma Straub about a family trying to restore a ramshackle beachside motel-and their own lives. What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through? When Paul Hill drowns in a surfing accident, he leaves his wife, Lindsey, and their three children...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Willow tiene doce años, es superdotada y su gran pasión son las plantas, las enfermedades y el número siete. Sus padres adoptivos son su única familia y sus verdaderos amigos, pero cuando éstos mueren en un accidente se da cuenta de que está sola en un mundo con el que no es capaz de relacionarse. A partir de ese momento, la vida de Willow se convierte en un viaje transformador en el que gracias a sus manías y a su extraordinaria sensibilidad,...
10) Keeper
Author
Publisher
AV² by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A timid eighth-grade girl's life changes when her best friend convinces her to try out for the soccer team.
11) Pequena
Author
Publisher
Grantravesia
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"--
12) The big green
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A soccer team gets started in a small town to give the local kids a little self-esteem and a little fun. The star player is nowhere to be found right before the big, nasty rival team however.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra - special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Steve attemps to relocate a hugh crocodile to save him from poachers. But what Steve doesn't know is that the big croc has swallowed a top-secret U.S. satellite beacon ... making them both targets of the U.S. special agents assigned to retrieve the beacon.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
Angels in the outfield. A boy, praying for his father's return, and the California Angels, praying for a pennant, join forces and learn to believe that anything is possible.
Angels in the infield. The daughter of a big league pitcher on a losing streak prays for some help to restore his self-confidence. Her prayers are answered - sort of - with the arrival of the late, almost great, Bob Bugler.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], 2000.
Language
English
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.