I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!
A playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
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A playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki’s lost mitten until the bear sneezes. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
Bo, an adventurous, near-sighted armadillo, leaves his mother and brothers to follow a girl heading to a rodeo wearing new red boots which Bo mistakes for another armadillo.
Where did the tree house come from? Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. The first in the Magic Tree House series. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, eBook on Hoopla, eAudio on Libby, and eAudio on Hoopla.
Trees can live a very long time, but what happens when they die? This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla.
A rhyming tour through the amazing animal kingdom, from mammals to millipedes and everything in between.
Imaginative Jack describes the kind of house he would build–one with a racetrack, a flying room, and a gigantic slide. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
Imaginative Jack describes the kind of school he would build–one full of animals, with tubes to transport students directly to their classrooms, and library books that come alive. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
Instead of sending Jordan to the arts school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics. Jordan turns out to be one of the few kids of color in his entire grade and struggles to find balance between his home life in Washington Heights and his new upscale academy. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla, as eAudio on Hoopla, as eBook on Libby or as eAudio on Libby.