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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir." --
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F ELL
1 available
J F ELL
1 available
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Bea wakes to Daddy’s note in a hayloft, where he abandoned her with her little sister after the stock market crash took everything: Daddy’s job at the bank, their home, Mama’s health and life.
How is Bea supposed to convince the imposing Mrs. Scott to take in two stray children? Mrs. Scott’s money and Virginia farm are drying up in a drought and the Great Depression, too. She might have to sell her beautiful horses, starting with a dangerous...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F CUE
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J F CUE
1 available
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5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Have you ever awakened from a dream and thought, what was that?! A platypus waddling through my school while singing the word farfanoogle? Well, that dream was performed by a dream theatre, and this is the story of one such place: The Lunarian Grand. The Lunarian is a magical theatre with a mind of its own, often redecorating on a whim or making it snow from the rafters. The theatre's troupe call themselves the Dreamatics, and together they grow...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F VAN
1 available
J F VAN
1 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October, 1944.
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F LAC
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J F LAC
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"All thirteen-year-old Houston Stewart has ever wanted is to become an astronaut. His dreams feel like they're finally coming true when he's accepted to the highly-competitive Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program – if only he could bring his little brother, Robbie, with him.
Ever since their dad left, Houston and Robbie have been inseparable. It's hard to tell where Houston's love of space ends and where Robbie's begins. But Robbie's cerebral palsy...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F PLA
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J F PLA
1 available
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"Maudie always looks forward to the summers she spends in California with her dad. But this year, she must keep a troubling secret about her home life—one that her mom warned her never to tell. Maudie wants to confide in her dad about her stepdad's anger, but she’s scared.
When a wildfire strikes, Maudie and her dad are forced to evacuate to the beach town where he grew up. It’s another turbulent wave of change. But now, every morning, from...
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite fantasy role-playing game, than face his father’s increasing restrictions and his mother’s fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into the real world and steal their school cafeteria's slushie machine, his dad concocts a punishment Rafa never could’ve imagined―a month working on a ranch in New Mexico, far away from his friends, their...
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Milton Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J F DAI
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J F DAI
1 available
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2 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F FAW
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J F FAW
1 available
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2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her.
While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice to the witch in the nearby woods. After all, who better to teach Grace to use her magic? Surely the witch can’t be that bad.
But the witch is that bad—she steals souls for spells and gobbles up...
10) Half Moon summer
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F VIC
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J F VIC
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1 copy, 15 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Drew was never much of a runner. Until his dad’s unexpected diagnosis. Mia has nothing better to do. Until she realizes entering Half Moon Bay’s half-marathon could solve her family’s housing problems.
And just like that they decide to spend their entire summer training to run 13.1 miles. Drew and Mia have very different reasons for running, but these two twelve year olds have one crucial thing in common (besides sharing a birthday): Hope....
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F ALK
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J F ALK
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Courage is the strongest magic there is.
On Hamra's thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home.
No one has remembered her special day.
And so, stifled and angry, Hamra ignores something she shouldn’t: the rules of the jungle.
Always ask permission before you enter. Hamra walks boldly in.
Never take what isn’t yours. Hamra finds the most perfect...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F OSH
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J F OSH
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1 copy, 29 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Nan was all the family Mo ever needed. But suddenly she’s gone, and Mo finds herself in foster care after her uncle decides she’s not worth sticking around for.
Nan left her a notebook and advised her to get a hobby, like ferret racing or palm reading.
But how could a hobby fix anything in her newly topsy-turvy life?
Then Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else’s family recipes. Even though Nan never cooked, Mo can’t...
13) The lost library
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eAudiobook
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5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
14) The lost year
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F MAR
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J F MAR
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"Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.
But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines...
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F BAL
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J F BAL
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs work. Some days, it seems like her CF is the only thing Penny knows about herself for sure. From her point of view, everyone around her can make sense of their place in the world. So why can't Penny even begin to write a poem about herself for school? Then during spring break Penny spots something impossible in the creek behind her house: a dolphin,...
17) Not an easy win
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F GIL
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J F GIL
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"Nothing’s gone right for Lawrence since he had to move from Charlotte to Larenville, North Carolina, to live with his granny. When Lawrence ends up in one too many fights at his new school, he gets expelled. The fight wasn’t his fault, but since his pop’s been gone, it feels like no one listens to what Lawrence has to say.
Instead of going to school, Lawrence starts spending his days at the rec center, helping out a neighbor who runs a chess...
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Series
Milkweed Meadow volume 1
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J F DIM
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J F DIM
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Butternut is a young, anxious rabbit and master storyteller who makes friends outside her burrow -- even though she was cautioned not to -- and now must decide whether she will remain loyal to her family or help other animals in need." --
19) Saving Sunshine
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Series
Saving Sunshine volume 1
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
J GN FAR
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J GN FAR
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"It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. It's even harder when you're constantly fighting your sibling--and Zara and Zeeshan really can't stand each other. During a family trip to Florida, when the bickering, shoving, and insults reach new heights of chaos, their parents sentence them to the worst possible fate--each other's company! But when the twins find an ailing turtle, it presents a rare...
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Milton Public Library - Vermont Golden Dome Book Award - On Display
LP F BOW
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LP F BOW
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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"Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone...