Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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The one and only Ivan

By Applegate, Katherine

Publishing Date: c2012

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant just added to the mall, he decides he must find her a better life.

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A boy called Bat

By Arnold, Elana K.

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises -- some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he's got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet.

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This book is not good for you

By Bosch, Pseudonymous

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Cass's mom is kidnapped by sinister, blind chocolatier Se©łor Hugo. The ransom? the legendary Tuning Fork.

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This isn't what it looks like

By Bosch, Pseudonymous

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Cass finds herself alone and disoriented in a dream-like world, while back at home she is in the hospital in a coma with Max-Ernest desperately searching for a way to awaken her.

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The Halloween tree

By Bradbury, Ray

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween.

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Talking leaves

By Bruchac, Joseph

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah s new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy, or worse practicing witchcraft. What they don t know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language.

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See you in the cosmos

By Cheng, Jack

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries about his family on a road trip and he records it all on a golden iPod he intends to launch into space"--

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Hazy Bloom and the tomorrow power

By Hamburg, Jennifer

Publishing Date: 2017

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

When third-grader Hazel "Hazy" Bloom begins having visions of trouble that will come within twenty-four hours, she finds that this mysterious power provides her the ability to make things worse.

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Catching a storyfish

By Harrington, Janice N.

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

After moving from Alabama to Illinois, the talkative Keet finds it hard to make friends and stops talking, and no longer feeling like herself, sets out to find her voice.

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Full of beans

By Holm, Jennifer L.

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Grown-ups lie. That s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means locals ) in all of Key West. Not that Beans really minds; it s 1934, the middle of the Great Depression. With no jobs on the island, and no money anywhere, who can really blame the grown-ups for telling a few tales? Besides, Beans isn t anyone s fool. In fact, he has plans. Big plans. And the consequences might surprise even Beans himself.

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Hello, universe

By Kelly, Erin Entrada

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.

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My heart is laughing

By Lagercrantz, Rose

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Dani's been trying her best to stay happy ever since her best friend Ella moved away. But when some girls in Dani's class start being cruel to her, it starts a chain of rather unhappy events... It would all be okay if only Ella would move back.

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When the sea turned to silver

By Lin, Grace

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most exciting tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller.

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The poet's dog

By MacLachlan, Patricia

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.

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Train I ride

By Mosier, Paul

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.

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The best man

By Peck, Richard

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

When Archer is in sixth grade, his beloved uncle Paul marries another man--Archer's favorite student teacher. But that's getting ahead of the story, and a wonderful story it is.

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Going places

By Potter, Ellen

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

Hidden in the fairy hole of the red maple tree are x-ray vision glasses that Piper takes to school to use as her class learns about traveling to China.

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As brave as you

By Reynolds, Jason

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--

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Splendors and glooms

By Schlitz, Laura Amy

Publishing Date: 2012

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.

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Short

By Sloan, Holly Goldberg

Publishing Date: [2017]

Classification: JFIC

Call Number: J

"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"--

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