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Share A Book - 18 Months - 2 Years |
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A Book
Suggestions for Parents of Preschool Children:
Ages 18 months - 2 years
Click on the book cover to go to the Library's
catalog and check availability or to place a hold. Use the back button to
return to this list.
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All By Myself!
Aliki
A child shows all the things he has learned to do all on his own. |
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Quiet in the Garden
Aliki
Sitting quietly in his garden, a little boy observes the eating habits of birds, bugs, butterflies, and other small animals. Includes instructions on how to make your own garden and a detailed illustration of plants typically found in a garden.
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Raisin
Rodriguez and the Big-Time Smooch: A Novel
Judy Goldschmidt
Still corresponding through her blog with her friends who live
across the country, thirteen-year-old Raisin records her hopes and
worries as she tries to obtain her first kiss from the long-lashed
and cinnamon-scented CJ Mullen.
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Runaround
Helen
Hemphill
In
Kentucky
in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for
publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the
handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has
to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he
does.
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Lily
B. on the Brink of Love
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Aspiring author and eight-grader Lily Blennerhassett hones her
writing skills as her school newspaper's advice columnist while also
trying to get her first crush, The Boy, to notice her.
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The
Wedding Planner's Daughter
Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband
for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.
Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a
cherry-cordial eater, and quite possibly the world's worst wisher.
But when she and her glamorous single mother, Stella, move to
Bramble, Cape Cod, Willa's wishes begin to come true. Before Willa
can marry off her mother, or dance with her adorable crush, Joseph,
a pit gets stuck in the wishing well. Lots of humor, hope, and lots
of love in one hopelessly romantic modern fairy tale! |
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Amelia's
Itchy-Twitchy, Lovey-Dovey Summer at Camp
Mariss Moss
Despite the hard
mattresses, biting bugs, and exhausting hikes, Amelia finally begins
to enjoy her time at sleepaway camp with the help of her new
friends, but when she gets her first serious crush on a boy named
Luke, Amelia is stunned to find out that Carly likes him too and so
must find a way to win his heart without losing her newest best
friend.
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Prince
William, Maximillian Minsky and Me
Holly-Jane Rahlens
In Berlin, thirteen-year-old Nelly Sue Edelmeister--a self-described
nerd and aspiring astronomer--gains a greater understanding of
herself and those around her as she develops her first crush,
considers whether to go through with her bat mitzvah, and tries out
for the basketball team. |
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Love,
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Still moping months after
being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old
Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's
longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in
Pennsylvania.
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Emma-Jean
Lazarus Fell in Love
Lauren Tarshis
Seventh-grader Emma-Jean
Lazarus uses her logical, scientific mind to navigate the mysteries
of the upcoming Spring Fling, her friend Colleen's secret admirer,
and other love-related dilemmas.
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So
Totally Emily Ebers
Lisa Yee
In a series of letters to her
absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving
cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first
serious crush. |
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FOR GRADES 7
and older |
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I'd
Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Ally Carter
As a sophomore at a secret
spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is
sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a
local boy while on a class surveillance mission. Spy fiction with
broad stroke of humor and improbablility.
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The
Kissing Diary
Judith Caseley
As thirteen-year-old Rosie Goldglitt
contemplates kissing the boy she has a crush on, she tries to
navigate the many complications in her life, including her horrible
name, her nemesis Mary Katz, her parents' divorce, and her mother's
new boyfriend.
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The
One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California:
A Novel
Mary Hershey
Alastair, a thirteen-year-old who calls
himself "Stump" because of his amputated leg, must face a
summer at his wealthy but estranged father's beach house in Los
Angeles, where he meets his stepmother, falls in love with a
teenaged soap opera star, and decides to train for a race with a
former Olympic swim coach.
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Falconer's
Knot: A Story of Firars, Flirtation and Foul Play
Mary Hoffman
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in
a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one
another and dream of a future together, but when murders are
committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes
before they can realize their love. |
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Keturah
and Lord Death
Martine Leavitt
When Lord Death comes to claim
sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she
charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve
in which to seek her one true love.
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EVER
Gail Carson Levine
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in
love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte
god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of
quests that might make her immortal.
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The
Smile
Donna Jo Napoli
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for
romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de
Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she
has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue. |
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A Pearl Among Princes
Coleen Murtagh Paratore
As her sixteenth birthday
approaches, Gracepearl feels her deceased mother guiding her toward
a decision between life on a remote, agrarian island with her
childhood love, or somewhere far away with a young man in training
to be a prince.
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Accidental
Love
Gary Soto
After unexpectedly falling in
love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to
change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of
her behavior, and losing weight. |
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