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We’re halfway through National Pizza Month! How much pizza have you eaten so far in celebration? I haven’t eaten NEARLY enough. I also haven’t had my fill of pizza books yet. How about you? Here are some of the latest slices of pizza literature available at Hoover Public Library.
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National Fossil Day is an annual celebration that highlights the scientific and educational value of paleontology and the importance of preserving fossils for future generations. 2021 marks just the 12th year of this holiday, which makes it relatively new. Especially compared to the age of foss
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This empowering (and funny!) middle grade memoir takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where Waka was sent as a child to improve her Japanese and reconnect to her family’s roots.
The musical and natural worlds help a tween understand her family and her personal dynamics in the wake of her brother's disappearance in this stand-out novel-in-verse.
Brian's social anxiety makes him practically disappear at school. It only gets worse when his world is turned upside down and shaken vigorously on his 13th birthday. Can Ezra, a basketball teammate, step up and be the friend Brian needs?...
Westin's ADHD, which he calls his Vacation Brain, makes him do impulsive things. And now it has access to a magic pouch that makes 6-inch alive versions of what is passing through that brain. Which is why his bedroom is now trapping a ti...
In the near future, the ubiquitous alternative reality goggles invented by one Edmund R. Pribble have rendered children’s literature obsolete—except to 10-year-old Oliver Nelson, who copes with poverty and grief by hiding in a nigh-aband...
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