Bent Northrop Memorial Library

Tilly the turtle lives in a tank with a pond and big rocks in her best friend Todd's bedroom. Tilly loves to keep warm under her heat lamp! Todd likes to watch her swim and they sometimes play hide and seek together. The fun illustrations and corresponding text will inspire a love of reading in emerging readers and is a perfect foundational book for children who haven't yet started reading. This tale of friendship promotes the proper way young

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Fourteen-year-old Winnie counts down the days until she begins high school, but turmoil in her relationships with Lars, Dinah, Cinnamon, and her family provide Winnie with a distraction that allows her to ignore her own issues.

Franklin the turtle learns that how big you are does not have anything to do with how you feel when he is assigned to be a buddy to Moose, a frightened new student at school.

"A story of friendship and courage during World War I"-- "As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy. But when World War I begins, it launches the world, and Henry, into turmoil. While facing enemy fire at Gallipoli, Henry discovers the strength he needs to survive in an unexpected source: a tortoise. And so begins the friendship of a lifetime. Based...

A serious craving for potato chips has landed RJ the raccoon in some grizzly bear-sized trouble after he found and ate the pile of food belonging to the mean sleeping bear. Now he has one week to replace the food or else he'll be the big bears next meal. Luckily Verne the turtle and his new friends from the forest are willing to help.