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Author
Series
Serafina (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Children's New Books: May 2023 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 7th & 8th Grades
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admission are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.
404) Skip!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: January 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 5th & 6th Grades
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Description
"Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic--and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. But Jay's friendship with their new bestie Beah is intense, both in and out of Double Dutch. As Beah and Jay help each other grow into the people they will become, it challenges their friendship and their own identities."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a humorous, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, the author shares how her preoccupation with the British-born actor helped her feel passionate about something at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Honor for Latino Literature
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
407) White girls
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls," as Als dubs them--an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O'Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
409) Huda F are you?
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
410) Sail me away home
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan...
411) El atlas esmeralda
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Espaǫl
Pub. Date
2012, ♭2011
Language
Español
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Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Tres niǫs. Dos mundos. Una profeca̕. Kate es la mayor y ms̀ responsable. A sus 14 aǫs es la n͠ica que recuerda a sus padres, especialmente las l͠timas palabras de su madre pidiňdole...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From PEN/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle or The Tender Bar, the true story of a boy's turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her...
413) Identity
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A novel on a woman who suffers from lack of male attention. On receiving letters from an anonymous admirer, she attributes them to various individuals and fantasizes romances with them.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
415) The box turtle
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Terrance the turtle was born without a shell, so he uses a cardboard box instead. Terrance loves his box. It keeps him dry on soggy days, safe from snooping strangers, and is big enough to cozy up with a friend. But when another turtle points out that Terrance's shell is, well, weird, he begins to wonder whether there might be a better shell out there..."--
416) Big
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
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Description
"Once there was a girl. She had a big heart and very big dreams. And it was good. Until it wasn't. The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out...
418) Toasty
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Toasty, a piece of toast, believes he is a dog deep down in his crumbs, but realizes he is very different from all the other dogs.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A searing debut novel from one of the most imaginative minds in fiction Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under tells the story of Rio Silvestri, who, when she was twelve years old, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio, born Chizuru Akitani, is the Japanese American daughter of the revered violinist Hiro Akitani--a Living National Treasure in Japan and a man Rio hasn't spoken to since she left her home country for the United States (and a new identity) after her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Description
After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
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