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1) Shi-shi-etko
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English
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Shi-shi-etko is leaving in four days to attend the residential school which is a school where native children were sent to learn English and learn about European culture and religion. She spends the last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world and listening to her mother, father and grandmother share valuable teachings that they want her to remember.
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English
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Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Native American Heritage Month - Children
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"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away"--
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Pennyroyal Academy volume 1
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English
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"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
6) Ruby's wish
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Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
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Candy apple books. Main series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Taryn and Jeff have been next-door neighbors and friends all of their lives but when they enter sixth grade, everything changes.
9) Ivy + Bean
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English
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When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
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Pennyroyal Academy volume 2
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English
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Becoming famous as a result of her defeat of the witches, Princess Cadet Evie returns to Pennyroyal Academy where she is threatened by a secret society that is hatching an evil plan against the school that involves someone close to her.
13) Rites of passage
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2014.
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend the revered Denmark Military Academy means living with a target on her back"--
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 6
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English
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Flora, Nikki, and Olivia are moving up from elementary school to 7th grade in Central School. As the youngest girl in the whole school, Olivia realizes she has to grow up fast or get left behind.
16) Twoo Twit
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Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Twoo Twit the owl is the laughingstock of the forest for his unowl-like stupidity, but he learns a lesson about skipping school when he can't read the sign announcing the bell-ringing contest and hangs from the church bell.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
Description
In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.
19) The lucky star
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English
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In 1933, facing the hardships of the Great Depression, Ruth learns to follow her mother's example and count her lucky stars when she turns her disappointment over not being able to attend fourth grade into a blessing for her younger sister.
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Mallory McDonald books volume 10
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mallory enters fourth grade with high hopes for her best year ever, but instead she starts by breaking the teacher's rules and then feels left out when her best friend likes the same boy she does.
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