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Darius the Great volume 1
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself."--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she's never met, determined to find her mother--who she believes turned into a bird.
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 26
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Harry thinks of a way to patch up a conflict with his schoolmate Mary and include his friends in a fun detective case with rewards for everyone, including Grandpa.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Language
English
Description
Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
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Language
English
Description
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon.' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions...
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for ages 8 - 12
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Neva and her older brother Clayton have been left with their grandparents for the summer, and she is having a difficult time dealing with change: the changes to her body, changes with her relationships with her brother who is becoming involved with social activism and their multicultural community (and with Michelle, the sexy girl across the street), and with her best friend, Jamila, whose father is from Ghana--Neva is growing up and...
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