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1) Nightwork
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English
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
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English
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
4) Hi! Fly Guy
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 1
Language
English
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1st Grade Rocks
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Pets
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Pets
Description
When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The Amazing Pet Show, his parents and the judges tell him that a fly cannot be a pet, but Fly Guy proves them wrong.
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
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A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status of one's ancestors dictates their social position, the...
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English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
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English
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5th Grade Rocks
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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5th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Description
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man -- the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the...
13) No, David!
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David (David Shannon) volume 1
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English
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A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
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English
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Alexander Madison is part lawyer, part pastor, and part con artist. When a Muslim imam is accused of instigating honor killings, Alex must decide whether to take the case that every other lawyer in town is running away from. He doesn't realize until it's too late that defending the imam may cost him the one thing in life he cares about most. Fatal Convictions is the story of a lawyer willing to risk it all and the women who must choose between faith...
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English
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Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
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Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
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Description
Celebrates the feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
17) Hoot
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English
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5th Grade Rocks
Earth Day - Tweens
Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Earth Day - Tweens
Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
19) Over the ocean
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English
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A young girl gazes out over the horizon, and wonders what lands lie beyond the ocean, and what the people are like who live in those lands.
20) The hate u give
Author
Series
Carter family volume 2
Language
English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
Staff Picks 2021-2022
YA Staff Picks
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
Staff Picks 2021-2022
YA Staff Picks
Description
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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