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Zoe Washington stories volume 1
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English
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4th Grade Rocks
Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Lone Star List 2022 (Gr. 6-8)
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
Storytime @ Home: Family and Friends
Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
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Ronan Boyle volume 1
Language
English
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Ronan, fifteen, the youngest and lowliest recruit to Ireland's secret Garda, faces untold danger from the wee people while trying to prove his imprisoned parents were framed.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A routine prisoner transfer on a rural highway ends with the bus upside-down in a ravine, the driver dead of a heart attack, and convicted murderer Ernie Luntz on the loose, his eyes fixed on the mountain range in the distance, over which lies his hometown of Ash Falls. Set in a moss-draped, Pacific Northwest mountain town, Ash Falls is the story of a closely connected community both held together and torn apart by one man's single act of horrific...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Caroline Abbott and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner, and when Mama is unable to see him, it is up to Caroline to pass Papa a secret message right under the nose of a British guard.
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