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Series
Unusual chickens volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, relates her adventures as two new unusual chickens come to the farm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated South and a 'white' mother from the West, spent his whole...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future―the majority-minority narrative―which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals that this narrative obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist. Bobby's disparate worlds crash...
88) Court of Fives
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
Author
Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Keisha and her family's animal rescue center face more challenges involving a baby crow in a mailbox and a skunk found in the nearby community garden.
Author
Series
Infinity courts volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Author
Series
Goldie Vance novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In early 1960s Florida, sixteen-year-old Goldie, an aspiring detective at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel, investigates magic gone awry at the Crossed Palm's League of Magical Arts Convention.
92) Kamala Harris
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English
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Looks at United States lawyer, senator, and vice-president Kamala Harris. As a child, little Kamala marched for civil rights with her parents. She was encouraged to fight for justice and to make a difference in the world. From her career as a lawyer, to her time spent as a US senator, to her historic election to the White House as Vice President, Kamala has lived a life of firsts. But, she is determined that she won't be the last. This inspiring story...
93) Love by Sophia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Dyslexia Awareness Month Youth
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Dyslexia Awareness Month Youth
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
98) Starfish
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
99) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Carter family's Halloween preparations are complicated by a deer with a pumpkin stuck on its head and a puppy that is part dog, part coyote.
Author
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
Description
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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