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11061) Bridge of Clay: [CD]
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The five Dunbar brothers bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. But as they learn to reckon with the adult world, they too learn the secret behind their father's disappearance.
11064) See the ocean
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with...
11068) My sister, the cat: 3
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In this loving family of cats and human Nekota-kun, will the brother and sister be able to foster an important family bond and overcome the difference between the human race and cat race together?"--Provided by publisher.
11069) Andromeda Klein
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause--despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss--until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom Iris dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover...
11071) Refugee: [spoken CD]
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
This book is the culmination of over twenty years of research. Gathered from museums, public archives, and private families is the history of the spectacularly scenic region, the local traders, and the notable weaving families. It is intertwined with information acquired during thousands of interviews with the region's weavers. The book illustrates the lineage of the local weaving tradition that has passed from grandmothers to mothers, and mothers...
11074) Meet Yasmin
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Meet Yasmin! Yasmin is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems. Taking inspiration from her surroundings and her big imagination, she boldly faces any situation, assuming her imagination doesn't get too big, of course! A creative thinker and curious explorer, Yasmin and her multi-generational Pakistani American family will delight and inspire readers
11075) The girl from déjà vu: 01
Author
Series
Nightmare Brigade volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Welcome to your nightmares. 14 year-olds Esteban and Tristan have a special after-school job. They enter Tristan's father's Sleep Clinic where they have one goal: help people get rid of their worst nightmares. With unique equipment the Nightmare Brigade can literally infiltrate their patients' nightmare to seek its root and destroy the cause. Things are shaken up a bit, however, when they meet the young sleep study patient Sarah. Esteban thinks he...
11076) Yotsuba&!: #10
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Yotsuba loves playing games and she is good at it. Daddy's opinion is that Yotsuba makes the rules as they play along, but she thinks that he is a sore loser. But maybe Yotsuba will let him win once in a while.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From New York Times bestselling illustrator Christine Davenier and bestselling author Amy E. Sklansky comes this utterly charming, silly, and irresistible read-aloud that sends the little piggies from everyone's favorite nursery rhyme off to the beach. Following the rhythm of rhyme scheme of the original rhyme (This little piggy went to market..), young children get to follow along as the five piggies pack the car, arrive at the beach, build a sand...
11079) Where the stars still shine
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is finally arrested and she is returned to her father in small-town Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind, become part of a family again, and learn that love is more than just a possibility.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...