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10141) Coretta Scott King
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King is known for being the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but she was a civil rights activist and leader in her own right! She was a singer and an author too, and her work made a difference for Black Americans and for all women for decades to come"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In August 1914, Russia entered World War I, and with it, the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict they would not survive. His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was ten years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a grand duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917. Held at...
10143) Now is everything
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The McCauleys look perfect on the outside, but this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. When Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates. An explosive accident occurs, following which Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital. Her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris's round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. At the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor's life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. This is a stirring and radiantly written examination of...
10146) When impossible happens
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"During the pandemic lockdown in India, almost-nine-year-old Swara's irrepressible spirit helps her come to terms with the death of her grandmother and solve a neighborhood mystery"--
10147) Cheer up, Ben Franklin!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Franklin is sad. No one has time to fly kites with him today. Betsy Ross is busy sewing a flag. Alexander Hamilton is busy counting money... Will things change for Ben when he reaches Independence Hall? The first volume of this new board-book series takes a tongue-in-cheek look at American history to introduce the youngest historians to some of the most prominent characters during our nation's exciting beginning. Readers will love the amusing...
10148) Imagina
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
¿Alguna vez has imaginado quién serás cuando crezcas? Cuando Juan Felipe Herrera era niño, recogió flores, audó a su mamá a alimentar a los pollitos, durmió bajo el cielo centelleante y aprendió a decirles adiós a sus amiguitos cada vez que su familia seguÃa el camino campesino. Al crecer, Juan Felipe Herrera se convirtió en poeta. Su hermoso poema, "Imagina" y las sugerentes ilustraciones de Lauren Castillo le hablarán a cada lector...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 296 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution"--
"The story of the Boston Massacre-- when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death-- is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Historian Serena Zabin weaves colorful stories...
10150) The Schuyler sisters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Hamilton knew and loved them as his "dear brunettes." Others remember them simply as the Schuyler sisters. Eliza and Angelica are often footnotes in Hamilton's story. But they both deserve their own attention. Bold and smart, they were champions of charities. And they were fierce supporters of the people they loved most. Read and discover their captivating stories."--Provided by publisher.
10151) Think black: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--
"In 1946, John Stanley Ford was hired as the IBM's firs black software engineer. But many of the company's white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit, recognizing that he had an obligation to his race as a "first."...
10152) Home and away
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tasia is a senior with great friends and a supportive family, and she even plays football as the only girl on her private high school's team. A mystery surrounding her mother makes Tasia wonder about her identity. She tries to unravel the lies that have taken over her life.
Tasia Quirk is young, Black, a senior, she's got great friends, and a supportive and wealthy family. She even plays football as the only girl on her private high school's team....
10154) Just under the clouds
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since her father's death, Cora, twelve, longs for a permanent home for herself, her special-needs sister, and their mother while navigating middle school and studying trees using her father's field notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
10157) The shards of heaven
Author
Series
Shards of heaven volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a...
10158) Mistwalker
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Forbidden to set foot on her family's lobster boat after her brother's death, sixteen-year-old Willa will do anything to help her grieving, financially-troubled family, even turn to the weird Grey Man who haunts the lighthouse near her small Maine village.
10159) Coretta Scott King
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simple biography for young readers about Coretta Scott King.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
134 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of the author's biological mother and aunt, this middle-grade novel traces the long and frightening journey of two Kaska Dena sisters as they are taken from their home to attend residential school. When Maddy discovers an old photograph of two little girls in her grandmother's belongings, she wants to know who they are. Nan reluctantly agrees to tell her the story, though she is unsure if Maddy is ready to hear it. The girls...
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