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10581) Take me to Lăolao
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her beloved lăolao can't attend the Spring Lantern Festival, Lili is taken on a Chinese mythology-inspired adventure as she drifts off to sleep, where she finally gets to see the one person she wants to see most"--
10583) La luna mango
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Cuando un padre es apartado de su familia y enfrenta la deportación, su familia se queda sufriendo con el duelo y deseando saber qué sucederá después. Maricela, Manuel y su madre enfrentan los muchos desafÃos al tener que su vida es cambiada completamente por la ausencia de su padre y su esposo. Mudarse a una casa nueva, juegos de fútbol perdidos, fiestas de cumpleaños, y el vacÃo son ahora la norma del dÃa a dÃa. La Luna Mango muestra cómo...
10584) Tiffany Sly lives here now
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things,...
10585) Trapped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
77 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--
10586) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States. Now Sara is being held...
10587) Little Night =: Nochecita
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
10588) Armstrong & Charlie
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
10589) The bad kid
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, eleven-year-old Claudeline Feng LeBernardin hopes to take over the "family business" previously run by her mobster grandfather, but first she must try to uncover a local scam artist and salvage her friendship with her best friend and partner in crime, Fingerless Brett.
10590) 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."...
10591) 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....
10592) Mystery on Museum Mile
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case"--
10593) Stolen words
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks...
10594) Every shiny thing
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.
Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother Ryan, are on the autism spectrum. When Lauren recruits Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, Sierra knows she has more to lose than her friend....
10595) Apple in the middle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, many teenagers channeled their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. This collection of essays address the events of February 14, 2018, and continues the ongoing fight to end gun violence in the United States. -- adapted from back cover.
Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders....
10597) Chemistry lessons
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Maya, soon to be an MIT student, continues her deceased mother's work on pheromones and attraction, using a stranger, a platonic friend, and her ex-boyfriend as subjects.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque and Aiden is the son of a fisherman with access to his father's dory-- his parents forbid him to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out...
10599) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
10600) The year the maps changed
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
351 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1999 Sorrento, Victoria, twelve-year-old Winifred (Fred) grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town.
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