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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.
41562) Apple in the middle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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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...
41563) Once in a blue moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Paralyzed by guilt, eleven-year-old John Henry must come to terms with the events surrounding his Ma's near drowning and with the help of his twin sister Hattie, learn to embrace life again.
41564) Serafina y la capa negra
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore Estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
"Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse mas alla de los confines de la mansion donde se esconden. Hay much que explorar en sus sombrios pasillos, aunque tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean. Pero cuando...
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Simon joins the basketball team, he is excited to be a part of a neighborhood tradition, but after some of his teammates leave for a better team, he decides to organize a pep rally to help Creighton Park and the community feel like they are part of something special.
41566) 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,...
41567) Roberta
Series
Astaire and Rogers collection volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fun's in fashion when Fred and Ginger enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like "Smoke gets in your eyes" and "I won't dance."
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of W.W. Law, an NAACP activist, whose efforts to register black voters, and lead a successful business boycott resulted in Savannah, Georgia being the first city in the south to end racial discrimination.
41570) Sparrow
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident, Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
41571) The closest I've come
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Marcos Rivas is desperate to escape the projects, his neglectful mother, and her abusive boyfriend, but when he is picked for a class at his high school targeting smart students who are underperforming, he initially resists.
41572) Doodles from the Boogie Down
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young Dominican girl navigates middle school, her strict mother, shifting friendships, and her dream of being an artist"--
41573) Harlem's little blackbird
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A tribute to lesser-known Harlem Renaissance performer Florence Mills includes coverage of her youth as a child of former slaves, her singing and dancing performances that inspired songs and entire plays, and the struggles with racism that prompted her advocacy of all-black theater and musicals.
41574) 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.
41575) The turning pointe
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1980s Minnesota, when auditions for a concert with Prince are announced, 16-year-old Rosa Dominguez, the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, is desperate to escape her pointe shoes and show everyone what she can do"--
As the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, Rosa Dominguez seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself,...
41576) Imagining Ichabod: my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
41577) Thunderball
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action. Sean Connery brings his characteristic style and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down a villainous criminal who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xix, 404 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"[Katrina] completely transformed one of the most beloved cities in America, leaving nearly 80 percent of New Orleans flooded and damaging 134,000 housing units, causing unprecedented destruction. The response to Katrina is a topic of unending debate and anger ... Watching coverage of the hurricane on television in 2005 ... Roberta Brandes Gratz knew that the best chance for the city's recovery came from the people who would return to New Orleans....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The co-founder of the diversity nonprofit Project Include shares the story behind her landmark 2015 lawsuit against powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins, exploring what her case and refusal to settle revealed about Silicon Valley discrimination.
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