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Ember volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
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English
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After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
5) Linked
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Find Your Voice! Students
Jewish American Heritage Month
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Jewish American Heritage Month
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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[2015]
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English
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month
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Black History Month
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
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English
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Dara longs for stardom--but when she isn't cast in her middle school's production of The Sound of Music, she get suspicious. It can't be because she's not the best. She was born to be a famous movie star. It must because she's adopted from Cambodia and doesn't look like a typical fraulein. (That's German for girl.) So irrepressible Dara comes up with a genius plan to shake up the school: write a play about her own life. Then she'll have to be the...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything...
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[2018]
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English
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
WCD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
WCD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
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2002. A year after 9/11, it's an extremely turbulent time politically for Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments, even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Now she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. When she meets Ocean James, he seems...
12) Iggie's house
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When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.
13) Internment
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
14) Abuelita and me
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Kids
OBD Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: Kids
OBD Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
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"In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they even yell. Sad, angry, and scared, the story's young narrator...
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Books with Neurodiverse Characters (SCPL-YS)
Find Your Voice! Students
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Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she is forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs.
16) Maniac Magee
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life--and his name--changes. Maniac Magee appears in Two Mills looking ragged and undernourished, and the kids make fun of him until they see him on the football field. But somehow, despite his own problems, Maniac Magee manages to bring a new direction to everyone he encounters along his path.
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Dottir Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Anti-Racism: Resources for Young People
Children's Staff Picks Anti-Racism Essentials for Kids
Talking with Children About Racism
Children's Staff Picks Anti-Racism Essentials for Kids
Talking with Children About Racism
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A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. “In our family, we don't see color,” his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed."...
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Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
19) Beauty woke
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Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Children's Staff Picks Bicycle
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage 2023
Hispanic Heritage for Kids
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage 2023
Hispanic Heritage for Kids
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Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
20) Flawed
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"If you break the rules, you will be punished. Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister and she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers. She's also a girl of logic. To Celestine, every problem has a solution. Every action is either right, or wrong. Celestine has always known about the Flawed, second-class citizens who are branded as punishment for their crimes. And she always thought they must deserve their punishment....
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