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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
color illustrations ; 26 cm
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A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
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Publisher
Vergara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
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La actual crisis de desconexión nos obliga a plantearnos la pertenencia a nuestra comunidad, empresa, cultura. La verdadera pertenencia no nos pide que cambiemos; nos exige que seamos quienes somos. Brené Brown, famosa por profundizar en las experiencias que dan sentido a la vida, como el coraje, la vulnerabilidad, el amor, la vergüenza y la empatía, se adentra ahora en el debate sobre la pertenencia. En Desafiando la tierra salvaje, Brown redefine...
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Series
Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
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Series
Upside-down magic volume 7
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When a flood forces Nory and her best friends to evacuate Dunwiddle and relocate to prestigious Sage Academy, the upside-down magic students have a hard time fitting in.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 22 cm
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Hatched from an egg and raised by a loving family, ten-year-old Nashville is more bird than human except for his lack of wings, but he and his classmates learn that differences need not keep them apart.
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Publisher
IVP Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
182 pages.
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"While many faith-based organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership, they still fail to embody a culture that invites and celebrates gender equity. Offering practical steps for leadership teams, board members, and managers, Beth Birmingham and Eeva Simard identify organizational changes that will create a belonging culture"--
8) Shell quest
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Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"When a little slug finds new friends in the backyard, she notices they look a lot like her...except they have shells! Maybe a shell is exactly what she needs to fit in--but finding one is a lot harder than it sounds!"--
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Series
Song below water volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
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Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her priviledge, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
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Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and identity.
12) I am loved
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Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Pakak is in a new foster home, with new people, new food, and new smells. Feeling alone and uncertain, Pakak finds comfort in a secret shared with him by his anaanattiaq, his grandmother, and in the knowledge that he is loved no matter how far away his family may be. Written by foster parents Mary and Kevin Qamaniq-Mason as a gift for Inuit children in care, this book is lovingly imbued with cultural familiarities that will resonate with children...
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
There are many watchers and they are always white. That’s the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite graduating high school in Cleveland as valedictorian, Echo immediately struggles to keep up in demanding classes. Dartmouth made many promises it couldn't keep. The campus is not a rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice. Nor is it a paradise of ideas, an incubator of inclusivity, or even an exciting...
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Series
Monster who wasn't trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
Description
Imp, hatched in the underground monsters lair looking like a human boy, does not know where he fits, but Thunderguts, king of the ogres, has a dangerous destiny in mind for him.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As Tsh Oxenreider chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore....
19) Pie in the Sky
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
20) Cazadora
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Tras los hechos acontecidos en Lobizona, Manu y sus amigos cruzan la mística frontera hacia Kerana, un reino maldito en Argentina, en busca de aliados y de un sitio donde esconderse. Mientras intentan descubrir el paradero del Aquelarre (una mítica manada de la resistencia que quizás ni siquiera existe), los Cazadores siguen los pasos de Manu, poniendo trampas para capturarla y arrestarla. Pero cuando parece que ya la tienen acorralada, el Aquelarre...
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