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1) Swing
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Description
As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time.
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Series
Upside-down magic volume 7
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
7) Shell quest
Author
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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Publisher
Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.
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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.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
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Series
Witches of Peculiar volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
When the students of Y.I.K.E.S.S.S. are invited to attend the Peculiar Public School fall dance, Bella and Dee Maleficent are excited to attend a human function with their friends. The only problem is that the Y.I.K.E.S.S.S. students will need to be on their best behavior—and refrain from performing any magic or other acts of the supernatural around the humans. Which could be a problem for our twin witches who don’t quite have a handle on their...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Otto is an ornament. He’s glittery, he’s colorful, he’s full of Christmas pizzazz! Otto wants to be at the top of the tree, not in the middle with all of the regular ornaments! Doesn’t he deserve to shine at the top? Will Otto be able to find the tree he dreams of and learn about kindness and chosen family along the way?" --publisher's website.
13) Wave
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Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in—her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother’s footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix’s past lymphoma surges back, not even surfing, singing, or poetry can keep...
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Walter had spent all summer counting down the days to the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes everything. Walter realizes there is one BIG difference between him and his shark classmates. After his discovery, Walter spends his day trying anything he can think of to blend in with the other sharks, only to learn that the...
Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
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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
Description
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.
19) Trevor
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Trevor is lonely and looking for a friend. He stretches his wings the length of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Perhaps a new friend. But one that is quiet and shy. Trevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable.Trevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable. This is an elegantly told, truly unique tale of a canary who befriends a lemon and finds that you don't have to be two...
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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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