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"When the strange new girl at her high school takes her to a place underneath the subways of New York, where people like them can go and find a home, Harriet Adu, who is riddled with guilt over her brother's death, gets a second chance at being a better person"-- Provided by publisher
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
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Series
Barely missing everything volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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311 pages ; 24 cm.
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After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
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Sadiq volume 16
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His school is starting a newspaper club, and Sadiq wants to be a reporter--but he is troubled because the editor-in-chief, Katy, seems more intent on embarrassing people with gossip than in reporting actual news stories.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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272 pages ; 21 cm
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Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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As they celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the kids in Mrs. Connor's class share their hopes and dreams and imagine how to make the world a better place to honor the important holiday.
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.
13) Hoggy at bat
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Penguin Distribution Childrens
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Now that this former ball hog has learned to be a team player, Hoggy's friends think he's a real catch. But Hoggy feels more at home on the basketball court than he does on the baseball diamond. He wants to hit the ball so flawlessly that it soars over the fence. Instead, it's a swing and a miss. When Hoggy strikes out, the pressure is on. Can he learn to relax and enjoy a fun game with his friends? Or will the pressure to win keep him from stepping...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A mindful, gentle picture book about patience and learning to find beauty in the act of waiting. Sometimes, you have to wait. For the line at the public pool on a hot summer day. For mom to come home after being away. For your legs to grow just a bit longer to ride a new big kid bike. The seconds drag on... each one feels like forever. Why can't you have it now? But while you wait, you might notice things: a possible new friend who is also in...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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xi, 451 pages ; 25 cm
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"From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives . . . Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork...
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Other Press
Pub. Date
2023
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475 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 2018, Di�egane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the 'Black Rimbaud,' after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Di�egane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust. Alongside...
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
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Juan tiene grandes planes. Va a ser el muchacho de El Paso que salio adelante, va a conseguir esa beca de basquetbol para ir a la universidad y va hacer algo de su vida... algo mejor que la sarta de novios nefastos de Fabi, su mama. Solo necesita hacerlo realidad. El mejor amigo de Juan, JD, tambien tiene planes. Algun dia va a ser cineasta, como Tarantino o Del Toro (no Spielberg). Tiene una camara y tiene pasion. Que mas se necesita? Fabi ya no...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xi, 260 pages ; 22 cm.
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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel’s first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde’s editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find “offensive”—especially...
20) I help
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"When a boy finds a canteen in his garage, he finds his superpower--helping everyone, from the postman to the local birds"--
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