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1) Petra
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
"Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain . . . until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg! An egg of the world in a world of possibility. Until she's flung into a pond, and becomes an amazing island . . . and, eventually, a little girl's pet rock. What will she be tomorrow? Who knows? But she's a rock, and this is how she rolls!"--Amazon.com.
Petra is trying...
2) Quackers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Quackers has always believed that he is a duck, but when he meets new friends who look like him and call themselves cats, he has to find a way to combine the best of both worlds"--
Author
Formats
Description
How do we raise the next generation to respect and learn from people who look or believe differently than they do? From two educators who are also moms comes a guide to help parents and other teachers navigate conversations about all kinds of diversity. This practical resource includes activities to build compassion and empathy among differing religions, classes, races, genders, abilities, political affiliations, sexual orientations, nationalities,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby set off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.
7) Identity
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 279 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Series about an elite police team charged with investigating the high-stakes world of identity theft. Realistic plots and intelligent writing offer a riveting glimpse into one of the 21st century's most ubiquitous crimes.
Author
Series
Stella Montgomery intrigue volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
281 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
The Aunts have sent eleven-year-old Stella away to the moldering old family estate, Wormwood Mire, where she discovers two odd cousins and more clues to the mysteries of her family and of herself.
Author
Description
I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When Starflight is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Leila and the other Magic Misfits have the opportunity to perform with a famous stage psychic known as Madame Esmeralda, who may hold secrets to Leila's past.
14) The name jar
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds,...
17) Odder
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Appears on list
Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spending time with a good friend. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face to face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself-and about the humans who hope to save her. [This story is i]nspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
194 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Selina Kyle es más valiente de lo que cree. Durante 15 años, ha soportado a todos los malos novios que ha tenido su madre, pero cuando Dernell, la pareja actual de su mamá, resulta ser más cruel quel los otro, Selina reevalúa su lugar en el núcleo familiar. No hay mander de que Selina y Dernell puedan vivir bajo el mismo techo, y puesto que Dernell no se irá, Selina debe hacerlo.
20) Deephaven
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
From Ethan M. Aldridge, bestselling creator of Estranged , comes a gothic middle grade prose novel that follows a nonbinary student who is drawn to their boarding school’s forbidden east wing, where something stalks the shadowy corridors. Perfect for fans of J. A. White and Mary Downing Hahn! When Guinevere "Nev" Tallow receives an acceptance letter to the exclusive Deephaven Academy, they know it’s the fresh start that they’ve...
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