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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...
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
3) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
5) There there
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Appears on list
Description
"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...
6) Tomboy
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be Michael, a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In a world where everyone knows the day they will die, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life. If he knew what was in store for his last day, he probably wouldn't be so calm. First hangover. First sex. First love triangle. When Denton discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body, and then a strange man shows up claiming to have known his long-deceased mother, Denton's life is filled with mysterious questions... and precious little...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Description
Payden has always used he/him pronouns, until one day Payden realizes those words might not fit. Payden's parents promise to throw a big party to introduce whatever pronouns Payden chooses--but which pronouns are the best match? On a colorful quest, Payden talks to friends about a rainbow of possibilities: he, she, they, ze, and so many more! The right pronouns are just waiting to be tried on.
9) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 23 cm.
10) 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
Series
Buddy files volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
While attending obedience class with his new humans, Buddy the dog helps solve a mystery involving two Pomeranians that were switched at the dog park.
13) Identity thief
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
14) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered, fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When twelve-year-old Ariel and her friend Zeke find a mysterious artifact which has not been seen in a long time, it proves to be the beginning of a long and arduous journey that will untimately reveal to them their true identities.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Zee, whom everyone assumes is a lesbian, and Art, who everyone assumes is gay, form a complicated relationship in which they explore their sexuality and their own sense of personal identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr. 21 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working for an answering service to support herself while searching for her long-lost siblings, separated after the disappearance of her parents, Hope Prescott finds herself falling for wealthy businessman Zachariah Givens after she mistakes him for a butler.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia-and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair...
20) Family tree
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
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