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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views...
Author
Publisher
FT Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xx, 201 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Happiness and success start with becoming clear about who are you are, and establishing your authentic identity, inside yourself, and then beyond yourself. Graham shows you who it's so hard to know yourself, and how to do it anyway.
3) Unlocked
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, the story picks up right from Legacy's particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe's perspectives to give readers deeper insights into both beloved characters. New powers will be discovered. Hard truths from the past will come to light. And all of your favorite characters will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined"--
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Formats
Description
Nubia has always stood out because of her Amazonian strength, but even though she uses her ability for good she is seen as a threat, so when her best friend Quisha is threatened by a boy who thinks he owns the town, Nubia risks everything to become the hero society tells her she is not.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Monster Mo's big, beautiful mustache inspires all of his friends to copy his style by growing fabulous mustaches of their own, leaving Mo to wonder how he will continue to distinguish himself.
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Description
The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring.
7) What I am
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A young narrator describes herself as many things at the same time - a girl, a granddaughter, Indian, American, both selfish and generous, mean and kind - and these seeming contradictions are precisely what makes her a unique individual.
Author
Series
Bromance book club volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A hacktivist and a cat cafe|| owner decode the friend zone in this romantic comedy from the author of Undercover Bromance. Alexis Carlisle and her cat cafe||, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef's sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they're sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts-her best...
10) Why am I me?
Author
Formats
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
11) If I were a dog
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A young girl considers how some aspects of her life would be different if she were dog and how other would remain the same.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 63 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, zThe January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.y What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in ones own land.
13) The magic fish
Author
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
14) The spin
Author
Series
Marcus stroman volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
In this second book in the semi-autobiographical middle grade series from MLB pitcher Marcus Stroman, young Marcus continues to learn hard lessons on and off the baseball field.
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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.
16) Ghost and bone
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Oscar Grimstone is cursed with killing things at a touch, and can also transform into a ghost, but a journey to the city of ghosts may lead him to discover his true identity.
Author
Series
Me vs. the multiverse volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Meade Macon attends Me Con, a convention where he meets different versions of himself from across the multiverse"--
18) Stain
Author
Description
Lyra, the silent princess of daylight, must find a way to make noise and pass a series of tests to stop a pretender from stealing her betrothed prince and crown.
19) Muchas veces yo
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
A girl contemplates the many different roles she plays in her family and community, including daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, student, patient, and friend. Includes suggested learning activities.
20) 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...
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