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4) Rebound
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from...
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Living in California in 1916, Margaret Singh thinks nothing of the war in Europe or the cause of Indian independence until the United States enters the war, her father is arrested, and her own allegiances are called into question. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
9) When the earth dragon trembled: a story of Chinatown during the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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Han Liu rejects his father's attempts to teach him traditional Chinese values, but when an earthquake and fire strike Chinatown, separating Han from his father, a book of family proverbs is all Han has left to guide him. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, photographs ; 29 cm.
Description
The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
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