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Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010, c2008.
Physical Desc
193, 15 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Told through diary entries, twelve-year-old Paloma and her family must navigate changes they cannot control and hope for a better future when United States soldiers invade Spanish controlled Puerto Rico in 1898.
25) Enemies
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
Description
Warlord cat Klawde continues to suffer in exile as Raj faces starting a new school, but a further complication arises when both are unexpectedly confronted by figures from their pasts.
27) Amazona
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Description
Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child-and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family.
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Series
44 Scotland Street volume 16
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As everyone prepares for Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding, the peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is disrupted by the arrival of domineering Irene, while Bruce, after being struck by lightning, prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey, much to his house sitter's delight.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 4
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.
31) Dream country
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
335 pages, 21 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
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A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
33) A House Divided
Author
Series
Family secret (Donna Hill) volume 1
Description
Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal-or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons, and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth.
Journalist Zoie Crawford had to leave New Orleans to finally make her own life. Her grandmother, Claudia, inspired her to follow her dreams-just as her mother, Rose, held on too tight. But with Claudia's passing, Zoie reluctantly...
34) Moondust Lake
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 3
Description
What to do with a life where everything he's worked for is shattered?
A top executive in the family business, Buddy Helms lives and works under the thumb of his powerful father. He's proved himself time and again to the manipulative patriarch-even saving the company from financial ruin. Yet for six years Buddy's waited to hear that he's worthy of his father's love and respect. Now, after another cold dismissal, Buddy's slamming the door on everything...
35) I am helpful
Author
Description
When a little girl gets a new baby sister, she has a lot to adjust to, but by helping her parents she learns that being a big sister comes with big rewards.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1960, twelve-year-old Victoria's family leaves Cuba and seeks refuge in Miami, and when Victoria's best friend and cousin Jackie makes the trip alone, the reunited girls attempt to bring the rest of their family to safety.
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Description
"A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him"--
Ellen is a hypnotherapist who helps clients deal with addictions, phobias and confidence issues. She falls in love with Patrick, who warns her he is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend, Saskia. Ellen finds that she is more intrigued than frightened by this, and in fact, would love to meet her. Saskia, however, has been posing as one of Ellen's clients,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"After a newly divorced mother of two moves to an affluent Atlanta suburb with her children, she becomes involved in the secrets and scandals lurking behind the façades of the seemingly perfect families who live there ... secrets that someone would kill to keep hidden"--
39) Every breath
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A chance encounter in 1990 becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people, including the conflicted surgeon daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father. Spanning two decades, Sparks transports readers to the bush of Zimbabwe and the Carolina coast.
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