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21) Now
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Follow a little girl as she takes you on a tour through all of her favorite things, from the holes she digs to the hugs she gives"--
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Series
House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On a quest to become someone's favorite Ali-O'Connor, ten-year-old middle child Marina enlists Boom, her new neighbor, to help make a documentary about her, but when things do not go according to plan, Marina begins to wonder if she will ever feel like she belongs.
24) Booked
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Description
Nick Hall is the star player on the soccer team until a bombshell announcement shatters his world.
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
26) Front desk
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Series
Front desk volume 1
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
27) Efrén divided
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Pub. Date
2020.
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While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 20 cm
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Arturo's Miami summer is marked by the arrival of poetry enthusiast Carmen, who helps him use the power of protest to fight the plans of a land developer who wants to demolish his Abuela's restaurant.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
Celebrating all the beautiful browns in one child’s colorful family Mama’s brown is chocolate, clear, dark, and sweet. Daddy’s brown is autumn leaf, or like a field of wheat. Granny’s brown is like honey, and Papa’s like caramel. In this loving and lovely ode to the color brown, a boy describes the many beautiful hues of his family, including his own—gingerbread.
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Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Description
"When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
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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.
34) Remember me gone
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
362 pages
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lucy Miller's family has been erasing people's heartaches and tragic memories for decades, but after an encounter with Marco Warman--a local boy Lucy has always wondered about and who seems to know more than he should--Lucy begins to question her family's legacy and her role in it.
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 7
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Amidst the anticipation of Mr. B and Aunt Penny's wedding, the Vanderbeekers' lives take an unexpected turn as Laney receives a dire diagnosis, leading them to the hospital where, despite their own challenges, they form a bond with a critically ill new friend in need of their support.
38) Gator dad
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
"From seemingly mundane tasks such as grocery shopping to more active pursuits like a romp at the park and fort-building, a loving and playful father alligator shows his gator kids that the simplest pleasures done together can make for an incredibly fun day"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning middle grade bestseller! Basketball and heartache share the court in this slam-dunk novel in verse.Streaming series coming soon on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James!
40) My good morning!
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
Two sleepy parents attempt to supervise a small girl as she gets ready for school and insists she can do everything herself.
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