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221) Wide awake
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when a gay Jewish man is elected president of the United States, sixteen-year-old Duncan examines his feelings for his boyfriend, his political and religious beliefs, and tries to determine his rightful place in the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
223) Factory girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In order to save her family's farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people"--
225) Edenville Owls
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
226) The cholo tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.
227) Torchlight
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts. Based on historical events.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
No one knows why the crocodiles have come to Dullsville. They look different. They act differently. And worst of all? They love messy, sticky, colourful ice cream. Yuck! But one little boy knows differently, and when two naughty thieves arrive in Dullsville one night, the whole town sees how much Dullsville needs its two brave and loyal crocs ...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ten year old Avery is in a panic over the shooting of another unarmed black man. His parents decide it is time to have "The Talk." They teach him and his brother a catchy and easy way to remember what to do if approached by an officer, while also empasizing that all policemen are not bad."--Page 4 of cover.
231) Brotherhood
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's a perfect day for the beach. Mrs. Duck-billed Platypus, her children, and her egg set off for an outing by the sea. But the first beach does not allow animals with beaks. The next does not permit animals with fur. The platypus family is turned away again and again. On their journey, the platypuses meet many other animals in the same situation. Does Mrs. Duck-billed Platypus save the day for herself, her children, and the other animals? This witty...
233) Spotty
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Having been excluded from a party because his spots make him different, Spotty the bunny runs away from home.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Ya queda poco para Haloween y es el momento de elegir calabaza. Las calabazas, con sus terrorificos dientes y escalofriantes ojos, no ven la hora de conocer a sus nuevas familias, todas quieren ser las primeras en ser elegidas! Sin embargo, hay una en la que nadie se fija; la calabaza feliz. Porque... quien querria una calabaza sonriente en la noche mas terrorifica del ano?" -- back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Anastasia Higginbotham's What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood delves into queerness, Blackness, and the love that dismantles whiteness. It's a book about knowing deeply that you matter--always did, always will. It's a book about what schools get wrong and churches don't say; but institutions are made by people and the people are evolving. It's a book about being known and cherished by family, and living in communion with your own personal...
Author
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing -- the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasional run-in with his teacher, life is pretty simple for Steve. But then Steve hears a rumor that an African American family is moving to his all-Jewish neighborhood. It's 1948 and some of his neighbors are against...
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