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102) Calloused hands
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.
103) What's in a name?
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name--but her full name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name, doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name?"--
104) The braid girls
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of From the Desk of Zoe Washington. Maggie, her best friend Daija, and her new half-sister Callie team up to create the ultimate hair-braiding business, but the Braid Girls aren't the only hairstylists on the scene. Maggie's world is turned upside down when she learns that her father, whom she admires, has a second daughter, Callie, whom no one knew existed. But she won't let a new family member get in the way of her summer plans...
106) The new bicycle
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A girl living in a very normal house in a very normal neighborhood gets a new bicycle. She starts riding it and travels to a fantasy landscape. She visits the zoo and feels bad for the elephant locked up in his cage. So, she frees him and brings him all the way to his homeland. Then she goes back home. This little road movie has a simple, strong main message as well as clear underlying messages." --
107) Perfect paper cranes
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best?
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
NPM - YA AAPI Authors
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
NPM - YA AAPI Authors
Description
"Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks. Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
#1 on Esquire's List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time
"[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells
...111) Fierce as the wind
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In order to cope with a traumatic breakup and the uncertainty of life after high school, seventeen-year-old Miho decides to complete a triathlon and with the help of her family and friends learns just how far her determination can take her.
It's spring of senior year in Oahu. While her friends are getting ready for college, Miho is deep in her misery after her boyfriend broke up with her without warning. Then inspiration strikes: she'll do a triathlon....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, betweenthin and fat - as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky hair and broad nose to embody what old folks used to call...
114) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.
115) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
116) Meet me halfway
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grade classmates Mattie Gómez and Mercedes Miller realize they have the same Colombian father, they hatch a plan to run away from a school field trip to meet him for the first time.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"An emotional story about a former ballerina who is thrust back into 'normal' high school after a life-changing injury, and who comes to terms with life without her passion as well as discrimination in the ballet world"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Wattpad Books edition.
Language
English
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Description
"It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and accepting"--Back...
119) The blood gift
Author
Series
Blood gift duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning conclusion to N. E. Davenport's fast-paced, action-packed sci-fantasy duology, elite warrior Ikenna and her rogue cohort must outrun bounty hunters, their former comrades, and a megalomaniacal demi-god, all in the hopes of saving their friends and enemies from the racist and misogynistic oppression that threatens the continents from all sides."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American person to be elected to the vice presidency. While her nomination for this position was not unexpected, her rise to national prominence was one filled with unexpected turns and obstacles. After failing her first bar exam to become a lawyer, she tried again and passed. From there, she quickly rose through the...
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