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2) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
4) House arrest
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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AAPI Middle Grade Fiction
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Islamic Heritage- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Islamic Heritage- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Description
Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,”...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When a teacher asks her class what one thing they would save in an emergency, some students know the answer right away. Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some change their minds when they hear their classmates’ responses. A lively dialog ignites as the students discover unexpected facets of one another—and themselves. With her ear for authentic dialog and knowledge of tweens’ priorities and emotions, Linda...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A stormy night at sea has uncovered some long-buried secrets and surprises. Is that the mast of a shipwreck? A faded pirate hat? And what’s that hiding in the sand? A mandible and a clavicle, phalanges and femurs, a tibia and a fibula — could there be a set of bones scattered across the ocean floor? And who might they belong to? A jaunty rhyme takes readers on an underwater scavenger hunt as a comical skeleton tries to put itself back together...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Anna can't wait to move to the beautiful country-the Chinese name for America. Although she's only ever known life in Taiwan, she can't help but brag about the move to her family and friends. But the beautiful country isn't anything like Anna pictured. Her family can only afford a cramped apartment, she's bullied at school, and she struggles to understand a new language. On top of that, the restaurant that her parents poured...
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.
13) Garvey's choice
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading-anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey,...
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
15) Shampoodle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes a dog grooming establishment on picture day and the uproar some curious kittens cause when they try to explore.
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