Archives: Books
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Don’t Say a Word Mamá
Author Joe Hayes and artist Esau Andrade team up to deliver a knockout picture book about siblings. Two sisters secretly try to outdo each other with generosity. Each new gift …
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The Girl and the Wolf
While picking berries with her mother, a little girl wanders too far into the woods. When she realizes she is lost, she begins to panic. A large grey wolf makes …
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Five Midnights
Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribución. If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other’s company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders …
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Color Me In
A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family …
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Aru Shah and the Song of Death
The second in four books about a 12-year-old girl named Aru Shah and her journey to find her Pandava sisters in order to restore order to the world and save …
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful …
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Forty Thieves
This retelling of the One Thousand and One Nights tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” set in tenth-century Baghdad, is told from the perspective of Marjana, the girl who …
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Grace Goes to Washington
A lively follow-up to Grace for President in which Grace and the rest of the school model the three branches of government’s well as how to be good citizens wherever …
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Loretta’s Gift
Meet a little girl named Loretta who tries to find the perfect gift for her new baby cousin in this sweet picture book by bestselling author Pat Zietlow Miller! Loretta …
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Loud House Volume 8: Livin La Casa Loud
Lincoln Loud and Ronnie Anne Santiago have a lot in common. They are both surrounded by their large families, both have had their fair share of hand me downs, and …
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Everlasting Nora
After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, 12-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila’s North Cemetery, which is the largest shantytown of its …
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Por Todo Nuestro Alrededor
Grandpa and granddaughter meditate on gardens and seeds, and on circles seen and unseen, as they share and create family traditions in this stunning exploration of the cycles of life …
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain …
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Begone the Raggedy Witches:
On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup’s family. Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the tyrannical queen who has outlawed most …
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Mommy Sayang
Set in Malaysia, this is a tender story about a mother and daughter’s relationship, which grows unexpectedly and even joyfully when the mother becomes sick.
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Hope Is Our Only Wing
Set in Zimbabwe, Rutendo Tavengerwei’s unforgettable novel offers a beautiful and honest look at adolescence, friendship, and the capacity for courage. For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, hope is nothing but a leap …
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Luna Loves Library Day
Luna’s parents live apart, but she loves library day: that’s the day she spends with her dad. Exploring the shelves, they find magic, mystery and history, but the best is …
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The Sun Is Also A Star
Two teens–Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica–cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives–Daniel is on …
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All of Us with Wings
Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone …
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The Good Luck Girls
Aster, the protector Violet, the favorite Tansy, the medic Mallow, the fighter Clementine, the catalyst THE GOOD LUCK GIRLS The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls—they know their …
