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1) George
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2015. | First edition, September 2015. | Scholastic Press | 195 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available
J Realistic Fiction 1 available J GIN |
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"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part . . . because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a...
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2020. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xvi, 294 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Teen Non-Fiction 1 available YA 305.8 REY |
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
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Rashad hoy también está ausente. Eso reza el graffiti con el que empezó todo. No, no exactamente. Todo comenzó con una señora tropezándose con Rashad en una tienda y con un paquete de patatas fritas cayéndose al suelo. Nada de lo que Rashad dijo después tuvo importancia. No impidió que la policía lo golpeara. Una y otra, y otra vez. Con violencia contra el pavimento. Porque parecía que estaba robando. Porque su piel era oscura. Porque sus...
4) The poet X
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First edition. | HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 361 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
TEEN Realistic Fiction 1 available YA FIC ACE |
eBook
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | Freading | Quill Tree Books | 1 online resource (384 pages) | English | Available Online
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Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
5) Speak
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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1999 | 1st ed. | Farrar Straus Giroux | 197 p. ; 22 cm. | English |
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A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2007 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown | 229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | English | Available
TEEN Realistic Fiction 1 available YA FIC ALE |
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | Magination Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English | Available
JEP Social Justice 1 available JEP CEL |
Description
After discussing the police shooting of a local Black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers that provides general guidance about addressing racism with children, child-friendly vocabulary definitions, conversation guides, and a link to additional online resources for parents and teachers.
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1995 | 35th anniversary ed. | HarperCollinsPublishers | 323 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available
2 available FIC LEE |
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p2006 | Recorded Books | 11 sound discs (12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
1 available BCD FIC LEE |
eBook
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | Freading | HarperCollins | 1 online resource (336 pages) | English | Available Online
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture,...
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2002 | Penguin Books | 103 p. | English | Available
1 available FIC STE |
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[1970] | [1st ed.] | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | 164 p. 22 cm. | English | Available
1 available FIC MOR |
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Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.
11) The Hate U Give
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Friends Room (Ask Staff Member) 1 available
YA FIC THO
Friends Room (Ask Staff Member) 2 available
YA FIC THO
TEEN Realistic Fiction 1 available
YA FIC THO
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | First edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 444 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available
Friends Room (Ask Staff Member) 1 available YA FIC THO Friends Room (Ask Staff Member) 2 available YA FIC THO TEEN Realistic Fiction 1 available YA FIC THO |
eBook
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | Freading | HarperCollins | 1 online resource (464 pages) | English | Available Online
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
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[2018] | Chronicle Books | 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm. | English | Available
Graphic Novel 1 available GRA FIC TWI |
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"Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives at the Naval Observatory with his Grandpa, the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever ..."--Front dust jacket flap.
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A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or "the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their...
14) I am Jazz!
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2014 | Dial Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm. | English |
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15) Handmaids Tale
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
16) Drama
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2012 | 1st ed. | Graphix | 233 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm. | English |
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Description
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
17) Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 2
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
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c2005 | 1st ed. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm. | English | Available
JEP Family 1 available JEP RIC |
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c1999 | Scholastic | 136 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English |
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Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
20) This one summer
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2014 | 1st ed. | First Second | 317 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm. | English |
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