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"There's a long-running joke that, after coming out as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex person, you should receive a membership card and instruction manual. This is that instruction manual. You're welcome. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask: from sex to politics, hooking up to stereotypes, coming out and more. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
3) Dolphins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the different types of dolphins, where they live, what they eat, etc.
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"After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins stranded in exile in Jordan. Welcome to the New World tells...
6) Inheritance
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HarperCollins
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2023
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They tell me to “fix” my hair.And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;but how do you fix this shipwreckedhistory of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format...
7) Grand Canyon
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Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder,...
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Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called 'one of the great novelists of our time' (New York Times).'this is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me . . . I have written as an author of...
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It was March 11, 2011 when a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami, which, in turn, destroyed the core three reactors of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. This tragedy cost almost 20,000 lives and devastated countless more, including Naoto Matsumura, a farmer evacuated from the deadly radiation zone. Unwilling to abandon his beloved animals, Naoto chooses to return home to his farm — and to fight for the beauty of life. ...
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2022
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own...
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own...
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Harry N Abrams Inc
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Learn about the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of World War I with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series! In 1914, the world’s biggest countries (and some of its smallest, too) were gearing up for a massive fight. Land, history, geography—each country came to war for different reasons and with different resources. But most ended up the same: sending their young men to fight for their lives in the mud, on the...
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Peachtree Pub Co Inc
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Take a free-form trip though the human body with these humorous riddle poems.Which body part, if spread out flat, would cover a tennis court? Stretched end to end, which body parts would wrap four times around the equator? What’s the hardest substance in the human body?In these pages you will discover the astonishing answers to these questions —and many more! Put your cerebral cortex to work. Follow the anatomical, poetic, and visual clues to...
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Random House Digital Dist
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Disponible en edición bilingüe inglés-español, esta exitosa serie ofrece importantes e interesantes temas científicos para hacer pensar a los más pequeños.Con la exactitud de un experto y la sencillez para que lo entienda un niño, este libro explica los principios básicos del vuelo, desde el de las aves y los aviones hasta el de los cohetes, y los relaciona con el mundo del bebé. Contiene atractivas ilustraciones que se complementan con...
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Random House Digital Dist
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Disponible en edición bilingüe inglés-español, esta exitosa serie ofrece importantes e interesantes temas científicos para hacer pensar a los más pequeños.Con la exactitud de un experto y la sencillez para que lo entienda un niño, Quarks explica los principios físicos y químicos básicos de las partículas (quarks, protones, neutrones, átomos y moléculas) y los relaciona con el mundo del bebé. Contiene atractivas ilustraciones que se...
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Random House Digital Dist
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this book explores the basics of flight – from birds, to planes and rockets – and ties it all to baby’s world. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby’s sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!With tongue firmly in cheek, the Baby...
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Random House Digital Dist
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Big, brainy science for the littlest listeners.Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book engages readers in a game of hide-and-seek with Schrodinger's famous feline. Can cat be awake and asleep at the same time? Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby's sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!With tongue firmly...
17) Mexikid
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2023
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NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • An unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico “One of those books that kids will pass to their friends as soon as they have finished it.”—Victoria Jamieson, creator of the National Book Award finalist When Stars Are Scattered WINNER OF THE PURA BELPRÉ AUTHOR AWARD AND ILLUSTRATOR AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST...
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2024
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Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary'but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious,...
19) The Pretty One
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady stream of self-hate society strengthened inside her. But...
20) Furiously Happy
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In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
As Jenny says:
"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible
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