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102) The Vine Basket
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Things aren't looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she's needed on the family farm. The longer she's out of school, the more likely it is that she'll be sent off to a Chinese factory . . . perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American woman who buys one of her decorative vine baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three weeks for more. Mehrigul must brave terrible storms, torn-up hands...
103) Purplicious
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Series
Pinkalicious volume 2
Language
English
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of her favorite color.
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Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
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"Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that--because clothes are never just clothes. Men's heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon...
106) Dog driven
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Language
English
Description
McKenna, fourteen, is losing her vision to Stargardt's disease, but that will not stop her from competing in a rigorous new sled dog race through the Canadian wilderness.
107) We dream of space
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and wrestles with an...
Author
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Author Joanna Gaines follows up her #1 New York Times bestselling We Are the Gardeners with The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be. This children's book, beautifully illustrated by Julianna Swaney, celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together in a bright and beautiful adventure"--
109) Sisters of glass
Author
Series
Sisters of glass volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Halan is a powerless princess. She is heir to the Magi Kingdom, a blazing desert land ruled by ancient magic. But unlike every royal before her, Halan has no magical powers of her own. Nalah is a powerful pauper. The glassblower?s daughter, she lives in the land of New Hadar, where magic is strictly outlawed. But Nalah has a powerful force growing within her?one she can?t always control. One girl fears magic, one worships it....
110) Lily's promise
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Language
English
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"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
111) Kyra, just for today
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Language
English
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"At the start of seventh grade, Kyra believes her alcoholic mother, who has been sober for five years, has relapsed and with no one to count on, not even her best friend, she starts to question whether being just enough is not enough at all"--
112) I got it!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
Author
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimis first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obaydas family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luckdress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh . Life in...
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Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson keeps the confessions coming breathlessly as Tandy Angel delves deeper into her own dark history.
Wealthy young women are being murdered on Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right places. Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she cracked was the mystery of her parents' deaths. Now, while she's working...
116) The Breadwinner
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
117) Gracefully Grayson
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Language
English
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"Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world"--
118) I promise
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"...[an] inspiring picture book that reminds us that tomorrow's success starts with the promises we make to ourselves and our community today."--
120) A trick of the light
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Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.
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