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This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers-Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams-along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.
Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families,...
12142) Tâpwê and the Magic Hat
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"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations."
-Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With Happiness
From beloved Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie comes a chapter book inspired by oral histories and traditions. On a prairie reserve, Tâpwê receives a mysterious gift from Kokhom (grandma)-and finds himself on an unforgettable adventure.
Tâpwê can't wait to spend...
12143) The Year of the Rat
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Tales from the Chinese zodiac volume 3
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This new edition is revised with a new bilingual translation in simplified Chinese.
Ralph the rat explores the world with the boy Bing. But when Bing's birthday party goes awry, can Ralph rescue him using traits that others frowned upon?
The third in the popular series introduces the twelve charismatic animals from the Chinese calendar. 2008 is the Year of the Rat.
12144) Pandemic
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The 2015 SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner for the Atlantic region!
Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna's circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn't about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors...
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In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named, Mary White, traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not, slated for friendship, but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both...
12146) It's boba time for Pearl Li!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Pearl Li tries to gain her family's acceptance and save her favorite boba tea shop by selling her crocheted amigurumi dolls.
Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art--if only her tech-obsessed family would understand...
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Vanderbeekers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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In this new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series, the Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change. Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own...
12148) I am a great friend!
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Loud and splashy Baby Capybara must change his ways if he wants a bevy of peaceful birds perched on his back, but when an unexpected critter splashes onto the scene, he realizes he does not need to change himself to find friends.
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2016.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 617 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Join Dorothy, the smart one, Sophia, the glib one, Rose, the naive one, and Blanche ... Season 2 garnered its second straight Emmy award for "Outstanding Comedy Series" and a Golden Globe for "Best TV Series Comedy/Musical." It's a star-filled season with special guests, including Burt Reynolds in a surprise cameo and a young George Clooney playing a Miami policeman who saves the day.
12150) My flawless life
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"At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner. Hana is a fixer. She knows who to call, what to say, and how to make sure secrets stay where they belong--buried. She can fix anything. Except her own life, which was destroyed when her father, senator Skip Lerner, was arrested for an accident that left one woman nearly dead. Now Hana's reputation is ruined and...
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I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
12152) Pig makes art
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Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Pig makes art. Cat does not like the art. Will Cat have a change of heart?"--
Pig is painting, but Cat is not impressed; while Cat naps, Pig paints spots on him, which could mean the end of their friendship.
12153) In limbo
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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339 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
12154) The best of friends
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Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (all col.) ; 30 cm.
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Despite their physical differences, best friends Hare and Bear laugh together, play together, and share special moments.
12155) A dog on his own
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Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
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153 p. ; 22 cm.
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After a daring escape from the animal shelter, Pearl, Peppy, and K-10--so named because he is one step above all the other canines--explore the outside world while moving from one adventure to another.
12156) The house of doors
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Pub. Date
2023.
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306 pages ; 25 cm
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"It's 1921, and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay. Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day, but he's beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health, and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more...
12157) Roan stallion
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A Lakota teen and a roan stallion form a deep relationship after they both survive being sucked into a raging tornado. With the help of friends and family, the teen trains the stallion to lead a relay race team so he can try to win the prize money for a much-needed new tractor.
12158) The Last Bear
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindness, adventure, and forging your own path—perfect for fans of Pax and A Wolf Called Wander.
There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that’s what April’s father tells her when his scientific research takes them to a faraway Arctic outpost.
But one night, April catches a glimpse of something distinctly bear shaped loping across...
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Timmy Failure volume 1
Pub. Date
2014, 2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
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294 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
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Meet Timmy Failure, the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. And his lazy sidekick, total, a 1,500-pound polar bear.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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When Glow, a bioluminescent squid who loves to show off his twirling skills, ditches his friends in search of fans, he gets lost and loses his glow, but luckily he runs into some familiar faces and realizes he would much rather twirl with friends than twirl for fans.
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