Bahni Turpin
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Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Language
English
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2022-2023 OBOB 3rd-5th Grade
Amina's Voice Read-alikes
School Library Journal - Best Middle Grade Books of 2020
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Amina's Voice Read-alikes
School Library Journal - Best Middle Grade Books of 2020
Tween Gold Hill Book Club Picks 2020 - 2021
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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English
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Aboutness
Social Commentary Horror from Marginalized Voices
Spooky Books for Grown Ups
Summer Reading for Adults
Social Commentary Horror from Marginalized Voices
Spooky Books for Grown Ups
Summer Reading for Adults
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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English
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2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
Books @ Noon -- December 2021
Books @ Noon -- December 2021
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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--
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Series
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Gloriously rich and utterly delightful, Miss Peregrine’s Museum of Wonders is an indispensable guide to the peculiar world, perfect for longtime fans and new listeners alike. Covering everything from how to blend in with suspicious normals to the most popular time loops to visit as a temporal tourist, this essential volume is ideal for anyone curious about the world of Miss Peregrine: its strange history, curious practices,...
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Books @ Noon January 2021 picks
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
The Atlantic's Best Books of 2020
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
The Atlantic's Best Books of 2020
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
13) The story keeper
Author
Series
Carolina heirlooms novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours!
"Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller. Her story-within-a-story, penned with a fine, expressive style, will captivate writers and nonwriters alike." —Booklist
"Not since To Kill a Mockingbird has a story impacted me like this." —Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author of Seagrass Pier
Successful New York...
"Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller. Her story-within-a-story, penned with a fine, expressive style, will captivate writers and nonwriters alike." —Booklist
"Not since To Kill a Mockingbird has a story impacted me like this." —Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author of Seagrass Pier
Successful New York...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation's dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the...
15) Chains
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English
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a...
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a...