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
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"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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Banned Books Week: Young Adult Fiction
Book List for SOU Education Courses
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy 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. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer...
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English
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Ashland Books @ Noon November 2019 Picks
Authors to Celebrate this Black History Month
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Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.
Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.
Two families from...
Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.
An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.
Two families from...
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English
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
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English
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A young woman determined to carry on her grandfather's proud legacy takes a stand for the rights of blacks and Indians long after her father, former slave Cow Tom, becomes a translator in the American Indian wars after being sold as a slave to a Creek Indian chief. 432pp., 35K, Auth res: Northern CA
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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At one point, the word "computer" referred to the people who used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines and paper to calculate complex equations needed for space travel. As one of these mathematicians at NACA's (later NASA's) Langley laboratory, Katherine Johnson's skills were in high demand and she was trusted by administrators and astronauts alike to be accurate and reliable.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
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English
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"When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything--her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child-until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
10) A comb of wishes
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English
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Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
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Questioneers volume 3
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English
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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
12) Vinyl moon
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Language
English
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"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
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Series
Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 5
Language
English
Description
When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.
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Series
Language
English
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Fall in love all over again with the characters from the bestselling Simonverse novels in this highly anticipated epilogue novella. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, the movie Love, Simon, and the new Hulu series spin-off, Love, Victor! It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood...
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English
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2021-2022 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
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"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--