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1) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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2022 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
Newbery Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot something growing in a ditch by the side of the road... watercress! With an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail-covered...
2) Blended
Author
Language
English
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Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
3) One moment
Author
Language
English
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Description
Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the lake with their long-time friends, she realizes some terrible secrets are being kept.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
7) Kent State
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Language
English
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Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
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