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461) UnWholly
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
464) The origin of others
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"The sweeping story of the Perlmutter family opens with the moment when Lev, the assimilated, cultured German Jewish father at the center of this saga, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his beautiful gentile wife Josephine and their children Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I focuses on Lev's life-changing experiences on the Eastern Front, where he becomes involved with a local Jewish woman in the...
467) Moonflower
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Before the start of World War II, ten-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war while attempting to keep in touch with her parents, who are trying to survive in Holland.
469) I was born for this
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A Angel) Rahimi, transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, and friend and bandmate Rowan, but their relationships become complicated when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together.
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Language
English
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Description
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
471) Queen of shadows
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
472) The best at it
Author
Language
English
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2021-2022 OBOB 6th-8th Grade
Children's Books for Pride Month
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
Children's Books for Pride Month
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
Description
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
Author
Language
English
Description
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living "in hiding" as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.
When Danielle Marton's father is killed during the early days of the German Occupation, her mother sends her to live in a quiet farming town near Limoges in Vichy France. Now called Marie-Jeanne Chantier, Danielle struggles to balance the truth of what's happened...
476) On a woman's madness
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Language
English
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Description
"An image-filled, fragmentary novel exploring feminism, identity, race, sexuality, and motherhood"--
477) Everblaze
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
Sophie's talents are getting stronger and, with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she is determined to find her kidnappers but a daring mistake pushes her world to the edge of war, and soon she has exposed a a major conspiracy that could threaten all she loves.
478) The knowing
Author
Publisher
Rise
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter, political activist, and feminist icon comes a picture book with purpose, with heart, and with words that sing. Singer-songwriter, activist, feminist, and best-selling author Ani Di Franco has written something for her youngest audience: a picture book that invites young readers to ponder the distinction between outer forms of identity and the inner light of consciousness that is even more central to...
479) Huda F cares?
Author
Series
Huda F books volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
Author
Language
English
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Indigenous Own Voices
Indigenous People's Day: Young Adult
Indigenous Peoples' Month: 2023
Rogue Reads 2022-23 Selections
Indigenous People's Day: Young Adult
Indigenous Peoples' Month: 2023
Rogue Reads 2022-23 Selections
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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