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4861) Melody lifts her voice
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Melody Ellison loves singing and gardening, and is inspired by friends and family and the Civil Rights Movement to make changes in her community. Melody's story of leadership and making one's voice heard is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a girl in 1964."--
4862) Color me in: a novel
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is torn between two worlds, passing for white while living in Harlem, being called Jewish while attending her mother's Baptist church, and experiencing first love while watching her parents' marriage crumble.
4863) The moon within
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
4864) Mob hits
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Lawless:The loyalty of the infamous Bondurant brothers-- bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia-- is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Gangster squad: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs,...
4865) Small fry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
4866) The duke heist
Author
Series
Wild Wynchesters volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When the only father Chloe Wynchester has ever known makes a dying wish for his adopted family of orphans to recover a missing painting, she's the first one her siblings turn to for stealing it back. Lawrence Gosling, the Duke of Faircliffe, is tortured by his father's mistakes. To repair his estate's ruined reputation, he must wed a highborn heiress, but he may have to sacrifice his family's legacy to follow true love."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chin Music Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet Jim Akutsu, the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; Hiroshi Kashiwagi, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule...
4869) Find you first: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Tech billionaire Miles Cookson has everything he could dream of-- except time. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. Two decades ago young, struggling Miles was a sperm donor. Somewhere out there, he has kids-- nine of them. And they might be about to inherit his fortune-- or maybe something much worse. Aspiring film documentarian Chloe Swanson is on a quest to...
4870) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Series
De Witt family volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the glittering city of 1920s New York, Celia is hunting for her son Michael, who was taken from her at birth. In her desperation to find him, thwarted at every turn, she looks to the valiant girls of an underground flapper army and a runaway boy for help. Then the Great Depression erupts and everything seems lost. But the Depression brings Michael to her, and although Celia has lost her brother and her business, she has her child. They return to...
4872) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles put in place by racial injustice seem insurmountable. Soon Clem can barely recognize his home-- and himself. Can he live up to his father's...
4873) SPHDZ 4 life!
Author
Series
Spaceheadz volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
4874) The girl from the sea
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own.
4875) Rise of the fallen
Author
Series
Wars of the realm volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Validus is the last and least of God's angels, but he's seen much across the millennia since his creation. Empires have risen and fallen as angelic and demonic forces battle in a raging war that will determine humanity's fate -- and the fate of his defeated brothers. Eventually called to be an earth-bound warrior, Validus rises to a position of power and respect, commanding legions of angels through impossible battles and overwhelming odds. But when...
4876) Grown-up pose
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit Indian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she is and what she truly wants. But Anu doesn't have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she's ever done - and she's still dealing with the fallout....
4877) Harbor secrets
Author
Series
Legacy of Sunset Cove volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1916 when newspaper woman Anna McDowell learns her estranged father has suffered a stroke. Deciding it's time to repair bridges, Anna packs up her precocious adolescent daughter and heads for her hometown in Sunset Cove, Oregon. Although much has changed since the turn of the century, some things haven t. Anna finds the staff of her father s paper not exactly eager to welcome a woman into the editor-in-chief role, but her father insists he wants...
4878) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Practical magic volume 0.5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began ... with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will...
4880) Dawn raid
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
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