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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
3) I'm New Here
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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Maria is from Guatemala, Jin is from Korea, and Fatima is from Somalia. All three are new to their American elementary school, and each has trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn to feel confident and comfortable in their new school without losing a sense of their home country, language, and identity. Young readers from all backgrounds...
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Describes the L.A. street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
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1 audio media player (approximately hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. + 6 books
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English
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The snowy day: A city snowfall has a boy making snow angels, snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again.
Apt. 3: The sounds of a harmonica lead to an understanding between a blind man and two boys who live in the same building in the city.
Goggles!: Peter and his friend call upon a faithful dog to outsmart a gang of bullies who want Peter's motorcycle goggles.
Whistle for Willie: For Peter, learning to whistle...
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 14 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
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"The story begins in 1619--a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod--when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Carmela, finally old enough to run errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect birthday wish, while his wish seems to be that she stayed home.--
Author
Series
Middle school volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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After winning a school-wide art competition, Rafe sets off to Australia on an adventure, but he soon finds himself facing unwelcoming host-siblings, torturous temperatures, and animals ready to sting him or eat him alive all around.
14) Members only
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020
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1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
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First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America?
Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"1965: Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
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English
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"From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and...
20) Come on, rain!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.