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Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Muse spoke out-and was taken in. Who did the U.S. send to rescue the American citizen locked in a Panama jail? The elite members of the Delta Force. The special ops team trained for the dangerous mission then set out on the harrowing journey to save Kurt from behind enemy lines. Follow along on this graphic rescue mission. Then, learn more about the Delta Force and the soldiers' gear"--
2082) A Snake Falls to Earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 932 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...
2085) Marley Dias
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers a biography of child activist Marley Dias and explores how she has made a difference for other young girls.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers will follow the life of one of the greatest orators and writers of the abolitionist movement. Douglass was a man who believed in the equality of all people. The graphica format will keep readers entertained while a timeline and brief biographical key enrich the text.
2088) All Aboard!
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
2089) Patina
Author
Series
Track volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
2090) Genesis begins again
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising middle class, Black citizens jostled for an equal voice...
2092) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
346 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
VerĂ³nica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and VerĂ³nica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate -- and illuminates her journey towards redemption. Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the 'symbol of racial reconciliation' (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
2096) Jessi's secret language
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 12
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of the Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sittings for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a...
2100) Ghost boys
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family, his friend Carlos,...