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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost--and the promise of a new friend--help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
4) Extra credit
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Language
English
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
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Language
English
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Author Visits in 2023
Best Children's Books 2023
Children's Sports Fiction
New Children's Books August 2023
Best Children's Books 2023
Children's Sports Fiction
New Children's Books August 2023
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Told in rhyming text, a young boy learns to swim in a pool with the example and encouragement of his family.
7) Extra normal
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Un-super" in a household of supernatural siblings, Charlie Greer is convinced that her "too nice and too normal" new neighbors are up to something and must uncover the truth, proving you don't need special powers to stop evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
11) Drawing Deena
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful.
13) Boomi's boombox
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English
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Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
14) Matteo
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English
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When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
15) We still belong
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English
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Best Children's Books 2023
Native American Heritage Month
New Children's Books September 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
Native American Heritage Month
New Children's Books September 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
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"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
18) Juneteenth
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English
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An African American family attends a modern-day Juneteenth parade in Galveston, Texas (the birthplace of the holiday). Text includes lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
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