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Friendship garden 1Clements, Andrew
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CLERajurkar, Anuradha D.
Summary: Rani Kelkar never lied to her parents-- until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in-- his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art-- make him her mother's worst nightmare. When Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAJLo, Ginnie.
Summary: "A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans--a favorite Chinese food--growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LOAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADAStone, Tamara Ireland.
Summary: Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOMiller, Kalena
Summary: The unforgettable tale of a girl, her maybe-criminal mom, her babysitting business, and her pet pineapple.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILCurrie, Lindsay
Summary: Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLIBalliett, Blue
Summary: On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Balliett 2013Ahmed, Samira
Summary: Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AHMMeyerhoff, Jenny.
Summary: Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FG 1Loutzenhiser, Katy
Summary: Zan is baffled when her best friend, Priya, stops answering her emails after moving to California, but new friend, Logan, presents the disturbing possibility that Priya cannot answer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOUAhmed, Samira
Summary: Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AHMRhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018