Dawson, Keila V.
Summary: Annabelle and her little brother, Beau, cannot decide which kind of gumbo to cook, so Annabelle suggests taking a family vote, but when some family members are not happy with the results, Annabelle comes up with a solution that satisfies everyone. Includes a glossary of Louisiana Creole terms, a cultural note, and math activities for developing data literacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAWSummary: "A story of community, belonging, and friendship told by South Asian authors through an interconnected anthology, based in the fictional town of Maple Grove, New Jersey, and centralized at the town community center."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAGKim, Hyo-eun
Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMSummary: "In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TALFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOWright, Ronald
Summary: Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WRIGavino, Kate
Summary: "Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust-fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively. And it's... great? They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAVSunmi
Summary: "Caroline Kim is feeling the weight of sophomore year. When she starts tutoring infamous senior Kimberly Park-Ocampo--a charismatic lesbian, friend to rich kids and punks alike--Caroline is flustered . . . but intrigued. Their friendship kindles and before they know it, the two are sneaking out for late-night drives, bonding beneath the stars over music, dreams, and a shared desire of getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUNDinan, Nicola
Summary: It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DINCho, Tina
Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG CHOOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORABlackmer, Gary L.
Summary: This is a story of intrigue set against a backdrop of good versus evil, guilt versus innocence, genius versus insanity. It involves a battle between the ultimate good men can do and their ultimate capabilities to produce evil and chaos. It is a story about the search for world dominance set within the purview of advancing medical technology. The same research that provides a definitive cure for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Indepentally Published] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAFrank, Victoria Benton
Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATTNayeri, Daniel
Summary: "This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams." The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC NAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction NayeriFarooki, Roopa.
Summary: Follows the machinations of a Bangladeshi-Pakistani family whose penchant for telling lies shapes the destinies of every member, from Henna, who lies her way into a marriage to a wealthy romantic, to her daughter Shona, who struggles with the superficialties binding her loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARSyed, Anoosha
Summary: Mirha questions her name after her classmates continually pronounce it wrong on the first day of school so her mother helps her to learn the significance of her name and to be proud of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SYETeerdhala, Swati
Summary: "When her grandmother gifts her a jasmine flower, Deepa Josyula wishes for her dream boyfriend, which sets in motion a chain of events that makes her question what her heart truly wants-- the perfect boy brought by magic or the uncertainty of the boy next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TEEPrasad, Maya
Summary: "The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PRAKwan, Kevin
Summary: Crazy rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KWACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KWALaRocca, Rajani
Summary: Traveling to the southern tip of India, Sejal, Mommy, and Pati find their way to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, and delight in making it to the end of the earth together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021