Burch, Ciera

Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BUR

Dumond-Desir, Samanka

Summary: When she and her family find a cat and, after no luck finding its owner, decide to keep her, Haitian American kindergartener Liline must come up with the perfect name.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUM

Younge, Lesley

Summary: Allen, known as A-Train because he is the fastest kid around, races through the city towards the one thing that will get him to slow down.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOU

Dumond-Desir, Samanka

Summary: Liline, a young Haitian American girl, and her cat Pepper learn a little about Grann's homeland of Haiti while getting ready for the first day of kindergarten.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DUM