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Agostini, Alliah L.

Summary: Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGO

Bromfield, Asha

Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRO

Rees, Celia.

Summary: In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REE

Card, Maisy

Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020

Card, Maisy

Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CAR

Fahmy, Huda

Summary: This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 FAH

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 FAH

Escoffery, Jonathan

Summary: In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ESC

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood

Summary: My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023

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Blackwood, Lauren

Summary: Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria takes on a dangerous expedition through the monster-filled Jamaican jungle to secure a better future and find where she truly belongs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLA

Allen, Nancy Campbell

Summary: "Dr. Isla Cooper must travel to Port Lucy in Jamaica to locate the witch that placed a spell on her--one that puts her into a death-like sleep every night--before the spell becomes permanent"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Marlin, Jen

Summary: After discovering Wind Rider, an abandoned magical sailboat, Max and Sofia arrive on a beach in Hawaii where, with new friend Laila, they rescue newly-hatched sea turtles. Includes facts about sea turtles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021

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Young, Kerry

Summary: As a boy, Pao came to Jamaica with his mother and brother in the wake of the Chinese Civil War. Pao becomes a powerful man, but he's not a typical crime boss. He is sensitive at heart and guided by the principles 0f Sun Tzu's Art of War, even though , as he discovers, the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sage can be tough to interpret when applied to the criminal annd predicament he faces.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOU

Hymas, Allison K.

Summary: When twelve-year-old identical twins Peter and Kai accidentally raise an ancient sea god, they must delve into a world of hidden magic and dangerous puzzles to uncover the secrets of lost Atlantis and save their family and home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HYM

Hand, Cynthia

Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAN

Arthurs, Alexia

Summary: Presents a collection of stories set in Jamaica, New York City, and a Midwestern university, where multicultural main characters and their families navigate evolving senses of race, racism, family, and tradition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ART

Fitzgerald, María José

Summary: Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIT

Stringfellow, Lisa

Summary: Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who cangrant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STR

Aster, Alex

Summary: Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AST

Bear, Greg

Summary: "A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Berkes, Marianne Collins.

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: The coral reef in this book is like a marine nursery, teeming with mamas and babies! In the age-old way of kids and fish, children will count and clap to the rhythm of "Over in the Meadow" while pufferfish "puff", gruntfish "grunt" and seahorses "flutter". The colorful art is fresh and fun-constructed entirely from polymer clay-and invites young fingers to fashion fishy forms

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2004

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Hooper, Don P.

Summary: When Gil, a Black teen from Brooklyn, struggles to fit in at his primarily white Manhattan prep school, he wages a clandestine war against the racist administration, parents, and students, while working with other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOO

Henry, Veronica G.

Summary: Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Becker, Lynn

Summary: In this variation on the traditional sea shanty "What Do You Do with," a ship's crew of sailors must content with mythical sea creatures, including a kraken, a sea serpent, and a giant tortoise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEC

Sabatinelli, Elisa

Summary: When a greedy entrepreneur searching for a legendary pearl forces Hector's family to close their tourist expedition business in an Italian coastal town, Hector decides to thwart the man's plans and save the sea, his family, and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver, just like his father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAB

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