Khan, Hena
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2024
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Summary: "Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WATYang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEAvachat, Arushi
Summary: As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AVAMancillas, Mónica
Summary: After her mother's sudden departure, twelve-year-old Salva Sanchez adjusts to her new life in an RV campground with her father, and finds her voice through new friendships and a love for Celia Cruz, the "queen of salsa."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANCheng, Jack
Summary: "Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Granny teaches her young grandson how to cook the family meal, in this celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. Includes recipe for baked macaroni and cheese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BINSriram, Meera
Summary: Because his grandmother is arriving from India, Rishi wants to cook curry alongside his dad using the flavors from his family's special spice box, but when he drops the box that holds the family's heart and history, he draws courage and meaning from their treasured past to set things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SRIKelkar, Supriya
Summary: When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KELAllen, Crystal
Summary: Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends -- and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event -- one he'd promised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALLSylvester, Natalia
Summary: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLMarquis, Krystal
Summary: The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: "Marya loves fall. Every year, her family goes to the town's fall festival and picks out the best pumpkin. But this year, after she sees her frenemy Alexa winning a big, cool pumpkin-shaped trophy, Marya knows she's got to win a trophy for something. It just so happens that her school is going to hold its own fall festival, with games and food and even a hayride. All the ticket sales will go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FARAhmed, Samira
Summary: While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC AHMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHMWoods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
Summary: While nursing a broken arm, almost twelve-year-old adoptee Coop, with the help of his grandfather and friend Zandi, unwaveringly cares for and protects Hop, a baby mockingbird born with one wing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOBadani, Sejal
Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Tan, Susan
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TANTamani, Liara
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAMHood, Ann
Summary: An Italian immigrant watches her six children grow up while she searches for her seventh, the product of a love affair who was given up for adoption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOMarks, Janae
Summary: Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art--if only her tech-obsessed family would understand her love of crafts! After Pearl learns of Boba Time's financial troubles, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHESorell, Traci
Summary: On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020