Alessandri, Alexandra

Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALE

Vandever, Daniel W.

Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE VAN

Shannon, David

Summary: David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 1999

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SHA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Shannon 1999

Rahman, Bahram

Summary: Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. A sensitive author's note addresses the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines. --

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAH