Munaweera, Nayomi.
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 MUNBenaron, Naomi
Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENOgawa, Yayoi.
Summary: What's a girl to do? Sumire's boyfriend has proposed, she's been reduced to working as a mascot in a theme park and Momo's been looking decidedly fuzzy! And that's not all ... Sumire is in for a surprise with some new additions to her little family: Momo's brought home a couple of special guests! Can Sumire manage this magically expanding menagerie at home?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POENapoli, Donna Jo
Summary: "When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAPAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika begin to suspect that their new friend Emma's life is in serious danger, and they're certain that her long-lost twin, Marie, is the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIHowland, Naomi.
Summary: In an old Russian village, Sadie and her brothers are poor and hungry until an old woman gives Sadie a frying pan that will make potato pancakes until it hears the magic words that make it stop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: BOARD HOWNovik, Naomi
Summary: "Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they graduate . . . or die. The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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Summary: "Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIRAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Toni and Mika receive a letter announcing Chris and Marie's engagement. Since Mika has had a crush on Chris forever, and Marie is their sworn enemy, the twins are upset by this news. They decide to journey to Diamas to rescue Chris. Captured by the maniacal Marie, they are forced to attend the evil engagement party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIKritzer, Naomi
Summary: Because her mother is always on the move, sixteen-year-old Steph hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet, a social media site where users upload cat pictures and the admin is CheshireCat, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures. When a threat from Steph's past catches up to her and CheshireCat's existence is discovered, it's up to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2019
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Summary: Stories about identical twins Toni and Mika and their adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika have paranormal powers that allow them to speak to each other telepathically and to teleport, but when they switch identities for sports day, Mr. Kageura discovers their secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2001
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Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika teleport back in time a thousand years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Toni and Mika are identical twins that couldn't be more different. Toni is the tomboy; Mika, the smart one. Although they look like ordinary junior high school students, these twins produce Miracle Powers when they unite. The girls use a blend of telepathy, teleportation, and magic to help get through the day. But when they decide to switch places for a day at each other's school, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Twin sisters Toni and Mika finally discover the true depth of their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKIAkimoto, Nami.
Summary: Meet Toni and Mika-identical twins as different as day and night. Although they look ordinary, when they unite, these wonder twins produce Miracle Powers: telepathy and teleportation. When Mika and Toni both have the same nightmare the same night, they sense that trouble is heading their way! Mason might be the enemy that Mika and Toni have been suspecting all along, but he might not be alone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 AKINye, Naomi Shihab
Summary: Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction NyeJeffers, Honorée Fanonne
Summary: To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past, uncovering shocking and unexpected tales of ancestors--Black, Indigenous, and white--in the deep South.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: It's Rashin's first day of school in America. Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books. And the kids' families are from all over. The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat. What will the other kids say?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KHEMbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBUAdelson, Leone
Summary: When he awakens from hibernation, Little Bear's hunger leads him to a house where a Purim celebration is just beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday AdelsonKnoll, Jessica
Summary: When tensions escalate on the set of a reality television program featuring young, ambitious female entrepreneurs, including Brett and Kelly Courtney, two sisters who are no strangers to sibling rivalry, one of them ends up dead.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018