Wilson, Jamia
Summary: "Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form your own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint off The Quarto Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.42 WILWilson, Jamia
Summary: Young, Gifted and Black Too celebrates the lives of 52 more leaders, heroes, sportspeople, and artists of color from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILDonohue, Moira Rose
Summary: "Learn all about Gettysburg National Military Park, from which historic events occurred there to what it is like to visit today."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 DONGigot, Jami
Summary: A lonely boy feels like a stranger on his own planet until the day his radio bursts to life with the rhythm of stardust energy. Includes notes and facts about David Bowie's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIGDonohue, Caitlin
Summary: "Culture writer Caitlin Donohue uses interviews with medical researchers, educators, activists, artists, business leaders, and other experts to craft an inclusive and comprehensive overview of cannabis in the Western Hemisphere for young adults"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362.29 DONJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILHeelan, Jamee Riggio
Summary: Chris, a boy who was born deaf, tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate with others, how his friends help him, and how, with the help of an interpreter, he can attend public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.4 HEEKaufman, Amie
Summary: Whenever Jake and Marisol get together, adventure follows. They have their late Nana to thank for that. Her epic trips and treasure hunts were legendary. With the whole family reuniting for one last summer vacation at Nana's home, the cousins are prepared for an extraordinary trip of their own. Following a map Nana left behind, Jake and Marisol sneak out to a nearby lighthouse, then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KAUMebane, Jeanie
Summary: Freshwater marshes are found throughout the United States and in many countries around the world. And in every marsh, there is an opportunity to view dozens of species of animal life. Written in a rhyming cumulative style like The House that Jack Built, At the Marsh in the Meadow portrays the wetlands food chain, showing how all forms of life, from the mud at the bottom of the marsh to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.8 MEBHavemeyer, Janie
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Chinese immigrants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HAVJaine, Lillian
Summary: Elmo's mother tells him all the ways she loves him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2019
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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
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MARTrasler, Janee.
Summary: Silly rhyming text invites young readers to join the chickies as they have their pictures taken and learn about opposites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperfestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD TRAUngvarsky, Janine
Summary: Readers will get an in-depth look at everything weather related in this encyclopedia. Alongside photos, readers will learn about weather basics and extreme storms including thunderstorms, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, hailstorms, blizzards, ice storms, droughts, wildfires and firestorms, dust storms, and heat waves. How climate change impacts extreme storms is covered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO Publishing 2023
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Summary: After being betrayed by her best friend, even Avery's playlists can't help her forget what happened. Now her parents have dragged her and her sister Lauren to a remote family camp for the entire summer. And the worst part: there's no internet. Brooks is a cute but off-limits staff member, and Lauren is always in Avery's face. As the outside world falls away. Brooks offer Avery the chance of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESWeiss, Bobbi JG
Summary: Charming street rat Aladdin finds a magic lamp containing a genie and must hide it from the evil Jafar, while he also attempts to make Princess Jasmine fall in love with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISWest, Kasie
Summary: When Kate Bailey lets her best friend, Alana, talk her into joining their high school's podcast she did not expect to find herself as the host, or to enjoy answering calls and giving advice on the air, but she is actually pretty good at it--but when she gets an anonymous call from a boy (possibly Diego Martinez) about his secret feelings for a girl (probably Alana) she is faced with a problem,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION WESLittler, Jamie
Summary: "In a snow-covered land where monsters rule the icy tundra, only song weavers hold the power to control these vicious giants. But for centuries song weavers have been the subject of suspicion--how can those who hold so much power be trusted? Ever since his parents were lost on a pathfinding expedition, Ash has spent his life as an outcast. As a budding song weaver, his village marked him as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LITRice, Jamie
Summary: "In Turtle or Tortoise?, beginning readers will learn to spot the differences between these shelled reptiles. Carefully leveled text relays what the animals look like and how they behave. Each page then asks readers to name which animal is shown in the photo. Answers appear upside down on the bottom of each page, making reading for learning interactive and fun. A See and Compare spread shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog books/Jump!, Inc. 2022
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Summary: Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMSwenson, Jamie
Summary: A dog and a duck get together to play an unusual game of fetch in the park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE SWEKaufman, Amie
Summary: When Selly's father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter on land while he sails to adventure in the north seas. But any plans to follow him are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship, presenting her and the crew with a dangerous mission: to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUNicholas, Jamar
Summary: "Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! In the city where Leon lives, superheroes--and supervillains--are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020