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Amitié Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Families Families Juvenile fiction Familles Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Family life Fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Middle schools Juvenile fiction Novels in verse Pakistani Americans Fiction Écoles moyennes Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesseWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWMills, Claudia
Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILFaruqi, Reem
Summary: When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARLaRocca, Rajani
Summary: "Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family and their community. But Reha's parents don't understand. She feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma. Although their names are linked--Reha means 'star' and Punam means 'moon'--they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. Really sick. Reha, who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022