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Haidle, Elizabeth

Summary: Brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HAI

Spectre, Peter H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 SPE

Slovo, Gillian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLO

Munson, Helene

Summary: "The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MUN

Marcovitz, Hal.

Summary: A biography of the forty-second president of the United States, focusing on his childhood and youth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLI MAR

Myer, Sarah

Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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Ali, Kazim

Summary: "An examination of the lingering effects of a hydroelectric power station on Pimicikamak sovereign territory in Manitoba, Canada"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI, KAZIM ALI

Smith, Jay M.

Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMI

Jefferson, Margo

Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEF

Fawkes, Glynnis

Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Brontë, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney - Hyperion 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FAW

Dodson, Peggy Rouch

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beistline Enterprises 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 DOD

Robeson, Teresa

Summary: "Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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Stepto, Robert B.

Summary: Stepto, an English and Afro-American Studies professor at Yale, vividly portrays the sights and sounds of a black resort in the 1940s and 1950s and the racially changing Chicago neighborhoods of his youth. In his lyrically written memoir, he recalls summers at Idlewild, a resort in Michigan, where black families determinedly built enclaves for themselves, a place to bring their families and not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEPTO, ROBERT STE

Bird, Kai.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIR

Hayasaki, Erika

Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAY

Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAB

Petersen, Christine.

Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial miller and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 664.72 PET

Hawley, Jonathan Pier

Summary: "An insightful account of lifesaving services by US lightkeepers and surfmen who battled high winds and waves, frigid temperatures and icy shores during their mission to protect lives on Lake Michigan."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 HAW

Yasuda, Anita

Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the United States' northwestern coast, including the Tlingit, Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, Haida, Chinook, Nisga'a, Puyallup, and Tsimshian nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.5 YAS

Balfe, Abigail

Summary: The author-illustrator shares her journey of growing up autistic in a confusing "normal" world, all the while missing some important information about herself, in this illustrated and completely unique book that provides crucial information about autism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BALFE BAL

Engle, Margarita

Summary: A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Retells the story of the famous thinker's first invention as a young Ben Franklin, troubled by the fact that fish swim better than he does, tries to invent a way to swim more fluidly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRA

Stillman, Deanne

Summary: Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 STIL

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)

Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CAL

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