Aliu, Akim

Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALI

Djanikian, Ariel

Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJA

Arts, Tenille

Contents: Back then right now -- That's my friend you're talking about -- One bedroom apartment -- Breakup songs / feat. Callista Clark -- Life goes like that -- Girl t girl -- Heartbreak regulars -- Mama's boy -- Over you is you / feat. Matt Stell -- Give it to me straight -- High school sweetheart -- Sweet sixteen -- Growing old young.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ART

Kuipers, Alice

Summary: "Carley Allison was an up-and-coming young figure skater and singer who died tragically at the age of 18 of a cancer so rare there were only seven cases in the world. In this book, you will come to know Carley in her own words and in the words of the people who knew and loved her. Award-winning author Alice Kuipers weaves the memories of Carley's friends, family, and boyfriend with the blog...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: KCP Loft 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ALL