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Children of Holodomor survivors Juvenile fiction COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Juvenile fiction Families Juvenile fiction Family life Fiction Family secrets Juvenile fiction Motown Record Corporation Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Survival Juvenile fiction Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Fiction Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Juvenile fictionSummary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COMBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: Ellie loves the Journey of the Mind club and struggles to keep from failing miserably on her soccer team, but when both groups have tournaments the same day, she musters her team spirit and tries to succeed at both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARBarshaw, Ruth McNally.
Summary: When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot flies the coop-literally-Ellie has an even bigger problem. With help from a librarian, a zookeeper, and Ellie's own pet-obsessed family, the bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BARMarsh, Carole.
Summary: "Put on your dancing shoes as Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa mosey into Motown, where they find themselves in a musical mystery complete with classic cars, missing melodies, puzzling clues, and lots of jiggling, wiggling, toe-tapping tunes!" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MARMarsh, Katherine
Summary: In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023