Sellers, Bakari
Summary: "When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, "Who are your people?" and "Where are you from?" In these pages is a timeless celebration of the individuals and experiences that help shape young children into the most remarkable and unique beings that they can be"--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SELSima, Jessie
Summary: Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Sima 2017Gonzales, Chuck
Summary: Carlos Gomez is a member of the only Mexican American family in town, so he's used to being the odd one out. A lisp, a penchant for girl glamor, and being picked on by the class bully don't help either. But now there's a talent show coming up, and Carlos is performing with the BMX stunt team. What could possibly go wrong?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GONGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURHocking, Amanda
Summary: Ulla Tulin's journey to learn who her parents were has brought her to the attention of the Alvolk sect-- and a man claiming to be her father. The Alvolk released her-- but Ulla has lost a month of her life, and spends time trying to regain her memories. The incantation that will open the bridge to Alfheim, the First City, will unleash a menagerie of monstrous creatures upon Earth to consume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HOCWilson, Kevin
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILFerguson, Jenny
Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FERBenway, Robin
Summary: After getting pregnant at sixteen and putting her baby up for adoption, Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, goes looking for her biological family. She finds an older brother and younger sister, but she struggles to find the balance between her cautious joy at discovering two brand-new family members and the gaping loneliness that lingers in the space her daughter once held.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENTurnage, Sheila.
Summary: Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TURStatovci, Pajtim
Summary: The death of Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAWolitzer, Meg
Summary: Max's room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes? But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARTheroux, Marcel
Summary: "A dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THEWinters, Julian
Summary: After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as he thinks he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WINOram, Hiawyn.
Summary: To the amusement of Midnight the cat, Dog sets out to prove that he deserves a more exciting name and discovers the importance of being happy with his own identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: P-J Basket ORAMartin, Charles
Summary: "Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARBennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENAbbas, Fatin
Summary: "A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBDetweiler, Katelyn
Summary: Calliope Silversmith has never wanted anything more than her best friends Ginger and Noah, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio-- except maybe knowing who her sperm donor is. When Max and his family move into the sad old house across the woods from Calliope, she realizes it's nice to get to know someone new. The stability of her longtime trio wavers as she and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DETHughes, Lorena
Summary: "A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap opera. When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father's mysterious suicide, she finds a letter-signed with an "A"--Which reveals that her mother is very much alive and living in San Isidro, a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGNguyen, Eric
Summary: "When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCunningham, Vinson
Summary: "I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEChima, Cinda Williams.
Summary: After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIPerry, Latashia M.
Summary: "Skin Like Mine is a fun, easy-to-read for beginners as well as advanced readers. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children. Guaranteed to make you smile and a bit hungry."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016