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Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERD

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012

Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe

Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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

Deen, Natasha

Summary: In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're running out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hists,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DEE

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

Summary: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYA

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RYA

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RYA

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

Summary: Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RYA

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio/Listening Library 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CUR

Cao, Wenxuan

Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAO

Frost, Helen

Summary: In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Frost 2009

Krans, Angela Pham

Summary: "Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRA

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: "With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Thomas, Rebecca

Summary: "What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THO

Menon, Sandhya

Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020

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

Sekaran, Shanthi

Summary: Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEK

Sepahban, Lois.

Summary: Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEP

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEP

McDonald, Megan.

Summary: In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCD

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC McD

McDonald, Megan.

Summary: It's 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America's 200th birthday. Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train in honor of the Bicentennial. The journey is filled with adventures, challenges, and self-discovery as Julie faces her fears to make an important contribution to her country's birthday. The "Looking Back" section provides additional information about Bicentennial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AME

Badani, Sejal

Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018

Leppard, Lois Gladys.

Summary: A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2007

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Smiley, Jane.

Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Eves, Rosalyn

Summary: Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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

Avachat, Arushi

Summary: As her sister's wedding approaches, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024

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

Weatherford, 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 WEA

Kelkar, Supriya

Summary: When ten-year-old Indian American Geetanjali, part of a family of classical Hindustani music singers, believes her neighbor has become an ichchaadari naagin, a cobra that can turn human, she must overcome her fears and harness the power of her voice before the naagin changes the whole town into snakes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEL

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