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"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
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Airi Sano, Prankmaster General volume 1
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF TOKUS
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JF TOKUS
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF TOKUS
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JF TOKUS
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF GUERR
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JF GUERR
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF GUERR
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JF GUERR
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Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.
4) Amal unbound
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Aurora Hills - Kids Fiction
JF SAEED
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JF SAEED
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Cherrydale - Kids Fiction
JF SAEED
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JF SAEED
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"Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior, she is forced to leave her heartbroken family behind and go work at their estate. Amal is distraught but has faced setbacks before. So she summons her courage and begins navigating the complex rules of life as a servant, with all its attendant jealousies...
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF KELKA
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JF KELKA
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF KELKA
1 available
JF KELKA
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF KELKA
1 available
JF KELKA
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As the only Indian American kid in her small town, Lekha Divekar feels like she has two versions of herself: Home Lekha, who loves watching Bollywood movies and eating Indian food, and School Lekha, who pins her hair over her bindi birthmark and avoids confrontation at all costs, especially when someone teases her for being Indian. When a girl Lekha's age moves in across the street, Lekha is excited to hear that her name is Avantika and she's Desi,...
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Central - Teen Graphic Novels
Y/GRAPH YANG
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Y/GRAPH YANG
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Aurora Hills - Teen Graphic Novels
Y/GRAPH YANG
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Y/GRAPH YANG
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Columbia Pike - Teen Graphic Novels
Y/GRAPH YANG
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Y/GRAPH YANG
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Original Series Now Available on Disney+
A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and
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Amina's voice volume 1
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF KHAN
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JF KHAN
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Aurora Hills - Kids Fiction
JF KHAN
1 available
JF KHAN
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF KHAN
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JF KHAN
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"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--
A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school. After her local mosque if vandalized, she is devastated. Her friend Soojin is talking about changing her name. Does Amina need to become more "American"...
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A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
10) A bit of Earth
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"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
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Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.
12) The bridge home
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF VENKA
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JF VENKA
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF VENKA
1 available
JF VENKA
1 available
Westover - Kids Fiction
JF VENKA
1 available
JF VENKA
1 available
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Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
13) Brother's keeper
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
14) City of fire
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City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 1
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Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
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Adventures of Sik Aziz volume 1
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Central - Kids Fiction
JF CHADD
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JF CHADD
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Central - Recently Returned
JF CHADD
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JF CHADD
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Courthouse - Kids Fiction
JF CHADD
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JF CHADD
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Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik holds the secret to eternal life. Turns out Sik is immortal but doesn't know it, and that's about to get him and the entire city into deep, deep trouble. Sik's not in this alone. He's got Belet, the adopted daughter of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war,...
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The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...
17) Count me in
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Glencarlyn - Kids Fiction
JF BAJAJ
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JF BAJAJ
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Westover - Kids Fiction
JF BAJAJ
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JF BAJAJ
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Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction - NEW
JF LIN
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JF LIN
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Shirlington - Kids Fiction
JF LIN
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JF LIN
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"Prince Jin is running out of time. He must find a monster companion before his thirteenth birthday or lose the throne completely. And that means travelling to the only place where monsters still live: the legendary, dangerous Whisper Island. But untold perils await Jin there. The magical creatures he seeks are not so easily swayed, and an even greater threat looms on the horizon-one that could threaten everything Jin hopes to achieve."--
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After being sold as a bride to a wealthy family that treats her poorly, eleven-year-old Jing, with the help of her animal friends, runs away.
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When his Chinese grandmother comes to live with his family in England, an eleven-year-old aspiring comic book artist has to share his bedroom with Nai Nai, who does not speak English, but they soon share a bond through math and art.