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Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
Author
Publisher
Topple Books/Little A
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"'What did you have? A boy or a girl?' Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl binary, disparities, or stereotypes from the day a child is born. With no wish to eliminate gender but rather gender discrimination, Kyl and her husband, Brent, ventured off on a parenting path less...
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father"--
A memoir by a woman who was sexually assaulted by her father explores how incest has formed her psychological conditioning, impacted her sexuality, and continues to complicate her adult perspectives and relationships.
7) Saving Sarah
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in healthcare that would limit her daughter's options. Sarah had been dying of cystic fibrosis since the day she was born. The disease quickly ravaged her lungs and little body bit-by-bit. Fragile and frail, she had only weeks to live, when her mom realized the reality of Sarah's situation: transplant laws, restricting access...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This important book tells the story of how ten thousand Jewish children were rescued out of Nazi Europe just before the outbreak of World War 2. They were saved by the Kindertransport - a rescue mission that transported the children (or Kinder) from Nazi-ruled countries to safety in Britain. --from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A joyful, inspiring informational picture book that introduces readers to eleven young people from around the world who didn't wait until they were grown to speak up about things that matter to them and change the world for the better.
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English
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"Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The author relates the remarkable story of his pianist mother, a child prodigy who escaped certain death when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, adopted a new identity, and came under the protection of a Nazi commander who heard her play.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Emerging largely out of psychoanalytic theory dating back to the end of the 19th century, the intact mind was later amplified in memoirs,...
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Language
English
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"A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love."--
As a boy with albinism, coping with the strain of parental neglect in a rural Philippine village, Talusan found childhood comfort in America from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public...
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Series
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously illustrated children's biography of Bill Gates, from his childhood through his days at Microsoft. This is the second book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series on notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Overview: Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter -- and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. She dreaded school, and began having anxiety attacks. In her thirteenth winter, she found the courage to confront her problems -- and was diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, Samantha's life began to change again....
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