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2) Avalon High
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Author
Language
English
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American Indian Youth Literature Award
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Nov 2023 - Native American History Month
Poetry: Books for Teens
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Nov 2023 - Native American History Month
Poetry: Books for Teens
Description
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this lively photo essay, readers get to know students who are pursuing their dreams of a brighter future, and of teachers who are devoted to improving people's lives, from the arid plains of southern Afghanistan to the rain forests of Guatemala.
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 3
Publisher
Branches
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.
10) My princess boy
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A four-year-old boy loves dressing up in princess clothing.
11) Say something
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A child who never says anything when other children are being teased or bullied finds herself in their position one day when jokes are made at her expense and no one speaks up.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Nurse Penny loses her smile, three of her young patients provide encouragement, which leads to an impromptu school assembly at which Nurse Penny educates students about head lice, with which she, herself, is afflicted.
15) Teacher
Author
Series
Publisher
QEB
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Describes a teacher's day and introduces readers to some of the other employees at school.
18) Not in room 204
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A teacher tells the children in her class to talk to an adult if they are being sexually abused.
19) Dare!
Author
Series
Weird volume 2
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jayla feels threatened by her classmate Sam, who has bullied her in the past for her "nerdy" love of astronomy and stars. Sam is now bullying Jayla's friend Luisa, and she enlists Jayla to participate. Jalya reluctantly joins in but soon realizes it is wrong. With the help of caring adults and friends, Jayla comes to sympathize with Luisa and finds the courage to dare to stand up to Sam and put an end to the bullying.
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