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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series...
2) Spork
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A humorous "multi-cutlery" tale about how Spork — half spoon, half fork — finally finds his place at the table. A charming story for anyone who has ever wondered about their place in the world.
3) My struggle
Author
Series
My struggle volume 1
Language
English
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A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?!" --
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
9) Pinduli
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the savannah. Includes backmatter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African savannah.
Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
12) Suki's kimono
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
Suki's grandmother visited the family over the summer and brought her a blue cotton kimono. Now Suki is determined to wear it on the first day of school -- no matter what anyone says.
16) Lucky duck
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When the pond community is threatened by a fox, Frank, the odd one out in a family of ducks, ventures into the dangerous forest alone on a quest to save his home, discovering both his courage and unique identity along the way.
17) Blossom and Bud
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Blossom and Bud, who live in Mr. Baxter's flower shop, are embarrassed and sometimes teased about their appearance, but her unusual height and his being a late-bloomer are perfect for one special occasion.
18) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has...
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Language
English
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"17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored"--
Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she's in therapy. She can't count the number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not "really"...
20) You can be
Author
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Active and entertaining characters drawn in the author's signature style will elicit giggles from kids and adults alike as they highlight all the weird and wonderful ways to be a kid. It is a gentle reminder to embrace diversity in yourself and others, to be kind, and above all, to be yourself."--Publisher's website.
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