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"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence. "As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig--resulting in chaos and worse, murder. At the center are six Muslim teens - six patriots, six strangers, and six suspects. An old soul caught in...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. They can hit every note of all the top pop and Broadway hits, but emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and...
45) Ice and stone
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"When two women are brutally murdered in northern California, their deaths are the latest atrocities in a surge of violence targeting Indigenous women in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, local officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, and they soon join the ranks of other unsolved homicides, quickly forgotten by law enforcement. Private Investigator Sharon McCone knows better, and so does the organization known as Crimes Against...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
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English
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
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2021.
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English
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Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...
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A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone...
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English
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"Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of two identities. On paper, he seems to have it all: He's beloved by his students, popular with his coworkers, and the pride and joy of a mother who emigrated from the Congo to the UK in search of a better life. But behind closed doors, he's been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can't address the injustices he sees raging before him--from his relentless efforts...
51) The Eureka Trail
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Avalon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
52) Grand opening
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
53) Elevation
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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This is an extraordinarily moving novel -- one you will not easily forget. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a...
56) Freedom songs
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him
57) The owl's song
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1974
Physical Desc
144 p ; cm.
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English
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Billy White Hawk leaves his Idaho reservation in search of a better life in California only to find hatred and hostility there that he finds increasingly difficult to cope with.
58) A perfect snow
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 22 cm
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Ben must deal with a violent white-supremacy hate group in his small Montana town because his father and his friends are involved with it.
59) My father's scar
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
204 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
As he enters into his first relationships as a gay man, a college freshman recalls the aching loneliness of life with his alcoholic physically abusive father in a community prejudiced against homosexuals.
60) The Sky blues
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal - but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker. This moves his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.
Sky is openly gay but under the radar in insular Rock Ledge, Michigan. He decides to make a splashy Promposal, but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker. His classmates turn Sky's thirty-day promposal countdown into...
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