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11361) Dawn raid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
11362) Tumble & fall
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With an asteroid set to strike Earth in just one week, three teens on an island off the Atlantic Coast wrestle with love, friendship, family, and regret as they decide how to live their final days.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 226 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Voting Rights War tells the story of the ongoing struggle to achieve voting equality through 100 years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. From Plessy v. Ferguson through today's conflicts around voter suppression, the book highlights the challenges facing African American voters and the work of the NAACP"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Curated by Jasmin Hernandez, the dynamic founder of Gallery Gurls, We Are Here presents the bold and nuanced work of Black and Brown visionaries transforming the art world, with a particular focus on queer, trans and nonbinary artists. This collection features fifty of the most influential voices in New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Striking photography of art, creative spaces, materials, and the subjects themselves is paired with intimate interviews...
11365) Mouse Rushmore
Author
Series
Commander in Cheese super special volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Squeakerton family of mice who live in the White House travels to Mount Rushmore to help investigate how items are being taken from the biggest mouse treasure room of all.
11367) Awesome adventures at the Smithsonian: the official kids guide to the Smithsonian Institution
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kid-friendly guidebook to three major Smithsonian Museums: The National Air and Space Museum, The National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of American History"--
11368) This adventure ends
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida -- especially not a group of friends so intense, so layered with private tragedies and secret codes, and so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and most serious person Sloane has ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the new neighborhood sweet shop receives a threatening note, super-sleuth Maggie Brooklyn is on the case. But saving the shop from sabotage would be easier if Maggie weren't so freaked out herself lately. Her new dog-sitting gig has her and her twin brother Finn hanging out in a mansion they're pretty sure is haunted.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama distanced himself from same-sex marriage, saying he believed marriage was "a sacred union" between a man and a woman. In 2012, he did just the opposite, proclaiming it was "important" for him to affirm the right of same-sex couples to marry. This dramatic about-face put the most powerful man in the world at the front of the battle for gay rights, giving LGBT Americans and their advocates an invaluable ally in...
11371) The grief keeper
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
11372) Leadership
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (approximately 18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights), to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders....
11373) The pearl hunter
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Kai's twin sister, Kishi, is stolen and killed by the legendary Ghost Whale, Kai sets out a long and dangerous adventure to bring her back to life"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm"--
"Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her grandparents' farm in Barbados, she returns home to Brooklyn and immediately makes herself known. Shirley kicks butt in school; she breaks her mother's curfew; she plays jazz piano instead of classical. And as a young adult, she fights against the injustice she sees around her, against...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
Many immigrants of color set out across continents, oceans, and borders, travelling to the United States in pursuit of opportunity: scientists, athletes and artists have succeeded, bringing fame to America.
11376) Me and Momma and Big John
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii. In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother, socialite Grace Fortescue, and husband, along with two sailors, kidnap one of the accused in an attempt to coerce a confession. When they are caught after killing him...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There's a crisis in Wakanda. The sacred Mound is being attacked by an evil cult, and Wakandans are growing angry with their new king, T'Challa, aka the Super Hero Black Panther. Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, is in over her head. Juggling the life of a Super Hero and the life of a normal girl is a full-time job. While taking some time off from the Guardians of the Galaxy, the fearsome warrior and swordswoman Gamora must set off on a dangerous mission....
11380) The art of running away
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she "broaden her horizons" and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
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