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Series
Ancient magus' bride volume 19
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Philomela finally stops clasping her hands in passive prayer, and instead reaches them out for help. Meanwhile, Lizbeth gives in to blind obsession, merging with the forbidden Testament. Then a third, unexpected party joins the fray--a curse designed to kill a mother. All actors are in place on a chaotic stage, and when the goddess Morrígan finally makes her entrance, the story of one fraught family comes to an end.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult adaptation of the acclaimed bestselling Just Mercy, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so," Bryan Stevenson delves deep into the broken U.S. justice system, detailing from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most rejected and marginalized people. In this very personal work--proceeds...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested. In those intense months, generations battled and the world wobbled on the edge...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
Author
Series
Secrets (Melody Carlson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Haley's parents get divorced and she decides to live with her more laid-back dad, over her strict mother, and her life at a new school looks bright when Harris Stephens asks her out, but when he rapes her Haley has no one to turn to.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, many teenagers channeled their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. This collection of essays address the events of February 14, 2018, and continues the ongoing fight to end gun violence in the United States. -- adapted from back cover.
Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders....
4787) We are all that's left
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn about Puerto Rico's 65th Regiment, one of the US Army's most decorated regiments. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez shares the history of these soldiers and the discrimination they faced as they served their country during the largest court martial of the Korean War"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman, American Shoes portrays the breakdown of a society from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Native American story is as diverse and unique as each individual and as powerful as a common community connected by adversity, wisdom, spirituality, and destiny. Indigenous people are working to connect to their roots, counter stereotypes, and highlight the important contributions made by the nation's original inhabitants"--
4791) You don't live here
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the sudden death of her mother, Sasha moves in with her grandparents and realizes new truths about herself"--
Southern California. With her mother now dead and father out of the picture, Sasha Bloom moves in with her estranged grandparents. Sasha has no idea who she is anymore. Luckily, her grandparents are certain they know who she should be: A lawyer in the making. Ten pounds skinnier. In a socially advantageous relationship with a boy from...
4792) Followers
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a disastrous date results in her arrest, sixteen-year-old Lily Douglas is horrified to discover her mugshot is leaked on a gossip website. Lily is the niece of Whitney Paley, a Hollywood housewife and star of reality show Platinum Triangle, a soap-opera-style docu-series in the vein of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Hills, revolving around several glamorous families living in the Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills neighborhoods...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Bao Phi, Kaveh...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A summary of the 250 best books for LGBTQ teens, written by experts on the subject and addressed to teen book buyers. Identifying titles that address the sensitive and important topics of coming out, being out, and the search for community, this catalog spotlights the best gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, and questioning books written for teens. The authors cover fiction of all kinds, as well as graphic novels and general nonfiction aimed at readers...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. They quickly discovered that they faced as many obstacles in the armed forces as they did in everyday life. However, they refused to back down. They interrupted careers and left family, friends, and loved ones to venture into unknown and sometimes dangerous territory. They survived racial prejudice...
4796) My body in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
100 pages : black and white illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language. From a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works, to people who studied word origins and variations, this is a celebration of the adventurers who have explored language with a sense of curiosity and playfulness. -- Adapted from provided information and jacket....
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 201 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The first national graphic anthology of 10 U.S. immigrants and refugees illustrated by 10 immigrants and refugees from all over the world.
"A bold and unconventional collection of first-person stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States. Stanford scientist, deaf student, indigenous activist, Black entrepreneur; all immigrants and refugees; recount journeys from their home countries in ten vibrantly illustrated...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
85 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The death of a child is a tragedy. When the cause is suicide, the tragedy is compounded. It's not easy to read about, or talk about, and yet it is so crucial that young adults who feel the world closing in know that ending their lives is not the answer. There are people who can help. There are people who care. A thirteen year old should be enjoying life, planning her future, anticipating the joys to come. Instead, and sadly for all who knew her, Hailee...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
202 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging, identifying, and dismantling racism and injustice"--
We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it. Readers will follow a young Kendi as he learns...
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