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English
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When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self. Staggerlee used to be Evangeline but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat...
302) The snow dog
Author
Series
Puppy patrol volume 26
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When mishaps abound on the set of a movie being filmed near King Street Kennels, Neil and Emily decide to investigate the cause.
303) The Brimstone Key
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
As the four friends known as the Grey Griffins begin school at Iron Bridge Academy, where children with special powers like theirs are trained to fight evil beings, rumors surface that a mad scientist known as the Clockwork King is back, and the Griffins must defeat his robotic war machines before total devastation is unleashed upon the world.
Author
Series
Stink files volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
As the new spokescat for Le Chat Gourmet cat food, former British feline spy Mr. Stink and his humans travel to France, where he revisits his childhood home and uncovers secrets about his past.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller of the same name tells the long forgotten story of the powerful Oglala Lakota chief, Red Cloud. At the height of Red Cloud's power, the Sioux claimed control of vast parts of the west. But as the United States rapidly expanded, the country brutally forced the Indians off their lands. Fighting for the survival of the Sioux way of life, Red Cloud successfully secured the loyalty of thousands...
307) Jazmin's notebook
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Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Jazmin, an African American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life. Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings--a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her notebook with laughs, anger, and hope....
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Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Clara Stahlbaum receives a beautiful yet mysterious egg-shaped box from her late mother, she wonders what it means. Searching for answers, Clara soon finds herself in a magical world, the Four Realms, where she meets a host of colorful and curious new friends and discovers the fascinating link between the Realms and her dear mother. But when she learns that the Realms are in danger of being destroyed, Clara vows to help. Years earlier, Clara's...
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The 1870 passage of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, that no man could be denied the right to vote, was a big step forward in the civil rights movement. However, nearly 100 years later, most African Americans in the South still could not vote. In March 1965, a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state Capitol in Montgomery was planned to demand voting rights. But the marches only made it six blocks before they were stopped and brutally attacked...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous body parts range from medical to macabre. Carlyn Beccia explores the misadventures of noteworthy body parts through history and uses them as springboards for exploring topics such as forensics, DNA testing, brain science, organ donation, and cloning. The engaging, conversational tone of the text, the wonderfully...
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