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82) Endangered
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Ape quartet volume 1
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English
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Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
84) Atty at law
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Atticus "Atty" Peale fights for the rights of animals, copes with having a racially-mixed family in small-town Alabama, navigates the social scene of middle school, and determines to help her father prove Jethro Gersham innocent of murder.
85) Full cicada moon
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In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
86) Riot
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In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
87) Stone Field
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In this loose retelling of "Wuthering Heights" set in Missouri during the Civil War, when free-spirited seventeen-year-old Catrina discovers a mysterious young man with amnesia on her family's sorghum farm, they fall passionately in love, scandalizing intolerant family members and neighbors.
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Marisol McDonald volume 1
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Multicultural Booklist
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
Multicultural Booklist
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
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"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
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Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 2
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English
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While searching for more clues to the murder of his circus performer parents, talented magician Danny Woo follows the Mysterium circus to Barcelona, where he discovers a traitor and a dangerous woman in green.
91) Whale talk
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A varsity letter jacket: it's exclusive, nearly unattainable, revered...and everything that's screwed up about Cutter High, as far as T.J. is determinded to have the Cutter All Night Mermen - the unlikeliest swim team a high school has ever seen - earn letter jackets of their own.
94) The colors of us
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Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
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Erin Powers navigates growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee being raised by a white, closeted lesbian mother. Based on the author's experience. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee through the stories of two girls on two different timelines bridged by a mysterious portal.
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Unusual chickens volume 2
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English
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Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, relates her adventures as two new unusual chickens come to the farm.
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Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
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