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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when facing the unimaginable." -- Publisher annotation.
Author
Publisher
Android Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Long after a climate catastrophe, when a utopian future faces an unearthed evil from our present, Gentian "Gen" Lightworth and her friends in the night-living town of Glimmerbight must stop the past from repeating itself by using all their wits and talents...and perhaps a bit of magic.
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Author
Publisher
Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chilefy color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
Author
Publisher
Cune Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
While in Israel, sixteen-year-old Melody Sullivan navigates the grief of her mother's death and the trauma of a sexual assault, but when she travels to Palestine to see her best friend Yasmina, she is forced to face her internal demons and the external realities of war and occupation.
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil,...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
They were six normal teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting...until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: their parents are the secret criminal society known as the Pride! For years, the Pride controlled all criminal activity in Los Angeles, ruling the city with an iron fist...and now, with their true natures exposed, the Pride will take any measures necessary to protect their organization - even if it means...
Author
Publisher
Philadelphia
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Throughout my life I have been told directly and indirectly that dyslexia is found in particular people... [In fact] dyslexia can be found in someone like me. It isn't just 'okay' but something to be proud of. This book has been written because I want people to know that dyslexia can be found in people of every colour, creed, or circumstance. In this book, rising star entrepreneur Onyinye Udokporo shares her story of growing up dyslexic in a society...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
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