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Americanized: rebel without a green card
By Sara Saedi. 2018
Television show writer and novelist recounts her teenage years in the 1990s, and reveals how she discovered that her family…
had entered the United States as undocumented immigrants. Provides a humorous account of balancing teen angst with trying to become an American citizen. For senior high and older readers. 2018Iqbal and his ingenious idea: how a science project helps one family and the planet (CitizenKid)
By Rebecca Green, Elizabeth Suneby. 2018
When his mother is forced to cook indoors due to the monsoon season in Bangladesh, young Iqbal decides the school…
district's science fair is the perfect time to create a stove that doesn't produce smoke and harmful fumes. For grades 2-4. 2018Don't cosplay with my heart
By Cecil Castellucci. 2018
Upset with her unraveling life, Edan escapes into the world of comics and cosplays as Gargantua from Team Tomorrow. Things…
start to get better after she meets Kirk, a boy from school, who gets her into the sold-out Angeles Comic Con. For senior high and older readers. 2018Alexander y el dia terrible, horrible, espantoso, horroroso
By Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz. 1989
Alexander se despierta para encontrar chicle en su pelo y que no hay un premio en su caja de cereal.…
A medida que su día va empeorando, Alejandro piensa en salir corriendo a Australia hasta que su madre le asegura que todo el mundo tiene días como éste, incluso en Australia. Para los grados K-3The great Alaska adventure!: Junior Explorer Series Book 2
By Jeff Corwin. 2010
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010Bedhead
By Margie Palatini, Jack E. Davis. 2003
It was BIG. It was BAD. It was ... BEDHEAD! No doubt about it, Oliver's having a very bad hair…
day. His parents and sister try to help. They push, they pull, they spritz and they spray; they goop, they glop, and they mousse. But Oliver's hair is still way out of control. And today's class picture day! What's a boy to do? For grades K-3Blueberry summers: growing up at the lake
By Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sOdd socks
By Michelle Robinson, Rebecca Ashdown. 2016
Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent
By Lauren Child. 2005
Award-winning author Child creates an irreverent story about a young accounting genius who must save his wealthy family's fabulous estate,…
and learns the true value of money and the dividends of happiness. For grades K-3Happy in our skin
By Fran Manushkin, Lauren Tobia. 2015
The adventures of Beanboy
By Lisa Harkrader. 2012
When aspiring comic book artist Tucker MacBean enters a contest to create a new sidekick for his favorite superhero, Beanboy,…
he's got a lot riding on whether or not he wins. Tucker hopes that stardom might make him more popular, and he wants to give the prize, a college scholarship, to his hardworking but exhausted single mom. For grades 4-7Dinosaurs in your backyard: The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!
By Alan Barnard, Hugh Brewster. 2009
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009Sea glass: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1970 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
By Laurence Yep. 2002
California, 1970. After leaving San Francisco for a small town, Craig, a Chinese American eighth-grader, finds it hard to fit…
in. He also has difficulty pleasing his father, who wants him to excel in sports. For grades 6-9. 1979On my way (A 26 Fairmount Avenue Book Ser. #3)
By Tomie DePaola, Tomie Depaola. 2001
The author-illustrator continues his childhood recollections in this sequel to Here We All Are (DB 50343). He recounts the family's…
concern when his baby sister got pneumonia, their trip to the 1939 World's Fair, his dance recital, and starting first grade. For grades 2-4. 2001Marvin Redpost: kidnapped at birth? (A Stepping Stone Book(TM) #Bk. 1)
By Louis Sachar, Neal Hughes. 1992
When Marvin Redpost learns that a king is looking for his missing son who was kidnapped at birth, Marvin begins…
to wonder if he is Prince Robert. He too is nine years old and has red hair and blue eyes. His mother agrees to help him find out the truth. For grades 2-4Marigold and Grandma on the town (I Can Read Bks.)
By Stephanie Calmenson, Mary Chalmers. 1994
Marigold spends the day in town with her grandmother. They buy Marigold a hat, learn to make friends with the…
wind, go out to lunch, and get their pictures taken. For grades K-3Evening class
By Maeve Binchy, Dennis Rodman, Michael Silver. 1996
For many people in Dublin, life is the same day after day, but that changes dramatically for forty-eight-year old Aidan…
Dunne, when he is passed over for a school principal position. He and Nora O'Donoghue, just returned from twenty-six years in Italy, begin a series of evening classes teaching Italian. Together, they help many other Dubliners make transitions, too. Some strong languageHop on Pop (Beginner Books(R))
By Seuss, Dr Seuss. 1963
This earth of mankind
By Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane. 1991
In 1898, Java is a race- and caste-dominated Netherlands Indies society. Minke, a Javanese student at a Dutch high school,…
falls in love with mixed-blood Annelies. He is enthralled with her family's story: her belligerent father; her concubine mother, who runs the family business; and her resentful brother and step-brother. Eventually the unrest in both the land and the family wreak havoc on Minke's own life. Some descriptions of sexIn these hills
By Ralph Beer. 2000
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered…
his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt "to fathom the place where we live... to decipher who we are."