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Iqbal 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. 2018The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon: a novel of contemporary China
By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015The 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. 2010My brother Charlie: a sister's story of autism
By Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, Shane Evans. 2010
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard…
to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism. For preschool-grade 2Odd socks
By Michelle Robinson, Rebecca Ashdown. 2016
Happy in our skin
By Fran Manushkin, Lauren Tobia. 2015
Dinosaurs 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. 1979Annie and the Old One
By Miska Miles, Peter Parnall, Patricia Miles Martin. 1985
Annie, a young Navajo girl, is upset thinking her grandmother could die. When her grandmother announces that she will return…
to the earth when the rug on the loom is finished, Annie tries to stop the weaving. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1971The Mrs. Dalloway reader
By Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose. 2003
Selection of critical essays exploring the evolution and impact of Virginia Woolf's 1925 classic novel Mrs. Dalloway and the companion…
piece, "Mrs. Dalloway's Party." Includes the two works, Woolf's journal entries and letters regarding the works' creation, and various writers' commentary. Includes editor's introduction. 2003The secret within
By Theresa Martin Golding, Theresa Golding. 2002
Thirteen-year-old Carly lives at the New Jersey shore where she dodges her abusive father by sneaking out at night to…
roam the boardwalk. When a stranger seeks to question her about mysterious packages she delivers for her father, Carly's neighbors suspect him of criminal activities and rally around to help her. For grades 6-9. 2002West of the Jordan: a novel (Bluestreak #19)
By Laila Halaby. 2003
Four Palestine-born female cousins experience individual problems growing up. Mawal stays in the Middle East following a traditional lifestyle. Soraya…
and Khadija, emigrés in California, are torn between cultures. Hala lives in Arizona but falls in love in Jordan. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2003This 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."A wolf called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel)
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño. 2019
"Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and…
his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a wolf named OR-7 (or Journey), this irresistible tale of survival invites listeners to experience and imagine what it would be like to be one of the most misunderstood animals on earth." -- Provided by publisherThe stuff of stars
By Marion Dane Bauer. 2018
A child's garden of verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2011
The day of the pelican
By Katherine Paterson. 2009
When the hostilities between Albanians and Serbs escalate in Kosovo, Meli's older brother Mehmet is temporarily captured. Fleeing to refugee…
camps, the Lleshi family then immigrates to Vermont, where, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, they face mistreatment for being Muslim. For grades 5-8. 2009Leaving Protection
By Will Hobbs. 2004
Port Protection, Alaska. Sixteen-year-old Robbie signs on with captain Tor Torsen to fish for salmon. Robbie realizes he's in danger…
when he discovers Torsen secretly searching for valuable metal plaques laid by early Russian explorers to claim Alaska. Then a storm hits, imperiling them both. For senior high readers. 2004The sun will come out
By Joanne Levy. 2021
"Twelve-year-old Bea Gelman and her best friend Frankie are planning the BEST SUMMER EVER at Camp Shalom-a sleep-away camp. But…
at the last minute, Frankie bows out, leaving painfully shy Bea on her own. Just talking to strangers causes Bea to break out into ugly, blotchy hives. As if the hives weren't bad enough, Bea gets pranked by a couple of girls in her cabin and is betrayed by someone she thought was a new friend. Bea has had enough! She decides to spend her summer in the infirmary far away from everything that's stressing her out. No more boys (including her crush, Jeremy), no more horrible mean girls, and no more fake friends! At the infirmary, Bea meets Harry, a boy facing challenges way more intense than stress breakouts. Inspired by Harry's strength and positive outlook, Bea decides to face her fears-in a big way." -- Provided by publisher