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Ms. LaGrange is strange!: My weird school, book 8 (My Weird School Ser. #8)
By Dan Gutman. 2005
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her…
best to get A. J. and the other students to eat healthy foods. For grades 2-4. 2005Can you hear me?: how to connect with people in a virtual world
By Nick Morgan. 2018
Guide to effective online communication addresses problems inherent in the virtual world, including the lack of feedback, empathy, control, emotion,…
and connection and commitment. Discusses specific techniques for emails, conference calls, webinars, chat sessions, and sales. 2018Conspiracy: Nixon, Watergate, and Democracy's Defenders
By P. O’Connell Pearson. 2020
Author of Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America (DB 98293), explores President Nixon's contentious…
time in office, the Watergate scandal, and the people who helped protect our Constitution. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2020Haben: the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
By Haben Girma. 2019
The autobiography of the first deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School. Girma describes her childhood, world travels, development of a…
text-to-braille communication system, and time at Harvard Law, as well as the ways she uses her talents to advocate for those with disabilities. 2019The autobiography of Malcolm X
By Malcolm X. 1992
The African American religious leader and activist (1925-1965) describes his boyhood in Lansing, Michigan; street life in Harlem; conversion to…
the Black Muslim movement while imprisoned for robbery; and evolution into a high-profile spokesman for black dignity, power, and separatism. Foreword by Alex Haley. 1964Firsts: coming of age stories by people with disabilities
By Belo Cipriani. 2018
Eleven essays by authors with disabilities recounting various first experiences. In "Life with Lexie," Heidi Johnson-Wright recalls going off to…
college and dealing with her first non-family member caregiver. Cathy Beaudoin shares her challenges as a newly blind PhD candidate in "I Did It. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018My heart is not blind: on blindness and perception
By Michael Nye. 2019
Profiles of forty-five people who are blind or have low vision, including Larry Johnson, a longtime DJ in Mexico, and…
Michael Hingson, a 9/11 survivor who wrote about his lifesaving guide dog in Thunder Dog (DB 73300). Natalie Watkins, who has retinitis pigmentosa, is profiled twice, six years apart. 2019The way of the wiseguy: the FBI's most famous undercover agent cracks the mob mind
By Joseph D. Pistone. 2004
Donnie Brasco was the name assumed by FBI agent Joseph Pistone in order to infiltrate the mafia. He describes what…
the gangsters he worked with were really like -- a depiction very different from that seen in movies and on television. Strong language. 2004Child of our time: a young girl's flight from the Holocaust
By Ruth L. David. 2003
Ruth Oppenheimer was living a comfortable life in Germany in the 1930s. Then Hitler came to power. The family's cigar…
factory was taken over; the children forced out of school. After Ruth's father is arrested, the ten-year-old is sent to England as part of the Kindertransport. In England, Ruth still faced prejudice and oppression. 2003Greek to me: adventures of the comma queen
By Mary Norris. 2019
The author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (DB 82577) details her love of Greece and…
its language. Discusses the role of Greek in both written and spoken English as well as the author's encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine, and Greek men. Bestseller. 2019About us: essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Peter Catapano. 2019
Sixty-one essays originally published as part of the New York Times Disability column. The essays are organized into the topics…
of justice, belonging, working, navigating, coping, love, family, and joy. Essayists have physical, motor, sensory, and cognitive differences. 2019Because internet: understanding the new rules of language
By Gretchen McCulloch. 2019
A linguist examines how the Internet and our increasing use of digital communication is transforming language faster than ever. Discusses…
the forces that shape language, how early social Internet experiences influence capitalization and punctuation, the role of emoji, the fractured language of many memes, and more. Strong language. 2019Nine short stories set in Hawaii featuring the nuanced voices and interior lives of housewives, mechanics, cabdrivers, aging hippies, and…
bargirls. The worlds of Pak's Hawaiians, Asian locals, and the haoles sometimes intersect and collide and other times remain parallel, but each world is haunted by the past. Whether Pak evokes shadows of World War II, the Vietnam War, the radical 60's, or the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan in Korea, the larger historical context looms ominously in the background. Contains explicit descriptions of sexFree lunch
By Rex Ogle. 2019
Author recounts his childhood experiences of hunger, poverty, and abuse in the sixth grade. Grounded in the immediacy of physical…
hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, the author notes a more profound hunger--that of a child for his parents' love. Violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2019With the fire on high
By Elizabeth Acevedo. 2019
Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing her senior year, raising her two-year-old daughter, and following her…
dream of working as a chef. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019Strega Nona: an old tale (A Strega Nona Book)
By Tomie DePaola. 1975
In the town of Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady known as Strega Nona, who owned…
a magic pot. One day, when Strega Nona went visiting, her helper, Big Anthony, almost destroyed the village by disobeying Strega Nona's warning not to touch the pot. For grades K-3Like a love story
By Abdi Nazemian. 2019
New York City, 1989. Three teens discover their sexuality, romance, AIDS activism, and the revolutionary act of living life to…
the fullest in the face of impossible odds. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2019Inconspicuous consumption: the environmental impact you don't know you have
By Tatiana Schlossberg. 2019
New York Times science writer discusses four areas of environmental impact: the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel. Examines…
complexities and frustration of living in a carbon-intensive society and provides advice for reducing impact and making informed choices. 2019Vanishing fleece: adventures in American wool
By Clara Parkes. 2019
Knitwear designer chronicles the process of turning wool into garments after buying a bale of wool from a sheep breeder.…
Discusses the harvesting of wool, the state of wool mills in North America, production decisions, the dyeing process, and designing knitwear. 2019God land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
By Lyz Lenz. 2019
Combination of memoir regarding her personal life and faith journey and an exam of the role of faith in middle…
America in the wake of the 2016 election. Topics discussed include her desire for a stable faith community, decreasing church attendance, her divorce, and profiles of faith communities. 2019