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7th Sigma
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Metal-eating ‘bugs’ or not, Kimble is staying in the Territory when his dad is flighted out on medical emergency. No way is Kimble going to join that abusive old...
Picture Book
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All the Way to America: The Story of A Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
And round and round and round we go....our story begins with Michele Iaccarino, great-grandfather of the author/illustrator of this book, living on a farm in Sorrento, Italy. His...
Historical fiction
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Alligator Bayou
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Tallulah, Louisiana in 1899 was a time of racial strife. Black and white where segregated and the Sicilians belonged to neither group. Brought to Louisiana to work in the...
Picture Book
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Angel Child, Dragon Child
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" 'Why are you so mean to me,' wondered Ut. 'Because you are different. You wear funny clothes and you talk with funny words,' answered Raymond." And there you...
Historical fiction
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Belladonna
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Beautiful circus horse Belladonna has been sold away, and her acrobat-rider is desperate to find her. Thomas has abandoned school after months of trying to make sense of letters...
Westerns
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If you mention the "Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862", most will think you mean the later 1876 conflict of Custer and the Battle Of The Little Big Horn". Although...
Realistic Fiction
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Bitter Melon
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Achingly painful, heartbreakingly sad, yet full of youthful promise and resilience, Cara Chow's Bitter Melon tells the anguished story of Frances and her Chinese born mother who berates and...
Realistic Fiction
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Border Town: Crossing the Line
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
Fabi is excited that her little sister will attend her high school this year, but worries when Alexis won’t listen to the rules that keep them safe in their...
Historical fiction
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Bread and Roses, Too
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It's 1912, and Mamma is on strike against the big mill owner in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The crowds march and Mamma carries a sign that says, "WE WANT BREAD AND...
Action / Adventure
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Crossing the Wire
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Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores is faced with a tough reality when he realizes he is going to have to be the man of the family and try to cross from...
Realistic Fiction
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Cuba 15
Reluctant Reader
Violet has just turned fifteen. Among Latin Americans, this birthday is a milestone, and is marked by the quinceanera, a huge celebration -- complete with the guest of...
Historical fiction
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Dragonwings
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Eight-year-old Moon Shadow comes from China to join his father, whom he has never met, in San Francisco in 1903. A tragic event forces them to leave the security...
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Dream Something Big
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Welcome to 1921 and the working-class neighborhood of Watts, California, a community blessed by blacks, whites, Latinos, Japanese, Germans, Greeks, Jews and one Italian named Sam. Sam had sailed...
Science Fiction
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The Eleventh Plague
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
Always moving, Stephen learns survival skills from his dad and granddad as they travel through ruined America. Searching for salvage on the way to the traders’ gathering, they stay...
Graphic Novel
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Gold Mountain by Canadian activist, architect and urban ecologist David HT Wong is an ambitious attempt to portray the 100+ years of of Chinese in North America in...
Historical fiction
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Esty's Gold
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Surely the potato blight won’t hurt Esty’s family, her papa being agent for the landowner, right? But the famine in 1840s Ireland cuts deep, and 12 year old Esty...
Historical fiction
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The Fire Horse Girl
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Small village, small minds, convinced that Jade Moon’s Fire Horse birth sign will curse anyone foolish enough to marry her. She will have to travel far from this small...
Sports
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Fiction/Non-Fiction
Reluctant Reader
That's quite an arm you've got there, son, the police officer says to Michael Arroyo after he throws a baseball with unerring accuracy to literally bring down a petty...
Picture Book
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Hiromi's Hands
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This is a story about a family that left all they knew in Japan, land of tradition, and began a new life in the United States. Father came...
Realistic Fiction
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The story is told in first person narration by Amy Lim. Her father came to the United States from Cambodia. His pregnant wife came later and the family lived...
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