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2) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After spending years in a sexless marriage, Rena Martine sought out a therapist to "fix" her. Instead, the therapist empowered Rena to walk the path from shameful to shameless. Rena ended her vanilla marriage in favor of a kinky lifestyle, released the dictum of monogamy to embrace an open relationship structure, and dropped the perfectionist "cool girl" act to show up as her actual self on dates. But learning how to do all of that was a full-time...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg--Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology--interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors: The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia. A groundbreaking historical contribution,...
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