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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jo wants to paint all the wonderful things she loves. With a palette of red, yellow, and blue, Jo knows she can mix any colors together to create new ones. Her imagination takes flight as she explores painting with primary and by mixing her own secondary colors, each picture as beautiful as the last. But through her exploration of the colors of the rainbow, Jo finds that her favorite is a combination of them all: brown.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/ Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters--born to the same father but different mothers--struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, while also experiencing love for the first time. While Momoko, their father's first child--haunted by the loss of her kamikaze boyfriend and their final,...
Author
Series
Rainbow! (Sunny) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, including realistic, fantasy, and sci-fi stories by authors like Justina Ireland, Marieke Nijkamp, Alex Gino, and more!
A boyband fandom becomes a conduit to coming out. A former bully becomes a first-kiss prospect. One nonbinary kid searches for an inclusive athletic community after quitting gymnastics. Another nonbinary kid, who happens to...
A boyband fandom becomes a conduit to coming out. A former bully becomes a first-kiss prospect. One nonbinary kid searches for an inclusive athletic community after quitting gymnastics. Another nonbinary kid, who happens to...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Bond has grown up in her parents' hippie New Hampshire daycare, idolizing her blasphemous, ultra-fashionable sister, Éclair, chasing baby squirrels, and contemplating trees. Then the Satanic Panic hits -- the moral hysteria that shook the United States by its shoulders in the 80s and 90s. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey's parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations from dozens...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's easy to enjoy tasty, vibrant fresh vegetables and fruits all year round and every day with this vegan cookbook. Rebel Recipes' Niki Webster shares 40 simple and beautiful one-bowl vegan meals that are healthy, satisfying, and packed with flavor (plus vitamins and minerals, protein, and fiber), perfectly balanced for nutritious breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. Makes meal prep a breeze and is a great gift for the food lover in your...
Author
Series
Rainbow days volume 3
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With her puppy Coco's help, Zoya gives her room a glittery makeover.
10) Chasing rainbows
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The engines race towards what they perceive as the end of the rainbow to find the supposed treasure, but it always changes location whenever they get close. Once they actually reach it, Thomas and the others realize that sometimes, the real treasure can only be realized when the bigger picture is seen in full.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A four-leaf clover! A ladybug! A rainbow! It's a lucky day! Uni and the little girl want to see if there's really gold at the end of the rainbow. But then it rains. And they get lost in the forest! Can Uni, the little girl, and their friends still have a lucky day?"--Back cover.
12) Off the rails
Author
Series
Mihi ever after volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Mihi and her friends head back to the Rainbow Realm to save Princess Pat from a destructive quest.
Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
America's most beloved foursome -- the TikTok sensation @theoldgays -- share humorous, heartbreaking, shocking and profound tales from their generation, revealing who they are beyond TikTok and offering collective wisdom on a rainbow of topics as they prove age is just a number and getting older can be fabulously fun.
14) Pride families
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Families come in all different shapes and sizes, and each one is perfect! Come and celebrate what it means to be a PRIDE FAMILY in this beautifully illustrated book written by LGBTQIA+ author, Amie Taylor and Illustrated by Kaspa Clarke. LGBTQIA+ families come in all the colours of the rainbow. Perhaps you belong to a Pride family, or maybe you have a friend who belongs to a Pride Family? This educational children's book explores what these families...
15) Size wise
Author
Publisher
Buster Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Discover some of the biggest and smallest things in the natural world. This book explores the wonders of nature with beautiful, realistic illustrations at life size. Packed with amazing facts on everything from giant tigers and enormous elephants to miniscule crystals and tiny grains of sand, read on to discover more about the littlest and largest things on our astonishing planet.
16) Punycorn
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the villainous Sir Ogre unleashes his evil army on Carbuncle, a land of endless rainbows and sugar-sprinkled donuts, Punycorn, a small, athletically challenged unicorn, and a motley group of misfits are Carbuncle's only hope!"--
17) Rashid Johnson
Author
Series
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson. Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have labelled 'conceptual...
18) Chef in training
Author
Publisher
Kitchen Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The ultimate cookbook for kids with 100 easy & delicious recipes, cooking tips, a glossary and fun colorful illustrations. The perfect book to introduce kids to cooking. 100 delicious parent approved and kid tested recipes. With adult supervision those as young as 6 to 10 years of age will enjoy. Make a full day of meals, mouthwatering recipes are grouped into breakfast, lunch/dinner, and desserts and include Buttermilk Waffles, Easy Crepes with...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A scrumdiddlyumptious selection of treats inspired by Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Enter here and you'll find a world of fanciful treats, delectable chocolates, and candied confections as colorful as their creator. From the moment Mr. Wonka first somersaulted onto the red carpet in 1971, the magical, maniacal chocolatier has captivated audiences across the globe. Relive every incredible invention and memorable minute from the movies that brought...
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