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Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken? Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they're in a car accident. Devon is paralyzed for life, while James goes on to live the dream. For the Paynes, the tremulous repercussions of that evening never settled. Over the course of a decade, Devon decides to visit...
44) Queen bitch
Author
Publisher
A King Production
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With the cards stacked against her, Precious has to gamble it all and use the only weapon she has left--her street savvy brains to outwit the most dangerous enemies she's encountered yet. In this game where the winner takes all, who will come out on top--the mentor or the protégé? Because there can only be one Queen Bitch"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Absolutely Alfie volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After seven-year-old Alfie discovers that her best friend may not be inviting her or several other girls to her sleepover, arguments break out in the class, until Alfie's mother comes up with an idea to help everyone feel better.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Evelyn Del Rey es la mejor amiga de Daniela. Hacen todo juntos e incluso viven en apartamentos gemelos frente al otro: Daniela con su mami y su h̀mster, y Evelyn con su mami, papi y gato. Pero no despǔs de hoy, no despǔs de que Evelyn se mude. Hasta entonces, las nįas juegan en medio de las cajas de mudanza hasta que llega el momento de despedirse, haciendo promesas de mantenerse en contacto, porque saben que su amistad siempre ser̀ especial....
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Grammy Award-winning artist Kelly Rowland and educator Jessica McKay have crafted a lyrical celebration of working moms everywhere and a soothing story for their children. As a mother gets ready to go to work, first she works on building the world for her child. Because it can sometimes be hard to be separated during the day, Mom collects some simple words that she and her child can repeat whenever they are missing each other or feeling overwhelmed:...
52) Company: stories
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
Keyana's latest big idea is to have backyard movie soiree for all her relatives! When her twin cousins' fighting knocks over the projector movie night seems heading for disaster-- until Keyana comes up with an even better idea.
58) The unsettled
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
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