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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Biologist Rob Dun grew up listening to stories of the Mississippi River, how it flooded his grandfather's town of Greenville, swallowing up the townsfolk and leaving behind a muddy wasteland. Years later, Dunn discovered the cause of the great deluge. The Army Corps of Engineers had tried to straighten the river, cutting off its meandering oxbows in order to allow for the easy passage of boats. They had tried to bend nature to their own design. But...
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Soundararajan ties discrimination toward the Dalit in South Asia and America to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. This book includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"--
45) The Pack
Author
Series
Pack (Lisi Harrison) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Attending a boarding school for girls with animal powers, new girl Sadie joins the Pack-a group of 'it' girls-and is consumed by social drama until someone starts to threaten them in an attempt to tear the Pack apart"--
Author
Publisher
DW Books, a division of the Daily Wire
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It's racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It's racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It's racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to "systemic racism." How else explain why blacks are overrepresented...
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume Prequel
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Four betas and their alpha--Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Claire Lyons--"clique" at the New Year's Yves party.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When male students from Briarwood join the all-girl Octavian Country Day at the beginning of eighth grade, Massie makes a rule that none of the girls on the Pretty Committee can have anything to do with them, trying to protect the girls' social status.
Author
Publisher
Repeater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how [the] choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers -- including Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis, Jason Molina, Barbara Loden, and many more -- and the melancholia that ensues when the working-class subject leaves their origins to "become someone," only to find that they lose themselves in the process.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While on a seventh-grade school trip, Claire attempts to mend her relationship with Cam while Massie seeks to maintain her high social standing and receive her first kiss.
Author
Series
Thinkcities volume 1
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?" This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird's-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree's trunk, back into the leaves and branches. It discusses the problems that city trees face such as the abundance of concrete, poor soil and challenging light...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, Ziwe combines pop-culture commentary and personal stories, which grapple with her own (mis)understanding of identity. From a hilarious case of mistaken identity via a jumbotron to a terrifying fight-or-flight encounter in...
54) Click
Author
Series
Click volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Smile and Real Friends comes a debut graphic novel about friendship and finding where you "click" in middle school.
Olive wants to get in on the act . . .
. . . Any act!
Olive "clicks" with everyone in the fifth grade—until one day she doesn't. When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without...
Olive wants to get in on the act . . .
. . . Any act!
Olive "clicks" with everyone in the fifth grade—until one day she doesn't. When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews, emergency rooms, consulting jobs, and family life"--
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A bet about wardrobes between the wealthy Massie and middle-class Claire results in a testing of old friendships, a forging of new ones, and a change for the student body at Octavian Country Day School.
59) Making Americans: stories of historic struggles, new ideas, and inspiration in immigrant education
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Told through key historical moments, current experiments to improve immigrant education and profiles of immigrant students, this groundbreaking book will reshape how we all think about nurturing one of America's greatest assets-the newcomers who enrich this country with their energy, talents and drive.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Friendships are tested when Alicia, a seventh grader at Octavian Country Day School, decides to break away from the exclusive clique led by her best friend to start her own group.
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