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"Francis loves learning new words. At school, when her class is reviewing words that begin with the letter "F," someone sneers "Fat, like Francis." Francis always thought "fat" was a warm word—like snuggling with Mama or belly rubs for her puppy. But now "fat" feels cold, and Francis feels very small. After school, Baba takes Francis to the park. She chooses the bench instead of the swing set, and gets very quiet. But when Baba uses the word...
2) Jingle bells
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"Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh o'er the fields we go, laughing all the way ... Ride along with a girl, a boy, their pony, and a mischievous dog as they travel to Grandma's house. With playful animals in their path, their journey gets a bit sidetracked. But soon enough they arrive at Grandma's--where an unexpected visitor fills them with holiday cheer!"
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Life is tough for twelve-year-old orphan Adia. Her aunt and uncle believe she's an ogbanje, a demon-possessed child that brings misfortune wherever they go, and Adia can't disagree, especially when she suddenly manifests mysterious powers that she can't control, causing an earthquake in her village. So when Adia is offered a kitchen apprenticeship at the faraway Academy of Shamans, she flees with nothing but a pouch of change, her cat Bubbles, and...
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From preschool to higher education and everything in between, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States. The overarching nonfiction narrative follows author Tiffany Jewell from early elementary school through her time at college, unpacking the history of systemic racism in the American educational system...
7) Savage City
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I'm not the princess they think I am.
I fell out of the sky and into a new world only to be attacked by a monster.
The people here think I'm the daughter of the Nimali dragon king.
When the king assigns me a healer, I learn the truth of this place. A war between shifter clans is raging. Bloody battles rage between the Nimali and the Fai.
The healer hates me for who he thinks I am. He's a Fai captive in this land.
But a string pulls me to him...
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Splish Splash Water is for children to learn the importance of water in their lives and for the World. If there were no water, there could be no life on Earth. Water is the only matter that exists naturally in three forms on Earth solid (ice), liquid (water), and vapor (gas). The amount of water on Earth never changes it just changes where it is. When water turns to vapor with help from the sun it forms a cloud and when the cloud moves with help from...
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Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
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Claire Kann's If It Makes You Happy is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl learning to embrace her cultural and sexuality identity. Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland - her Granny's diner, Goldeen's, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous 50's inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her...
11) Beastly Kingdom
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To save my clan, I'm forced to marry my enemy.The prophecy tells of danger coming for our shifter clans. Something far worse than the war between the Fai and Nimali.The only solution is to bond our clans to avoid our destruction and ensure peace.Thirty days is all I get. I will ruin the Nimali from the inside. The tiger inside me is lying in wait.Except my new husband is not the man I thought he was. To save my kingdom, I'll marry the woman who tried...
12) Love Is Powerful
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A little girl carries a big message - and finds it thrillingly amplified by the rallying crowd around her - in an empowering story for the youngest of activists. Mari raised her sign for everyone to see. Even though she was small, and the crowd was very big, and she didn't think anyone would hear, she yelled out. Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. What are we making, Mama?" she asks. A message...
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "forty acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic forty acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from.
In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma),...
14) Brutal Fortress
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To become the queen my people need, I'll have to risk everything
As the Nimali princess, I'm expected to become a dragon shifter.
I've already failed once, another failure threatens my life and the fate of everyone I care about.
But the world outside my pampered existence is deadly. All my careful plans fall apart when I'm attacked by vicious creatures.
The man who saves my life transforms into an impossible beast. His power is beyond belief....