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Abby in between volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Abby McAdams grapples with changes in her home life, her body, and her perspective on the world as she navigates fourth grade.
3) Gather
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends,...
5) Cipotes
Author
Publisher
Ramon Amaya Amador
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Cipotes cuenta la historia de dos ni�nos sumidos en la pobreza y sin hogar que se ven obligados a madurar, para sobrevivir a las adversidades. Se muestra una Honduras corrupta y populista donde los poderosos abusan de su infuencia acorralando a los despose�idos; y donde se enaltecen el esp�iritu de superaci�on por medio de la organizaci�on, el trabajo y la dignidad.
Cipotes tells the story of two children plunged into poverty and homelessness...
Author
Language
English
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Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"-- Provided by publisher.
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...
Author
Publisher
Puck, Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
Ivy Aberdeen's world is upended when a tornado destroys her family home and the six Aberdeens must squeeze into a small hotel room. As if life wasn't complicted enough, Ivy begins to develop a crush on another girl and feels that she has no one to talk to about her feelins.
Author
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Davids is a probationary firefighter working his first week out of the academy. For Charles, quietly battling his lack of confidence is a daily challenge as his new officers coach him on life as a New York City firefighter. The men love to tease and prank the new guy, but when it comes to drilling and training, they're clear that the job is no joke. As is said in the fire service: 'let no man's ghost return to say my training let me down.'...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"June Papers is a twenty-eight-year-old MFA grad with a felony record, "the classic young, Black and gifted American misfit." He's also a substitute teacher. He's also homeless. With dreams of becoming a writer, June endures a host of trials and dilemmas as he reluctantly realizes mentoring and teaching might actually be a path forward for him"--
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