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2) Say my name
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Children from different backgrounds introduce themselves and convey the meaning and history behind their names, sharing their cultures and ethnicities and emphasizing the importance of identity and saying names correctly"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with...
5) Every body
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite her monstrous appearance, Iris has never felt like she belongs in a mansion filled with kelpies and gorgons and unicorns. She longs to find a family. Unfortunately, she and her housemates are trapped in a "foster home for horrors" run by former paranormal investigator Mr. Halloway. So, when a human boy named Mathias breaks the house's sealing spell, Iris and her companions are set free upon the town of Dead End Springs. What Iris doesn't know...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
In a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
12-year-old Lei is forced to spend summers in Hawaiʻi with her grandma who is determined to make sure she knows all her family's moʻolelo--stories the kids back home donʻt care about or believe. But after insulting Pele, the Goddess of Fire, she learns just how real these legends are when the goddess takes her best friend and places a curse on her family--one that only Lei can lift.
10) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
11) The easy life
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 187 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the book, in which twelve-year-old Sophie discovers the abilities that have always caused her to stand out are because she is actually an elf and, after she is brought to Eternalia where she can hone her skills, Sophie learns she harbors certain secrets that others would kill to learn.
15) Return to Seoul
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
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