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2) Skin again
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Painter and Ugly, two sled dogs who are inseparable best friends, are put on different teams for the Junior Iditarod, but they manage to find their way back to one another for the big race.
Author
Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Zahra sees the world in vivid colors. When kids at school tell her she's different because of the color of her skin, she doesn't know how to feel, but her mother tells her to feel proud.
5) Ice island
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tatum's dream of competing in the grueling 1,049-mile Iditerod Trail Sled Dog Race may be at an end when she becomes lost in a freak snowstorm during a training run on Alaska's remote Santa Ysabel Island.
6) Into white
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn't know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were . . . different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be 'anything but black.' Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?" -- Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...
8) Laika
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the journey of Laika, the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This story blends fact and fiction as it intertwines three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.
9) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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