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We Look Different, but We're the Same serves as a colorful and engaging read for children, focusing on topics such as race and diversity, but in a way that young readers can relate. Children have a beautiful innocence that, at some point, is exposed to the sometimes-cruel reality of this world. As they start noticing that we may look different from each other, it helps remind them that deep down we are all the same and should be treated equally. Ultimately,...
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The Charity Series is a creation of Heaven's Divine Kiss. It is comprised of nine books that address various topics which can be challenging for young people to deal with, and adults often find difficult to discuss with them. Topics include Abuse, Abandonment, Adoption, Bullying, Black Lives Matter, Death of a Loved One, Loneliness, and Low Self-Esteem. This book of the series is about a young girl named Raven who struggles to accept her dark complexion....
23) Caleb's Wars
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A powerful novel about growing up black on the World War II home front in the Jim Crow South. Caleb lives in a world at war. War news is on everyone's mind, and Caleb's older brother, Randall, is likely to be sent overseas. The presence of German POWs in Caleb's rural Georgia community is a constant reminder of what's happening in Europe. Locked in a power struggle with his domineering father and fighting to keep both his temper and his self-respect...
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ALL IT TAKES…Shame.That's what Tarek and his family have to live with. They don't belong in Myanmar. He and the other Rohingya are parasites. They're foreigners, unwanted.At least, that's what the government wants everyone to believe.But Tarek's family can't leave the life they struggled to build for themselves. Myanmar is their rightful home. Even if they have to live with the ridicule and discrimination, at least they have a home. At least they...
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Blues and Yellows just don't mix, and that's how it's always been. No one remembers why. But then comes the day Midnight Blue takes a tumble along the road. His friends Navy and Powder Blue don't even stop to help! It's only when a Yellow comes along that everything changes forever.
This creative story is sure to prompt rich conversations, encouraging new ways of seeing our neighbors and ourselves. A note for parents and educators is included.
26) Hometown
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Border Baker thinks he's perfectly content in New Mexico, his home for the last three years. But when his father inherits his childhood home in Minnesota and decides to move them again, Border feels he's being held prisoner and force-fed a hometown. People in the town haven't forgotten that his dad fled to Canada rather than serve in the Army in Vietnam, and Border becomes a target of their simmering resentment.
27) Zoomies!
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When Diggz and Wrrrussell get to the dog park, a situation confronts them: Long Dog John is menacing an animal balanced on the fence. What is it? Turns out, it's not a dog-it's a cat! Buddy the Cat has come to play, and LD John doesn't want her there. Is it better for animals to play only with their own kind? Will all the animals play together?
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The Elephant and the Mouse is a delightful children's tale about judging and underestimating others based on appearances or without knowing someone.An elephant is afraid of mice, but when the two finally meet face to face, they find out they have more in common than they realise, transforming them into friends.This charming story written by Stephanie O'Connor will capture any child's imagination. It has been created sensitively to enable your child...
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When Harper and her dad move to a new house, a creepy stepmom is the least of her worries Harper is not too happy to be moving in with her soon-to-be stepmother, Gus. The eccentric woman's home, which the neighbors call the Spook House, has a yard full of weird metal sculptures. Gus is nothing like Harper's dad's other girlfriends, and Harper would take her former trailer home over the Spook House any day. Luckily, a girl named Rawnie lives right...
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"Dawn's Cozy Horror Corner: a queer Chinese diaspora horror short stories anthology" is a horror anthology which contains five stories featuring supernatural elements and young Chinese diaspora protagonists whose identities clash with the environment around them.
In "Bottle of Shame", a girl who can pull out people's shame must grapple with the gruesome consequences of the truth she reveals. In "The Girl with No Face", a girl slowly loses her...
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Do you know the story of the "Wild" West? How much of it is good storytelling and showmanship? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. Find out how and why myths took the place of fact over time, and the fascinating history the myths may hide. Explore primary sources and learn the ins and outs of unraveling myths to find the facts.
32) Left Out
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B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree. Bronze Children's Books Award 2017 Readers' Favorites. Shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Novella Award.'A compelling story about friendship, its strength, and the unusual ways it develops.' Rebecca P. McCray, The Journey of the Marked Being different isn't easy but it can be exciting! How well do you know your friends? Are they left-handed or right-handed? Are they left-brained or right-brained? And what difference does...
33) The Price We Pay
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With one life to live, and a nothing-else-to-lose attitude, Zenetta Henchman speaks more than she listens and refuses to take orders quietly. With a strong personality and wisdom beyond her young years because of what she's experienced, after witnessing a fatal incident that both rocks and divides her community of Buzzardville, Alabama, Zenetta finds it difficult to hold her tongue. But harder not to, even after suffering-and watching others suffer-from...
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"I stopped being me at approximately 4:30 PM today.The words of a crazy person. That's me, Ellen Wright. So crazy, so suddenly, that on my way out of Ye Goode Drop after my Saturday study session, I waved goodbye to Kenzie and turned to find myself-my long-fingered hands, my tanned arms-carrying a heavy tray loaded with dirty dishes. In a crowded, noisy hole-in-the-wall diner. In a long apron, in someone else's too-big shirt that smelled like grease....
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Collection : Les grandes aventures (8 à 12 ans)
Douze ans après la disparition de la race humaine, les animaux ont pu prendre la place qui leur revenait de droit, tels des rois. Je parle évidemment des chats.
Les animaux ont également pris en charge la gestion des ressources naturelles avec brio et intelligence. Je parle naturellement des chiens.
L'Homme étant définitivement absent, l'air est devenu plus sain partout dans le monde. En...
36) The Go-Between
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Based on the life of Eiko Kitagawa Maruno this is a story of bravery, adventure and Canadian history Twelve-year-old Sumi, a Japanese Canadian girl living in Vancouver in 1926, takes her older sister's place working at Gibson's Landing so that Yoshi can go summer school to become a dressmaker. Dealing with unfamiliar customs and the racism of the time makes Sumi want to give up and go home, but as she becomes involved in supporting striking workers...
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In a world of privilege and prejudice, Ariel Monroe's life is shattered on her fourteenth birthday when she witnesses the ugly truth beneath the opulence. Born into a high-class Caucasian family, Ariel's world is a realm of privilege and extravagance, where wealth and social standing are everything. But when she sees the cruelty her neighbors inflict on their beloved maid, Arden, simply because of her beautiful chestnut-colored skin, Ariel can no...
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When Sam White Jr., a white high school student, is asked to start playing drums at the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church-a predominately Black church-on Sundays, tensions begin to heighten in a Texas town that refuses to acknowledge their place in the Civil Rights era. Sam begins to question the morality of his own family's ties to the Confederacy when his Black classmates reveal their family histories. Sam's father takes him to a KKK rally...
39) No Girls Allowed
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It's 1977, and 10-year-old Tina couldn't be happier about her life. Not because she just moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, but because she's finally old enough to make her dream come true: she can play on a real hockey team. But when she tries to join the league, she learns that girls aren't allowed to play on the boys' team-and there's no team for girls.
Despite jeers from classmates and cruelty from some of the town's adults, Tina is determined to...
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"An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation. We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting...