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Boston Weatherford, Carole

"Going Green! is the sixth book in The Why Files, a nonfiction early-reader series starring Ada Twist, Scientist! How can the sun power the lights in our homes? What happens to our things after we recycle them? How is renewable energy being used to fight climate change? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling Questioneers series and the Ada Twist, Scientist Netflix...

2) The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

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Lerner Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2024

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NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

Four dolls. Two psychologists. One landmark court case. During the first half of the twentieth century, schoolchildren in many parts of the United States were segregated—Black children and white children could not legally attend the same schools. In their so-called doll test, pioneering Black psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark investigated the effects of segregation by presenting children with two Black and two white baby dolls. "Show me the...

3) War

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Woodward, Bob

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War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting,...

4) Let it glow

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Meyer, Marissa

Pub. Date

2024.

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Aviva Davis and Holly Martin both knew they were adopted, but they had no idea they had an identical twin. The similarities are only skin deep, though, because while Aviva has a big personality, Holly is more the quiet dreamer type. One thing the girls do have in common is their curiosity about how the other celebrates the holidays. The girls secretly trade lives, planning to stage a dramatic reveal to their families. Two virtual strangers swapping...

5) We do not welcome our ten-year-old overlord

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Nix, Garth

Pub. Date

2024.

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Ten-year-old prodigy Eila found an alien object that allows her to control peoples' minds (for their own good, of course), and it is up to her older brother, Kim, to save her--and to save the world from her.

6) One last stand

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Warren, Susan May

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Alaska Air One Rescue volume 4

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Book, Large Print

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As a member of the Air One Rescue team, pilot London Brooks has built a new life -- one far away from her clandestine past as an operative tasked to take down a branch of Russian terrorists. She has no desire to reenter that world or endure the grief of losing everyone she loved, including her fiancé. But the past won't stay past. When she finds herself falsely accused, her reputation tarnished, and her life in danger, she has no choice but to plunge...

7) The Little White Bird

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Barrie, J. M

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Peter Pan

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Deadtree Publishing

Pub. Date

2013

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The Little White Bird (1902) is a novel by J. M. Barrie. Inspired by his friendship with George Llewelyn Davies, the grandson of writer George du Maurier, Barrie penned this heartwarming tale of imagination and adventure featuring for the first time his beloved character Peter Pan. Broken into short episodes, The Little White Bird follows Captain W., a childless veteran, on his visits to David and his family in Kensington Gardens. Through their friendship,...

8) The Door in Lake Mallion

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Beiko, S. M

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The Brindlewatch Quintet

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ECW Press

Pub. Date

2024

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The Door in Lake Mallion brings readers into a world of magic, monsters, and the folks who love them, telling a story of dazzling performers, glowing mushroom cities, and the power of shining our light for everyone to see Dunstan has had big ambitions his entire life - bigger than the small lakeside town of Knockum - imagining himself heading a chorus line with a leading man he hasn't quite cast yet. But on his way out of town for good, a gang...

9) A grim reaper's guide to catching a killer

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Dara, Maxie

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A SCYTHE Mystery
S.C.Y.T.H.E. mysteries volume 1
S.C.Y.T.H.E Mystery
S.C.Y.T.H.E. mystery

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2024.

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"Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex's baby. She's also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), but frankly that's the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until one of her clients' souls went missing. When she finally tracks down seventeen-year-old Conner Ortiz, he angrily denies he died of natural causes, despite what his...

10) Slouch

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Wyman, Christina

Pub. Date

2024.

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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs

As the tallest girl in the seventh grade, twelve-year-old Stevie receives unwanted attention that weighs on her self-esteem as she navigates family issues and struggles to stand tall on the debate team.

11) Carson the magnificent

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Zehme, Bill

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"In 2002, Bill Zehme landed an interview with Johnny Carson--the only one he'd granted since retiring from hosting The Tonight Show a decade earlier. Shortly after Carson's death in 2005, Zehme signed a contract to do an expansive biography. He toiled on the book for nearly a decade before a cancer diagnosis halted his progress. The hundreds of pages Zehme managed to complete are astounding both for the caliber of their writing and how they illuminate...

12) Haven

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Dalia, Mia

Pub. Date

2024.

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Camila la estrella
Camila the star

"You can't choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into...

13) Camila la estrella del video

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Salazar, Alicia

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Camila encuentra un concurso de video que puede ser la manera perfecta para convertirse en una estrella. Para participar, debe hacer un video que explica lo que significa para ella su ciudad, Los ℓngeles. Pero siendo una ciudad tan grande, ¿c̤mo podr̀ Camila decidir de qǔ va a hablar? Mientras Camila trabaja en su video, se da cuenta de lo m̀s especial de su ciudad, lo que la hace sentir en casa. Camila wants to become a star and participates...

14) Tierra fresca de su tumba

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Rivero, Giovanna

Series

Candaya Narrativa

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Charco Press

Pub. Date

2023

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Náufragos, origami, posesión y ciencia: estos cuentos encarnan el punto de encuentro entre los horrores contemporáneos y los terrores antiguos.

Seis relatos de una belleza oscura que laten con temáticas perturbadoras: la legitimidad de la venganza, el incesto como medio de supervivencia, brujería indígena versus tradición japonesa, el cuerpo como la víctima fatal que habitamos. Los cuentos de Rivero perforan al lector

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15) Nuestra celebración del Día de Muertos

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Aranda, Ana

Publisher

Penguin Young Readers Group

Pub. Date

2023

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El Día de Muertos es un día festivo muy especial, en el cual las familias celebran y comparten historias y risas que traen a los muertos de vuelta a la vida. ¡Ven y únete al festejo!
Es un día en el cual la familia reunida cuenta historias y ríe. Hay platillos favoritos por cocinar y poemas por escribir para los muertos, y lo más importante: memorias por evocar. Ningún familiar es olvidado,...

16) Sinister Stranger at St Bride's

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Young, Debbie

Series

Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery

Publisher

Boldwood Books

Pub. Date

2022

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'A delight from start to finish' Juliette Lawson

When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the rightful owner of the school's magnificent country estate it could spell trouble for everyone at St Bride's...

No one can believe it when the headmistress, Hairnet, instantly accepts the stranger's claim, not:

the put-upon Bursar, ousted from his cosy estate cottage by the stranger

the enigmatic

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17) #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing

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Allison, Emily Joy

Publisher

Fortress Press

Pub. Date

2021

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Strange Case of Harleen and Harley
DC graphic novels for young adults

When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington. While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious

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18) The strange case of Harleen and Harley

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Marr, Melissa

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DC Comics

Pub. Date

[2024]

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Harleen Quinzel is many things, a gymnast, anxious, broke... but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand... When Harleen signs up to participate in a clinical research trial with her girlfriend, Pamela, the most she can hope for is extra cash in her wallet and a chance to get her anxiety under control. But what she gets instead are increasingly larger gaps in her memory and stolen mementos from some guy named Jack...

19) Worth the Chance: Lake Spark, #2

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Lyon, Evey

Series

Lake Spark

Publisher

Lost Compass Press

Pub. Date

2023

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Baseball star Spencer Crews knows April can't stand him, yet his proposition of temporarily living together is the biggest curveball of his career...

Making a certain kind of video with my enemy (who happens to be everyone's favorite baseball player) was not my proudest moment, but I blame the alcohol for Spencer's smirk three seconds before our clothes ended up on the floor for our one-night mistake. He said he deleted

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20) PIG THE REBEL

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Blabey, Aaron

Series

Chancho el pug

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

2023

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