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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54ʻF and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
62) Home for a while
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Vivimos más conectados que nunca, sin embargo, jamás habíamos estado tan solos, tan separados los unos de los otros, de nosotros mismos y del mundo natural. Nos sentimos alienados, desarraigados y angustiados… Exiliados en busca de nuestro lugar en el mundo. Y es que la pérdida del sentido de pertenencia es la gran herida silenciosa de nuestro tiempo. Solemos pensar que la pertenencia hace referencia a un lugar mítico, un lugar fuera...
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"A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that...
66) Hoops and hopes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"For twelve-year-old Autumn Holloway, a week at Blazing Hoops wheelchair basketball camp is a dream come true. She has high hopes that it will be her ticket to making friends and connections in the adaptive sports community. But Autumn struggles to fit in with her wealthier fellow campers. To make matters worse, she has to use a borrowed basketball wheelchair that keeps needing repairs. It takes a chance encounter with the campus custodial staff to...
67) A Home for Leo
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Leo grew up in the sea with a family of sea lions he loves. When he's reunited with his human parents, he finds he loves them, too.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In this "picture book about friendship and belonging, ... Stripes the mitten loses her partner and becomes a single mitten. She feels excluded by the other perfectly matching pairs--that is until one day the little girl asks the question, 'Why do mittens have to match?'"--
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he...
71) If I fall
Author
Series
Beverly Hills Prep volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Nora is a first year at Beverly Hills Preparatory Academy, attending thanks to one of the limited scholarships offered by the school. In a world where it seems like everyone's parents are millionaires, Nora can't help feeling shy and self-conscious of her status. But when she is invited to a dance with a neighboring boys' prep school, she meets someone special. When everything changes, Nora will have to decide for herself where she belongs" --
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What does it mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a vast variety of luminaries--from Gary Soto to Nawal Nasrallah to Ying Ying Yu, from chefs to artists...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise,...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Everything and everyone has a place in the universe, but for a little speck, lost at sea, it will take an extraordinary journey to find it. The little speck does not know what it is, only that it wishes to find out. And so it embarks on a journey across the sea. From sun-flecked surf to darkest depths, past schools of fish, storm-tossed ships and hungry eels.... Until, at last, it finds exactly what it was looking a place to belong.
78) Pie in the Sky
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly...
Author
Series
Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When Rainbow Fish meets a new friend, Humbert, he isn’t sure what to think. Humbert tells all kinds of strange stories: Somewhere at the bottom of the ocean there’s a plug! There’s a blue whale living near here . . . and he’s going to eat up all of our food. But before Rainbow Fish and his friends panic, they realize that Humbert just likes to make up tall tales. Rainbow Fish and his friends soon come up with an idea that might make them...