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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love--even in the voice of a Galápagos...
2) Wishtree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this "wishtree" watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experiences as a wishtree are more important than ever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In Being Tolerant, beginning readers will learn about all the ways they can be tolerant in their daily lives. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they discover how they can build character by being tolerant.
5) The river
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Series
Description
"When two sisters return home for a visit after leaving the Amish world, both are troubled by the secrets--and the people--they left behind"--Provided by publisher.
10) The capybaras
Author
Pub. Date
2021.]
Formats
Description
"In this beautiful and simple book, hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is, and each hen knows her job. They don’t even seem to notice when one of them is carried off from time to time. Until the day the capybaras appear. To the hens, they are too hair, too wet, and too big. They don’t even follow the rules! But it’s hunting season, and the capybaras need...
11) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The story of a lonely bunny, Marlon Bundo, who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, and the very special day when he met another boy bunny named Wesley that changed his life forever.
Author
Series
Description
With this volume's practical guidance, you'll grow in your ability to identify, confront, and eliminate barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity. Most important, you'll find tips for helping staff and children learn to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Over the last three decades, educators across the nation and around the world have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience...
Author
Series
Frederik Sandwich volume 1
Formats
Description
A completely implausible earthquake sets Frederik Sandwich and Pernille, a mysterious stranger, on an adventure through secret and forbidden places in their small town.
19) Clothes minded
Author
Series
Sew Zoey volume 11
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Zoey worries that she is closed-minded when she fouls things up trying to help someone who has a crush on her friend and when she tries to bar someone from joining the school's fashion club.