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Ancestor approved: intertribal stories for kids
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Recommended for Grades 4-6. Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride
Genre(s):
Powwows -- Juvenile fiction
Communities -- Juvenile fiction
Indians of North America -- Juvenile fiction
Communities
Indians of North America

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310

Kit Level: Kids

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Boys in the back row, The
(Jung, Mike)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship, and their honest love and support for one another. That's exactly what we love so much about The Boys in the Back Row: it's an unabashed ode to male friendship, because love between boys, platonic or otherwise, is something to celebrate. And of course, because this is Mike Jung, we'll be celebrating it with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore!-- Amazon
Genre(s):
Young men -- Juvenile fiction
Marching bands -- Juvenile fiction
Competition -- Juvenile fiction
Best friends -- Juvenile fiction
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction

Pages:
267

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Free lunch
(Ogle, Rex)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. "A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller"-- Provided by publisher
Genre(s):
Nonfiction -- Poor children United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Hunger -- Juvenile literature
School children Food -- Juvenile literature
Middle school students -- Juvenile literature

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206

Kit Level: Kids

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Home is not a country
(Elhillo, Safia)
Recommended for Grades 7-9. "Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen, the name her parents didn't give her at birth: Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might just be more real than Nima knows. And more hungry. And the life Nima has, the one she keeps wishing were someone else's...she might have to fight for it with a fierceness she never knew she had."-- Publisher's description
Genre(s):
Children of immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
Muslim families -- Juvenile fiction
High school students -- Juvenile fiction
Hate crimes -- Juvenile fiction
Novels in verse

Pages:
215

Kit Level: Teen

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Last night at the Telegraph Club
(Lo, Malinda)
Recommended for Grades 10-12. "Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite his hard-won citizenship--Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day"-- Provided by publisher
Genre(s):
Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction
Chinese American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
Lesbian bars -- Juvenile fiction
Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction

Pages:
409

Kit Level: Teen

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Legend of Auntie Po, The
(Khor, Shing Yin)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. "Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in the United States."--Baker & Taylor
Genre(s):
Chinese Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
Chinese Americans Folklore -- Comic books, strips, etc
Chinese Americans Folklore -- Juvenile fiction

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290

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Lupe Wong won't dance
(Higuera, Donna Barba)
Recommended for Grades 3-4."Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide."--Provided by publisher
Genre(s):
Tomboys -- Juvenile fiction
Baseball stories
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction
Square dancing -- Juvenile fiction
Baseball stories

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263

Kit Level: Kids

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Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
(Bradley, Fleur)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. Five murder suspects are invited to the haunted Barclay Hotel for a weekend getaway, and it is up to twelve-year-old JJ and eleven-year-old Penny--and a lonely ghost--to figure out who committed the crime
Genre(s):
Children's Fiction
Ghost stories
Brothers Death -- Fiction
Paranormal fiction
Conspiracy theories -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction

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298

Kit Level: Kids

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Millionaires for the month
(McAnulty, Stacy)
Recommended for Grades 3-4. "After seventh graders Benji and Felix "borrow" $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner challenges them to spend over $5 million dollars in thirty days in order to learn life lessons about money"-- Provided by publisher
Genre(s):
Money -- Juvenile fiction
Wealth -- Juvenile fiction
Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
Middle school students

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323

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My life as an ice cream sandwich
(Zoboi, Ibi Aanu)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA, Jeremiah has nurtured Ebony-Grace's love for all things outer space and science fiction--especially Star Wars and Star Trek. But in the summer of 1984, when trouble arises with Jeremiah, it's decided she'll spend a few weeks with her father in Harlem. Harlem is an exciting and terrifying place for a sheltered girl from Hunstville, and Ebony-Grace's first instinct is to retreat into her imagination. But soon 126th Street begins to reveal that it has more in common with her beloved sci-fi adventures than she ever thought possible, and by summer's end, Ebony-Grace discovers that Harlem has a place for a girl whose eyes are always on the stars
Genre(s):
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
Imagination -- Juvenile fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
Imagination
Fiction

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250

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New kid
(Craft, Jerry)
Recommended for Grades 4-6. 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 not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?
Genre(s):
Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Private schools -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Parent and child -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Race -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Juvenile fiction
Carto

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Patron saints of nothing
(Ribay, Randy)
Recommended for Grades 10-12. When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more
Genre(s):
Murder -- Fiction
Cousins -- Fiction
Families Philippines -- Fiction
Young adult fiction

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323

Kit Level: Teen

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