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Words with wings
Par Nikki Grimes. 2013
When Gabby's parents separate, her tendency to daydream becomes essential to coping with life's difficulties, which only increase when she…
moves with her mother to a new home and a new school. For grades 3-6Lighting the way: nine women who changed modern America
Par Karenna Gore Schiff. 2005
Stories of remarkable women influencing United States history, from fighting the battle to win women the right to vote, to…
struggling to deal with the AIDS crisis. Included are: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mother Jones, Alice Hamilton, Francis Perkins, Virginia Durr, Septima Poinsette Clark, Dolores Herta, Helen Rodriguez-Trias, and Gretchen Buchenholz. Some violenceThe good braider: a novel
Par Terry Farish. 2012
A young refugee from war-ravaged Sudan tries to navigate the strange territory of her new home in Portland, Maine. This…
young adult novel is told in free verse. For junior and senior highHow I discovered poetry
Par Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper. 2014
A celebrated poet recalls her 1950s girlhood in a sequence of poems that travels from her earliest memories in Cleveland,…
through Air Force bases all across the country, and into an adolescence where a love of language and an awareness of racism takes rootRumble
Par Ellen Hopkins. 2014
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything. Not in family, which is falling apart after his younger brother's suicide. Not…
in friends who turn their backs. Not in a creator who lets bad things happen. No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about faith and forgiveness, there's no way he will forgive those he blames. He's decided to "live large and go out with a huge bang". But when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark place, he hears a rumble that wakes him up. For junior and senior high readers. UnratedThe sound of letting go
Par Stasia Ward Kehoe. 2014
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her…
trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go. For junior and senior highOctober mourning: a song for Matthew Shepard
Par Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerBrewster the rooster
Par Devin Scillian, Lee White. 2007
Under the mesquite (Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2013-2014)
Par Guadalupe Garcia McCall. 2011
Written in verse. Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her…
house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms. For junior and senior highGirls who green the world: Thirty-four rebel women out to save our planet
Par Diana Kapp. 2022
Part biography, part guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book is the perfect gift for future and current activists…
and changemakers! Girls Who Green the World features the inspiring stories of 34 revolutionaries fighting for our future! An inspired collection of profiles, featuring environmental changemakers, social entrepreneurs, visionaries and activists. Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: while you&’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too—because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just thatNothing burns as bright as you
Par Ashley Woodfolk. 2022
From acclaimed author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned story about queer love, grief, and…
the complexity of female friendship that will keep your heart racing, and breaking, until the very last page. Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end?The most dazzling girl in berlin
Par Kip Wilson. 2022
A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she…
discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job at a gay cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson. On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings for Rosa. But Berlin is in turmoil. Between the elections, protests in the streets, worsening antisemitism and anti-homosexual sentiment, and the beginning seeds of unrest in Café Lila itself, Hilde will have to decide what's best for her future . . . and what it means to love a place on the cusp of warChasing Lincoln's killer: The Search For John Wilkes Booth
Par James L. Swanson. 2009
Examines the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by the twenty-six-year-old actor John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater in Washington,…
D.C., and highlights the effect on those closest to Lincoln. Details the pursuit and capture of Booth and his accomplices. Some violence. For grades 6-9. 2009This full house (Make Lemonade Trilogy)
Par Virginia Euwer Wolff. 2009
Seventeen-year-old LaVaughn advances her plans for college by accepting admission into a women-in-medical-science program and befriending her mentor, Dr. Moore.…
Although LaVaughn helps her friend Jolly solve Jolly's mysterious past, LaVaughn's academic future becomes uncertain. Sequel to True Believer (DB 52298). For senior high and older readers. 2009Keeping the night watch
Par Hope Anita Smith, E. B. Lewis. 2008
In a series of prose poems, thirteen-year-old C.J. chronicles the reactions of his family to the return of his father,…
who had walked out on them. Sequel to The Way a Door Closes (RC 58637). For grades 5-8. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. 2008Becoming Billie Holiday
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper. 2008
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (1915-1959) reflects on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse. In "I Can't…
Face the Music" Billie overcomes stage fright. In "Trav'lin' Light," her songs are her home. Some violence and some strong language. For senior high readers. Coretta Scott King Honor. 2008Washington at Valley Forge
Par Russell Freedman. 2008
Discusses the reasons that George Washington's army almost perished while encamped at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania during the winter of…
1777 to 1778. Explains the ways that Washington proved his leadership, supported his troops, and led them to victory against the British the following June. For grades 4-7. 2008Mr. Lincoln's high-tech war: how the North used the telegraph, railroads, surveillance balloons, ironclads, high-powered weapons, and more to win the Civil War
Par Roger Allen, Thomas Allen, Thomas B Allen. 2009
Discusses President Lincoln's role as commander in chief during the Civil War. Describes his advocacy of controlling railroad and telegraph…
lines, conducting aerial surveillance, producing advanced weaponry, building ironclad ships, and blockading the South's ports. For grades 6-9. 2009Kim Jong Il's North Korea (Dictatorships)
Par Alison Behnke. 2008
Chronicles the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948. Describes life under communist leader Kim Il Sung…
and his son Kim Jong Il. Traces the development of a police state that caused famines, created work camps, and fostered political isolation. For junior and senior high readers. 2008Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (Dictatorships)
Par James R. Arnold, Roberta Wiener. 2008
Discusses the South African country formerly known as Rhodesia. Describes the 1980 overthrow of colonial powers by nationalist Robert Mugabe's…
use of guerrilla warfare. Details Mugabe's establishment of a dictatorship that led to economic decline and poor health-care and educational systems. For junior and senior high readers. 2008