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English
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Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Longbefore the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's mostbeloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raisedon comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A timely and deeply moving memoir of the author's Ukrainian family history, interwoven with the country's tumultuous story. In 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim's personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown Kyiv was gripped by protests and violent suppression. Crimea, where she'd once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was invaded. Kharkiv, where her grandmother...
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
The fascinating Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, her dramatic works featuring bold and vibrant colors. Her work brought attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and she is also renowned for her works celebrating the female form. Brown's story recounts Frida's beloved pets--two monkeys, a parrot, three dogs, two turkeys, an eagle, a black cat, and a fawn--and playfully considers how Frida embodied many wonderful characteristics...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in. Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door. After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most vibrant periods in European art and life is centered around the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap - an enormous explosion in 1654 Holland that claimed the life of one of the greatest artists of the 17th century."
Author
Series
Monstrous volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
"Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
58 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow the 14th Dalai Lama's harrowing escape to India in 1959, as he fled Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet. A story of risk and political tension, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the incredible story of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader--brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank"--
"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942,...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
132 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are in agreement on his future. Colin feels differently. Colin isn't excited about baseball. In the words of five-time all-star MLB player Adam Jones, "Baseball is a white man's game." Colin looks up to...
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Language
English
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"Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"--
"A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there. Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine,...
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...
14) Sunshine
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
226 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her loneliness through her summer algebra class, the city itself, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults fail her again and again with devastating consequences. Dreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces that harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout...
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