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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "UPPERCUT to the senses." We couldn't agree more. We have never encountered an author with prose of this sensitivity and fire.
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into...
Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Jose, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into...
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"Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's founding."--
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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After invaders destroyed her village, murdered her family, and took her prisoner, shield-maiden Ragna is hungry for revenge. A trained warrior, she is ready to fight for her home, but with only a mermaid and a crew of disloyal mercenaries to aid her, Ragna knows she needs new allies. Guided by the magical maps on her skin, battling storms and mutiny, Ragna sets sail across the Northern Sea. She petitions the Jarl in Skjordal for aid, but despite Ragna's...
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"When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created...
5) Homebody
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"In this intimate and defiantly hopeful graphic novel memoir, the author shares their journey to find a home within themself, taking readers through the experiences and everyday moments that all led up to them finding the term "nonbinary," which finally struck a chord.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid, Tiffany Jewell, this YA nonfiction book, highlighting inequities Black and Brown students face from preschool through college, is the most important, empowering read this year.From preschool to higher education and everything in between, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as...
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Crossbooks
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Los tres volúmenes de la Trilogía Fuego de Joana Marcús en un precioso estuche. Enamórate de la historia de Alice y Rhett y descubre la obra más sorprendente de Joana. Además, en esta edición encontrarás textos inéditos desde el punto de vista de Rhett.
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La magia es solo un recuerdo para los habitantes de la ciudad perdida de Lkossa. Y ni siquiera eso para alguien como Koffi, cuyo único objetivo es trabajar para pagar las deudas de su familia y, quizá, poder ser libre algún día. Sus sueños se desvanecen cuando alguien amenaza la seguridad de sus seres queridos. Ese día, Koffi desata un poder que no comprende y que traerá consecuencias nefastas. Ekon, por su parte, está destinado a ser un guerrero...
13) Takedown
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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With an upcoming international tournament where top college recruiters will take note, sixteen-year-old Rowan trains to earn a scholarship and secure her planned future with her Shakespeare-thespian boyfriend, Ozzy. But when a costly treatment for her father's worsening ALS symptoms emerges in Sweden, Rowan decides to train with an MMA fighter at her gym to fight and make money in an underground — and illegal — fight club. As Rowan delves into...
14) Borrow my heart
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"When a Wren overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friends for being catfished, she jumps in to save the day--and pretends to be his online crush"--
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A veces los astros y el corazón van en direcciones opuestas
La temporada de Libra llegó y eso solo significa una cosa: el amor está en el aire y Cat, autoproclamada gurú de los astros, la aprovechará para confesarle sus sentimientos a Alison. Pero, aunque sus cartas astrales son compatibles, ella le anuncia que está enamorada de alguien más.
¿Cómo es posible que el zodiaco se haya equivocado así?
Con el corazón roto, Cat intenta darle otra...
16) Five Survive
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2023
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Holly Jackson es la reina del thriller juvenil y regresa a nuestras bibliotecas con esta historia trepidante narrada a tiempo real.
Seis amigos, un viaje y un único objetivo: sobrevivir
En las vacaciones de primavera, seis amigos deciden hacen una ruta por carretera. Ellos, una camper y kilómetros por delante. Este será el viaje de su vida. Pero cuando su furgoneta sufra una avería en medio de la nada, en una zona sin cobertura y alejada de cualquier...
17) Querido diario
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2023
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Querido diario:
Hoy dejaré que mis heridas sangren, que sangren en tinta negra, yo y mi pluma suelta. ¿Cuántas lágrimas le caben a esta tristeza? ¿Y cuánta tristeza le cabe a este corazón? ¿Y cuánto corazón le queda a este cuerpo, para creer que vale la pena seguir existiendo?
18) No time like now
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Possessed with the ability to grant others extra time in their lives, when seventeen-year-old Hazeem gives away more time than he has left to live, he grapples with the consequences as he tries to reclaim those years and rediscover the true value of living.
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2023
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The Sun Is Also a Star meets You’ve Got Mail in this YA Christmas love story set in a London Black-owned bookshop.
Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland.
Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn...
Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland.
Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn...
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