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CLARA'S MAGIC GARDENWhen lonely, young Clara hears a bush whispering to her in the winter, the white girl happily collects its berries and holds onto them until...
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THIS IS OUR HOMEThe author, an operating partner in a private equity firm focused on environmental, social, and governance issues, uses an autobiographical lens...
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THE WORRYING WORRIESIt all starts when a tan-skinned child traps a Worry in their net. They decide to take it home and keep the pocket-sized purple scribble as a...
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DIM SUM PALACELiddy, a round girl with plump cheeks and Asian features, is too excited to fall asleep—tomorrow her family is going to the Dim Sum Palace. “Is...
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COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG STORYCoombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) uses two distinct voices to share information. The alternating chapters prefaced with “When Life Was Our Own”...
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PERFECTLY NICE NEIGHBORSWelcome to Blenheim: There are homes with perfect lawns, “neat streets and perfectly nice neighbors.” Despite financial difficulties in the wake...
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SOMETHING LIKE HOMEWhen 11-year-old Laura Rodríguez Colón calls 911 to save her parents from a possible overdose, authorities remove her from her home and place...
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PROUD MOUSEAs made clear in Loud Mouse (2022), Dee’s a talented singer with a powerful set of lungs. Soft-spoken little sis Cara Lee is a different kind...
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SLAVERY AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STORYIn her exploration of how slavery has impacted the United States throughout its history, Williams Dockery begins her narrative before...
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SEA SERPENT'S HEIRTwo weeks after the conclusion of the first book, the story begins with Aella recovering from not only a battle, but from betrayal, the...
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BOOK OF SCREAMSTanya is beyond excited to meet Joel Southland. His scary stories are so relatable, and she treasures the signed bookmark he gives her when he...
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THE ENCHANTERSWithin the dirty fun of Ellroy's fiction, all sorts of lines continue to blur. There is little distinction between characters taken from...
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LARRY MCMURTRYLarry McMurtry (1936-2021) once said that he was “drawn to stories of vanishing crafts…or trades,” such as cowboying and bookselling. The Last...
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THE IMPROBABLE TALES OF BASKERVILLE HALLYoung Arthur Conan Doyle is an observant Scottish boy living in poverty in Edinburgh in 1868. When he helps save a young mother and her baby,...
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PLAYING THE WITCH CARDWith just five days to go before Halloween, Flair Hardwicke couldn't feel less enthusiastic about the holiday spirit oozing out of every...
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DIGGING STARSIn Athandwa Rosa Siziba’s memory, her father, Frank, is heroic: a renowned professor and astronomer who traveled to the International Space...
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HOW FAR TO THE PROMISED LANDAs the author, a native of Alabama who grew up in “a neighborhood for people who were broke but not yet on government assistance,” writes, it’s...
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PEACH PITA smart-mouthed child locked inside a shed discovers a match and the intoxicating allure of fire (“All You Have Is Your Fire” by Yah Yah...
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THE MISSING MORNINGSTARThe book opens with "Dormant," in which 17-year-old Bernadine becomes involved in a relationship with 24-year-old Aaron after helping him rescue...
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ONCE A GIANTMyers, the author of Brady vs. Manning , has covered the NFL since 1978. He got off to a rocky start when he reported dissent surrounding newly...
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GLOSSYJournalist Meltzer, author of This Is Big and Girl Power , charts Emily Weiss’ trajectory to industry mogul. The daughter of a...
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TAMING THE STREETIt was among the greatest accomplishments of Roosevelt’s New Deal that agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission succeeded in...
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BETWEEN MONSTERS AND MARVELSDare Coates is willful, surly, and unrepentantly nonconforming: “an awful girl.” Only her father truly understood and loved her, but he was...
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HATTIE'S WARHarriett “Hattie” Alanson Howell is only 14 years old but has already experienced major loss. When Hattie was 10, her closest sibling, Jennie,...
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BRUSHChris is a Milwaukee-based tech whiz who, along with his friends, is in the process of developing an app that helps arborists find work. At the...
