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81) Hide and seek
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Animal rescue team volume 3
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The Carter family's Halloween preparations are complicated by a deer with a pumpkin stuck on its head and a puppy that is part dog, part coyote.
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"A young biracial girl named Remy, encounters that intrusive question, "What are you?" during her first day at a new school, which sends her on a journey towards self-acceptance. Feeling confused about where she belongs, Remy learns about ethnicity and what it means to be biracial by doing her favorite activity with her mother: baking. When she then returns to school, Remy shares the importance and deliciousness of celebrating different backgrounds...
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"Jessamy is at the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron overlords, but when enemies from foreign lands attack the kingdom, she must find a way to defend their home and all the people she loves, Efean and Saroese alike"--
86) Endangered
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Ape quartet volume 1
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Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
87) Atty at law
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Atticus "Atty" Peale fights for the rights of animals, copes with having a racially-mixed family in small-town Alabama, navigates the social scene of middle school, and determines to help her father prove Jethro Gersham innocent of murder.
88) Stone Field
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In this loose retelling of "Wuthering Heights" set in Missouri during the Civil War, when free-spirited seventeen-year-old Catrina discovers a mysterious young man with amnesia on her family's sorghum farm, they fall passionately in love, scandalizing intolerant family members and neighbors.
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"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
90) Riot
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In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
91) Full cicada moon
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In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
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Mysterium volume 2
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While searching for more clues to the murder of his circus performer parents, talented magician Danny Woo follows the Mysterium circus to Barcelona, where he discovers a traitor and a dangerous woman in green.
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Marisol McDonald volume 1
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Multicultural Booklist
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
Multicultural Booklist
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
95) Home and away
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Tasia is a senior with great friends and a supportive family, and she even plays football as the only girl on her private high school's team. A mystery surrounding her mother makes Tasia wonder about her identity. She tries to unravel the lies that have taken over her life.
99) Gray baby
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Clifton has grown up in rural Virginia with the memory of his African American father being beaten to death by policemen, causing his white mother to slip into alcoholism and depression, but after befriending an old man who listens to his problems, Clifton finally feels less alone in the world.
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Eight-year-old Morgan Otter, who is part Cherokee, has just moved to the new city of Wilmington Island, Georgia, far from her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. Missing her best friend, Morgan is very lonely in her new home, but soon she learns about sea turtles, and helps a nest of them to hatch.
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