It could be worse by Tsarfati, Einat 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 891166 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Sailors - Fiction Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. - Fiction Humorous fiction Optimism - Fiction

Summary: As a pair of shipwrecked sailors float on what's left of their ship, Albertini is none too happy. But no matter how bad the situation seems, George, cheerfully playing his harmonica, reminds his friend it could always be worse.

Jazz owls : a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 311429 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.8 MG+ Lexile: 1300

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Novels in verse Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943 - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Dancing - Fiction Sailors - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.

Kodi by Cullum, Jared 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf, 2020)

BTSB #: 252272 In Bindery

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 9-12   


Genres:

Subjects: Grandparent-grandchild relationship - Fiction Bears - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Sailors - Fiction Graphic novels Alaska - Fiction Seattle (Wash.) - Fiction

Summary: Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen ... an enormous Kodiak bear with a gentle heart and a knack for fishing. In graphic novel format.