Eagle huntress : the true story of the girl who soared beyond expectations by Aisholpan, Nurgaiv 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 932044 Available

Dewey: 639/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG F&P: V

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Subjects: Aisholpan, Nurgaiv Falconers - Mongolia - Biography Girls - Mongolia - Biography Women hunters - Mongolia - Biography Falconry - Mongolia Kazakhs - Mongolia - Social life and customs Golden eagles - Mongolia

Summary: Eagle huntress Aisholpan Nurgaiv shares her story.

From the desk of Zoe Washington [Zoe Washington]by Marks, Janae 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 604073 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 3.8 3-5 Lexile: 660

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Prisoners' families - Fiction Bakers - Fiction Bakeries - Fiction Family life - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime.

Itch by Farquhar, Polly 

Paperback New title.(Holiday House)

BTSB #: 325170 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


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Summary: Ohio sixth-grader Isaac "Itch" Fitch strives to fit in, but everything seems to be going wrong, even before a school lunch trade sends his best friend, Sydney, to the hospital.

Linked by Korman, Gordon 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 530017 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Middle schools - Fiction School stories Swastikas - Fiction Vandalism - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Mystery fiction Colorado - Fiction

Summary: Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students decide to fight back and start a project to bring people together instead of dividing them further.

Prairie lotus by Park, Linda Sue 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2020)

BTSB #: 700117 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Y

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Frontier and pioneer life - Dakota Territory - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Racism - Fiction Dressmaking - Fiction Dakota Territory - Fiction

Summary: In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves.

Silverbelly by Dahlstrom, S. J. 

Paperback New title.(Ingram Publishers)

BTSB #: 254664 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


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Summary: Wilder is back on his grandad’s ranch in West Texas and a run-in with his dangerous neighbor, Saul, spins Wilder’s head like the blizzard that hits the ranch the day before Thanksgiving. Along with his sister, Molly, Wilder must rethink his ideas about what a trophy is, and how he relates to the wild landscape around him.

Wild river : a novel by Philbrick, W. R. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 714449 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.2 MG Lexile: 630

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction White-water canoeing - Fiction Rafting (Sports) - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Adventure fiction

Summary: When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.