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281873
Barefoot dreams of Petra Luna by Dobbs, Alda P. 

BTSB Prebound(Sourcebooks Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 281873 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG Lexile: 730

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Multicultural


Subjects: Family life - Mexico - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Mexico - History|y1910-1920, Revolution - Fiction Mexican-American Border Region - Fiction


Summary: A tale of one family's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border during the Mexican Revolution that is every bit as relevant and heartbreaking today.


907375
Born behind bars by Venkatraman, Padma 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 907375 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 720 F&P: X

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Prisoners' families - Fiction Homeless persons - Fiction Street children - Fiction India - Fiction


Summary: In Chennai, India, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.


205468
Call and response : the story of Black Lives Matter by Chambers, Veronica 

BTSB Prebound(Versify, 2021)

BTSB #: 205468 Available

Dewey: 323/NAges: 10-14   


Subjects: Black lives matter movement Civil rights movements African Americans Race relations


Summary: Tells the story of how a hashtag became a movement. It follows the activists and organizers on their journeys, examines some of the ways that progressive protests have been fundamental to American history, and shows how marches, rallies, and demonstrations can be vital tools for making meaningful change.


469479
Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South by Hudson, Wade 

BTSB Prebound(Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 469479 Available

Dewey: 323.092/AAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.6 UG Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Subjects: Hudson, Wade Civil rights workers - Louisiana - Biography African American boys - Louisiana - Biography African Americans - Louisiana - Social life and customs|y20th century Civil rights movements - United States Bildungsromans Mansfield (La.) - Biography


Summary: The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.


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889896
Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask by Treuer, Anton 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2021)

BTSB #: 889896 Available

Dewey: 970.004/NAges: 12-18   


Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Miscellanea Native Americans - Social conditions


Summary: Organized by dozens of different questions, some weighty and some minor, but all the time funny, insightful, personal, and interesting, this book does exactly what the title says while adapting its coverage to young readers.


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809545
Fallout : spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown by Sheinkin, Steve 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 809545 Available

Dewey: 972.9106/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.6 MG+ Lexile: 890

Subjects: Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 American espionage - Soviet Union - History|y20th century Soviet espionage - United States - History|y20th century United States - Foreign relations - Soviet Union Soviet Union - Foreign relations - United States


Summary: As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third-and final-world war.


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143204
Flight of the puffin by Braden, Ann 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2021)

BTSB #: 143204 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 650 F&P: Y

Genres: General Fiction


Subjects: Encouragement - Fiction Self-acceptance - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Homeless persons - Fiction Gender identity - Fiction


Summary: Told in multiple voices, seventh-grader Libby sets off a chain of events that brings hope and encouragement to four different individuals across the country who are dealing with bullies, acceptance, homelessness, and grief.


840032
Harriet Tubman : toward freedom by Taylor, Whit 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2021)

BTSB #: 840032 Temp OS

Dewey: 326/BAges: 10-14   


Subjects: Tubman, Harriet,|d1822-1913 Fugitive slaves - United States - Biography African American women - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc Underground railroad


Summary: Graphic novel biography detailing Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and her efforts with other abolitionists to rescue dozens of those still enslaved.


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075690
History of Western art in comics : from prehistory to the Renaissance by Augustin, Marion 

Paperback(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 075690 Available

Dewey: 700.9/NAges: 10-14   


Subjects: Art - History Civilization


Summary: As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them -- about where all the art they see in their lives started. In graphic novel format.


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158116
In the shadow of the fallen towers : the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attacks by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Etch, 2021)

BTSB #: 158116 Available

Dewey: 973.931/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG

Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Comic books, strips, etc Rescue work War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 United States - History


Summary: The consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, both political and personal, were vast, and continue to reverberate today. Don Brown brings his journalistic eye and attention to moving individual stories to help teens contextualize what they already know about the day, as well as broaden their understanding of the chain of events that occurred in the attack's wake. In graphic novel format.


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919420
Many meanings of Meilan by Wang, Andrea 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2021)

BTSB #: 919420 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.7 MG Lexile: 730

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Families - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Moving - Fiction Taiwanese Americans - Fiction


Summary: A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself.


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541598
Meltdown : earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima by Langeland, Deirdre 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 541598 Available

Dewey: 363.34/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8 MG Lexile: 1100

Subjects: Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 Natural disasters - Japan Japan


Summary: The harrowing story of the deadly earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that caused the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster.


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163297
Peacemaker by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 163297 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.4 MG F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Iroquois Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - New York (State) - Fiction Peace - Fiction


Summary: A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.


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741816
Recognize! : an anthology honoring and amplifying Black life

BTSB Prebound(Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 741816 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
Lexile: 960 F&P: Y

Subjects: African Americans - Literary collections American literature - African American authors - Collections Anthologies


Summary: An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future.


163295
Rez dogs by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 163295 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG

Genres: Family Life Animals


Subjects: Novels in verse Abenaki Indians - Fiction COVID-19 (Disease) - Fiction Quarantine - Fiction Grandparents - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Northeastern States - Fiction Dogs - Fiction


Summary: Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic and ends up befriending one of the dogs there.


406247
Samira surfs by Guidroz, Rukhsanna 

Paperback(Kokila, 2022)

BTSB #: 406247 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG+ F&P: Y

Genres: Sports Multicultural


Subjects: Surfing - Fiction Women surfers - Fiction Refugees - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Rohingya (Burmese people) - Fiction Bangladesh - Fiction


Summary: A novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power through surfing.


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158157
Shot in the arm! [Big Ideas That Changed The World Volume: #3]by Brown, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 158157 Available

Dewey: 615.3/NAges: 10-14   
F&P: Z

Subjects: Vaccines - History - Comic books, strips, etc Vaccination - History Medical innovations


Summary: The history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease, from smallpox to COVID-19. Taking a unique perspective, the book is narrated by Englishwoman Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who popularized inoculation in England after encountering it in Turkey as wife of an English diplomat. Traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax, rabies, cholera, and influenza. In graphic novel format.


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Starfish by Fipps, Lisa 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2021)

BTSB #: 335344 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 630 HL F&P: W

Genres: Family Life


Subjects: Obesity - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Texas - Fiction Texas - Fiction


Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.


567221
Thing I'm most afraid of by Levine, Kristin 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2021)

BTSB #: 567221 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.2 MG+ Lexile: 620 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Anxiety disorders - Fiction Refugees - Fiction Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Fiction Vienna (Austria) - History|y20th century - Fiction Austria - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In 1993, twelve-year-old Becca, who struggles with a anxiety disorder, visits her divorced father in Vienna, Austria, where she befriends a Muslim refugee fleeing the Bosnian genocide.


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516022
When the world was ours by Kessler, Liz 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2021)

BTSB #: 516022 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG+ Lexile: 630 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Friendship - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Separation (Psychology) - Fiction


Summary: Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Ma--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe--to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland--will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Based on a true story.


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