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American Tumbleweeds

by Marta Elva

Published: 2015-10-21

Paperback: 296 pages

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Catherine, Called Birdy

by Karen Cushman

Published: 2012-06-19

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Catherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman of good family, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year—the year 1290. A Newbery Honor Book.

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The Fighting Ground 25th Anniversary Edition

by Avi

Published: 2009-01-27

Paperback: 160 pages

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April 3, 1778He may be just thirteen, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin.So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling men to fight, he runs to join them. He doesn't...

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Can I Get There by Candlelight?

by Jean Slaughter Doty

Published: 2012-10-08

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Young Gail Simmons and her pony befriend a girl from another century.

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Heart of a Samurai

by Margi Preus

Published: 2012-02-01

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In 1841 a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan’s borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way.Manjiro, a 14-year-old boy...

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Wenjack

by Joseph Boyden

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 112 pages

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Shortlisted for the 2017 OLSN Northern Lit AwardAn Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School, not realizing just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a ...

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Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx

by Ivan Sanchez

Published: 2008-10-14

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Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildin...

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It's Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ

by Ivan Sanchez, Luis Cedeño

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 180 pages

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Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 60s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. Raised in the 70s, Wiz le...

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Geographies of Home

by Loida Maritza Perez

Published: 2000-03-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a dec...

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Almost a Woman: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

by Esmeralda Santiago

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a bal...