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One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and The Recycling Women of the Gambia by...
"I think that when you abuse the environment, you abuse yourself."When Isatou Ceesay was growing up in Njau, the Gambia she discovered that plastic bags easily replaced her broken palm leaf basket....
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In A Perfect World by Trish Doller
Seventeen-year-old Caroline Kelly is stunned to learn she will be spending her senior year of high school living in Cairo, Egypt. Caroline had planned to spend her summer vacation working at Cedar...
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Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries by Don Brown
Rare Treasure tells the story of the greatest "fossilist" of all time - Mary Anning of Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. Mary was born on May 21, 1799 to a cabinetmaker who supplemented his income by...
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What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard
Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Barnes finds herself entering Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility for her anorexia. In the lobby Elizabeth meets Lexi a very thin girl from Long Island Massapequa. Elizabeth...
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Look Up! by Robert Burleigh
Over one hundred years ago, a woman astronomer named Henrietta Swan Leavitt made a remarkable discovery that changed forever how astronomers viewed the universe. For her breakthrough, Henrietta Leavitt...
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That Burning Summer by Lydia Syson
That Burning Summer covers a series of fictional events during the summer of 1940, just as World War II is ramping up. Set in the Romney coast area of England the story opens in July just after Peggy...
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Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amy Novesky
Cloth Lullaby presents the life an work of avant-garde French artist, Louise Bourgeois who is best remembered for her sculptures of giant spiders. Louise Josephine, born on Christmas Day in 1911 in...
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DVD: Temple Grandin
"...They knew I was different, but not LESS."Temple Grandin is a biopic about the famous scientist of the same name, who specializes in animal behaviour and who revolutionized the treatment of animals...
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Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator
Amelia Earhart and the mystery of her tragic attempt to fly around the world still captures the imagination of people everywhere. The Legend of the Lost Aviator presents Amelia's life story beginning...
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Bang by Barry Lyga
Fourteen-year-old Sebastian Cody accidentally shot and killed his baby sister, Lola when he was four years old. In an effort to cope with her death all memory of her has been banished from their home...
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Of Numbers and Stars by D. Anne Love
Of Numbers and Stars is a picture book about a famous Greek mathematician who lived over 1500 years ago in Alexandra, Greece. Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, a professor of mathematics at the...
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Halfway Normal by Barbara Dee
Halfway Normal is a novel that explores the struggles a young girl encounters reintegrating back into life outside a hospital after her cancer treatment.Twelve year old Norah Levy underwent two years...
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Under A War Torn Sky by L.M. Elliot
Henry Forester, just nineteen years old is a co-pilot of a Eighth Air Force bomber crew stationed in Britain. Today's mission will be Henry's fifteenth but he's nervous. Because the average number of...
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
Rear Admiral Dr.Grace Murray Hopper was born in 1906 in New York City. Grace was the oldest of three children, having a younger brother and sister. Her childhood was filled with typical activities of...
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You Bring The Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
You Bring The Distant Near follows three generations of women from an Indian-American family who immigrated from England to America. The novel explores the challenges they face and is told from various...
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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became The World's Most...
This beautiful picture book tells the story of a young girl named Eugenie Clark who was so fascinated by sharks and that she devoted her life to learning more about them. Eugenie was born in 1922 at a...
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It All Comes Down To This by Karen English
It All Comes Down To This is a story set in the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles. Sophia LaBranche is a twelve-year-old black girl who lives with her older sister Lily and her father who is a lawyer and...
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The Treasure Box by Margaret Wild
The Treasure Box is a sensitive portrayal of the effects of war through the medium of a picture book. The opening line sets the tone of this story immediately."When the enemy bombed the library,...
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The Secret History of Us by Jessi Kirby
Olivia (Liv) Jordan struggles to awaken after being kept sedated for eight days. Her parents reveal that she's been in a car accident, that her car was hit by another driver and sent plunging over the...
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Matylda, Bright and Tender by Holly McGhee
Ten-year-old Susquenhanna Indiana (Sussy) Reed's special friendship with Guy Hose began in kindergarten. Like Sussy, Guy chose the Potato Heads during free play time, instead of the costume closet. It...
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