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1) Watercress
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
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E WAN
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Wan
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Talking Book E Wan
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Wan
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Talking Book E Wan
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Bellshire Elementary - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Wan
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Talking Book E Wan
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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Molly's mother imagines stories to lull her to sleep, from swooping birds to a quiet beach, and soon one of them has nodded off.
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"Joseph McCoy plans a secret project to help save an all-black Civilian Conservation Corps camp from being forced out of town in 1935 Elsinore, California"--
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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Donelson Middle - Teen Fiction
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"It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders as liberators; but soon the Nazis start rounding up Jewish Ukrainians, and Krystia is faced with a terrible choice--risk everything by helping her Jewish friends and neighbors to hide, or save herself and her family by doing nothing"--OCLC.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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F MOR
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In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
6) Blue skies
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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F BUS
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Donelson Middle - Teen Fiction
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F BUS
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Fiction
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F BUS
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France sends the Merci Train to the United States to thank America for helping France during and after WWII, and one of the train stops will be the small town of Gladiola, Texas, where ten-year-old Glory Bea hopes for the greatest miracle--that her missing-in-action father will be on the train.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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F Sta
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Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Tuc
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Crieve Hall Elementary - Kids Fiction
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E Tuc
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Dodson Elementary - Everyone
E Tuc
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E Tuc
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Description
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
9) Ghost boys
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
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F Rho
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F RHO
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F RHO
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F RHO
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F RHO
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Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Jac
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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F Jac
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Cora Howe School - Teen Fiction
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F Jac
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In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Fiction
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Explore! Community School - Kids Fiction
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F WOO
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Twelve-year-old Gabriel gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, an African American World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Croft Middle - Teen Fiction
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Bel
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Fifth-grader Billy must transfer from his all-white, Catholic school to a public school, where he becomes best friends with Foster, who is black, just before the Red Summer of 1919.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Eng
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"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--Provided by publisher.
15) Hurricane child
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F CAL
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F CAL
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F Cal
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F Cal
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F Cal
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F Cal
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Croft Middle - Teen Audiobook
PLA F Cal
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PLA F Cal
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Dupont Hadley Middle - Teen Audiobook
PLA F Cal
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PLA F Cal
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F Cal
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
16) The war outside
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
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Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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Croft Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Hes
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
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F HES
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
18) They went left
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
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Hunter's Lane High - Teen Fiction
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"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--Provided by publisher.
19) Esperanza rising
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Rya
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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F Rya
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Goodlettsville Middle - Teen Fiction
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F SWI
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Granbery Elementary - Kids Fiction
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F SWI
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction
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F SWI
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eBook
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Run along the Mississippi with Tom Sawyer. Confront the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels. Fight the evil sheriff of Nottingham with Robin Hood. Discover how Robinson Crusoe survived on a deserted island. QED has chosen four fantastic adventure stories for boys to continue our successful series Classic Collection! Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favourite classic stories will capture...