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Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
3) Criss cross
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Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
5) Like
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In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
6) Raven's gate
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Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
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"See?" cries the calf. "Uni means one, and corn means horn!" Even their baby picture proves it: they were born with one horn! But as the eager little calf continues their research, a budding identity crisis arises when they realize they don't quite check all the boxes-should a certain lack of moonlight sparkle or silky mane or rainbow poop decide the issue. Perhaps some unexpected encouragement from a pack of "real" unicorns might be just the assurance...
8) Shark baby
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A shark, still in his egg case, sets out to determine what kind of shark he is.
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"Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and identity"--OCLC.
10) Eee-Moo
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Mistakenly believing himself to be an emu, a newly-hatched platypus sets out on a long journey, using various forms of transportation and aided by new friends, to reach Australia.
11) Why am I me?
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In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
12) Patchwork
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"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--
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The Notebook of Doom is missing and Alexander and his fellow-monster hunters, Rip and Nikki, are convinced that the boss-monster has it; but is that monster the mysterious Principal Vanderpants, who is certainly behaving oddly, or someone else--and they need to figure that out quickly because a mistake could have deadly consequences for Stermont Elementary.
17) I like myself!
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In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance.
19) What can I be?
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A young girl wonders what she can be as she tries on different costumes from her dress-up box, and finds that being herself is the best choice.
20) Best friends-ish
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So far second grade is not living up to Audrey Locke's hopes, because she is not really the best at anything. The other girls leave her out, and even her Diego, her best friend from first grade, is hanging out with the other boys. But things may be getting worse, because starting Monday she will not even be the only Audrey in second grade. To Audrey L (as she must now be known) this is looking like a disaster, but just maybe she has more in common...