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641) Girl made of stars
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara's friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think. Can her brother really be guilty of such a violent act? Torn between her family and her sense of right and wrong, Mara feels lost, and it doesn't help that things are strained with her ex-girlfriend, Charlie. As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie come together in the aftermath of this terrible crime, Mara must face a trauma from...
642) Bus stop
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
c2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's a snowy day at the bus stop. All the neighborhood kids, from Antoine and Mahmoud to Zoey, arrive alphabetically and bide their time--catching snowflakes, playing hopscotch, scooping snowballs, stomping, whooping, and wondering, Where is the bus?" --back cover.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian -- half, his mom's side -- and his first ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A spirited eighty-year-old Icelandic woman reflects on her life as she lies alone in a garage in Reykjavik, waiting to die"--
"'I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy.' Herra Björnsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three--she has booked her cremation appointment, at a crispy 1,000 degrees, so it won't be long. But until then she has...
646) Taxi: Taksi
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Persian
Description
Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
Author
Series
Momotaro volume 1
Publisher
Disney*HYPERION
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Xander Miyamoto would rather do almost anything than listen to his sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Stedman, drone on about weather disasters happening around the globe. If Xander could do stuff he's good at instead, like draw comics and create computer programs, and if Lovey would stop harassing him for being half-Asian, he might not be counting the minutes until the dismissal bell. When spring break begins at last, Xander plans to spend it playing computer...
648) Where we come from
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving the death of his mother, his father, Victor, is...
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