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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 338 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
4) Me-- Jane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 532 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
445 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886, when he returns from the west a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
7) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Description
This work is the author's memoir of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with the author's fiction will recognize Gloversville, New York, once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a good-time, second-fiddle father who were born into this close-knit community. But...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in an accessible Q&A format, here, finally, is the go-to resource for parents hoping to understand and communicate with their gay child. Through their LGBTQ-oriented site, the authors are uniquely experienced to answer parents' many questions and share insight and guidance on both emotional and practical topics. Filled with real-life experiences from gay kids and parents, this is the book gay kids want their parents to read.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out, he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When A.J. and his friends sign up for Beaver Scouts, they find that their scout leader, Miss Blake, is only interested in preparing them for emergency disasters.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, a Newbery Honoree charmingly recounts his childhood growing up in Cold War Russia.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 233 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
15) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
17) Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post.
When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn't long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother,...
19) Rascal
Author
Language
English
Description
The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
20) Cub
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama -- with its complicated friendships, bullies, and cute boys -- when she earns an internship as a cub reporter at a local newspaper in the early 1970s. A (rare) young female reporter takes Cindy under her wing, and Cindy soon learns not only how to write a lede, but also how to respectfully question authority, how to assert herself in a world run by men, and -- as the Watergate scandal...
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