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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
MCL - John Newbery Medal
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
MCL - John Newbery Medal
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Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the...
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2020
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WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.
Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...
When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother,...
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.
Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...
When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother,...
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In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
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2022.
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Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school ... Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run ... and face the truth within...
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Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to her memory that made her forget everything that happened...
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2023.
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First edition.
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"Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to "give her a better life" in the United States, Maria is shipped to a host family across the world. When Maria arrives...
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2022.
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"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest...Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary...Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser...When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her...But things quickly dissolve into chaos,...
11) Bit of Earth, A
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"Karuna Riazi has a way with words. This story will find its way into your heart."-Tae Keller, Newbery Medalist for When You Trap a Tiger
"As timeless as it is timely, A Bit of Earth is a rare gift."-Laurel Snyder, author of National Book Award nominee Orphan Island
"Extraordinary, poetic, and inventive. A Bit of Earth is such a special book. Prickles and all, Maria Latif captured my whole heart."-Jasmine Warga, author of Newbery Honor book Other...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 1
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English
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"When A Billionaire's Fortune is Up for Grabs, a Murderous Schemer is Willing to Kill in Six Murders Too Many, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham Ex-special forces operative, ex-cop, and newly forged private investigator, Carlos McCrary, lands a client whose uber-wealthy father has died. It seems Daddy had a sweet young wife who recently gave birth to a child she claims is heir to half the family fortune. It looks like a simple paternity...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 2
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English
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Crime Boss Gunned Down, Chuck McCrary Accused of Murder in Double Fake, Double Murder, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When an organized crime boss is gunned down in the street, the police finger one of their own homicide detectives, Jorge Castellano, whose wife was threatened. Desperate, Castellano hires his best friend, Mexican-American private investigator Carlos "Chuck" McCrary, to find out who framed him.
A disgraced former police...
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2019
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English
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This memoir by David Cassidy tells the real story behind his phenomenal ’70s stardom—and the sadness that shadowed it. Includes photos and a new afterword.
Barely out of his teens, David Cassidy landed a role on a new sitcom about a musical family that toured in a psychedelic bus. The critics blasted it—but TV viewers loved it! And the young female audience especially loved Keith Partridge. Not only did...
Barely out of his teens, David Cassidy landed a role on a new sitcom about a musical family that toured in a psychedelic bus. The critics blasted it—but TV viewers loved it! And the young female audience especially loved Keith Partridge. Not only did...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 4
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English
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Radical Environmentalist Turns Murderer in Dangerous Friends, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Michelle Babcock expected free tutoring in college chemistry when she slept with James Ponder, a graduate student obsessed with global warming protests. Ponder duped her into helping with an environmental terrorist attack and murdered two people in the name of saving the planet. Now Michelle faces a lifetime in prison unless Private Investigator...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 6
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English
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Inside the Gangs and Outside the Law in McCrary's Justice, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When a Nebraska farmer's daughter is trafficked by a South Florida sex slave ring, her cryptic texts point to a foreign diplomat. The police-their hands tied by diplomatic immunity-direct the distraught father to Carlos McCrary, PI, for the kind of justice only McCrary can deliver.
McCrary soon uncovers a network of sexual slavery and drug trafficking...
17) Wish trap
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Star friends volume 2
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[2017]
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English
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Do you believe in magic? Ionie and her friends do and when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure unfolds. Ionie and her star animal, a wildcat called Sorrel, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. When a young girl, Paige, wishes she could be on the gym team, she doesn't realise that a Wish Shade hiding in her garden will make it come true, in the worst way imaginable. Can the Star Friends stop the...
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[2021]
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English
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Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii, this television series follows humorless, monosyllabic Steve McGarrett and his detective squad as they enforce the law and match wits with a gallery of memorable villains, including the deadly Wo Fat. McGarrett's pithy phrases--"Book 'em, Dan-o," in particular--have permanently joined the pop-cultural vocabulary
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