Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
3) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
4) El Centinela
Author
Description
Celia está siempre alerta.
Alejandro lleva en su mochila los deberes de varios compañeros.
A Martín no paran de agobiarle por WhatsApp…
¿Quién puede ayudar y protegerlos?
Celia, Alejandro, Martín, también Paola y Elías van a un instituto de Gijón donde según el director, Toño, no hay ningún caso de acoso escolar. Pero cuando vuelve de unas jornadas de formación, se da cuenta que ha estado de lo más equivocado.
Por ello, decide que...
Author
Formats
Description
Struggling with a disapproving grandparent and her inability to fit in with her white peers, a Thai-American high school senior in a small Kansas community secretly designs a clothing line that reflects both cultures.
Kanchana is a Thai-American high school senior in a small Kansas town. She struggles with a disapproving grandparent and her inability to fit in with her white peers. By secretly designing clothing that reflects both cultures, she creates...
8) Dragon Shift
Author
Series
Description
A dragon-sized secret.
A life-changing test.
On the continent of Kaitstud, dragons are feared and thought extinct. The four clans who now rule the continent condemn and slaughter any hints of dragons.
In her sixteenth summer Birgith must face her manifestation test with all the others of her age. The test will prove her ability and solidify her place with the Bear Clan that has raised her.
There's just one problem.
Birgith might shift...
Author
Description
21 Lessons for Understanding the 21st Century is a book that examines the great challenges and choices facing humanity in the 21st century.The author begins by emphasizing the importance of clarity in a world flooded with information. He says that everyone can take part in the debate on the future of humanity, but that it is not so easy. Billions of us are too busy surviving to focus on the issues of the future.The author goes on to explain that his...
10) Identify
Author
Description
Ethan is an anxiety-ridden loner who relies on medication to get through his day. During one of his fairly frequent panic attacks, a girl from school named Gabriella comes to his rescue. Gabe, as she prefers to be known, is facing her own inner turmoil. She has always been a tomboy, but the more pressure she faces to act and dress "like a girl," the more she wonders just who she really is.
When he learns that Gabe is being constantly harassed at...
11) I'm new here
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 390L
Formats
Description
Three students are immigrants from Guatemala, Korea, and Somalia and have trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English in their new American elementary school. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn to feel confident and comfortable in their new school without losing a sense of their home country, language, and identity. Young readers from all backgrounds will appreciate this...
12) Sacrifice
Author
Description
The burden of expectation was pressing down on Naseeka from the day she was born. As a daughter, her duty was to marry well and ensure she did not dishonour her family. As an Australian born seventeen-year-old, all she wanted was to follow her dreams to become a speech therapist and live her best life. But her family had other plans for her, plans that didn't take into consideration her hopes and dreams. She was expected to marry overseas just days...
13) Undertow
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Lyric Walker's life forever changes the night she witnesses the arrival of the Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors. The world's initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turn into paranoia and fear, tranforming her hometown of Coney Island into a miltary zone with violence bubbling just beneath the surface. Despite her best efforts, Lyric is thrust into the middle of this clash of civilizations when the Alpha teenagers are forced...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 29
Formats
Description
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
16) The Orphanage
Author
Description
Penelope Black has lost her parents and is being unceremoniously dumped into the cold, grey and forbidding old Kingsmere Orphanage.
As if losing her parents wasn't bad enough, she now has school lessons for eight hours a day, lives with five other girls in the one room, shares a bathroom with twenty-five more, and the one thing that worries her most is living with boys across the hallway. But those things are the least of Penny's problems.
For the...
Author
Description
This young adult novel by Sheba Karim, author of Skunk Girl, is a funny and affecting coming-of-age story for fans of Jenny Han, Megan McCafferty, and Sara Farizan. A Kirkus Best Book of 2017!
Shabnam Qureshi is facing a summer of loneliness and boredom until she meets Jamie, who scores her a job at his aunt's pie shack. Shabnam quickly finds herself in love, while her former best friend, Farah, who Shabnam has begun to reconnect with, finds Jamie...
Author
Description
The groundbreaking novel that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical! Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from...
19) Earthstone
Author
Description
A human girl and an elven prince embark on an epic quest to save both their worlds....
Tam is a plucky seventeen-year-old girl determined to join the army by any means necessary-even if she has to sneak in. Loren, the prince of the elves, would rather be a healer than a prince. Neither of them wishes to do what society expects of them.
As it turns out, destiny has something else in mind for them altogether, something far grander and infinitely more...
20) Gallows Hill
Author
Formats
Description
Salem, Massachusetts - 1692
Thomas is marked as an outcast the moment he steps off the ship from England. As a Quaker, he's outnumbered and distrusted by Salem's Puritans. And as an orphan without any useful skills, he has nowhere to live and no way to earn his keep. In a stroke of luck-perhaps good, perhaps not-he's taken in by the aged widow Prudence Blevins, who's rumored to be a witch.
Patience has tried all her life to be a good Puritan-obedient...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request