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21) I am a unicorn!
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Frog truly believes he is a unicorn. He has a rainbow-colored (clip on) tail, a pretty horn (party hat), and he can fly, too (on the swings). Goat keeps telling Frog he is not a unicorn. But when you truly believe--poof, sometimes magic happens.
22) The Leaving
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--
Author
Series
Books of Umber volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A boy awakens, blindfolded, with no memory of even his name, but soon meets Lord Umber, an adventurer and inventor, who calls him Happenstance and tells him that he has a very important destiny--and a powerful enemy.
24) Meant to be
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In a companion to Where the Heart Is, the lens turns to younger sister Ivy as she fields the joys and pitfalls of new friendship, hones her passion for baking, and resists the idea of change.
25) Rival magic
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Apprentice wizards Antonia and Moppe must set aside their rivalry and unite their opposing skill sets to save Master Betrys, their island nation, and themselves.
27) Un bicho raro
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
A newly hatched bird doesn't know who he is and questions the animals that he encounters. Tired and hungry, he returns to where he started and suddenly sees a mountain of eggs falling from the sky. Creatures who look just like him come out of the eggs and now he doesn't feel so different after all.
Author
Series
Pride wars volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the distant future, when a new species rules the earth, thirteen-year-old Prince Leo struggles to hide a dangerous and forbidden power he cannot control while trying to unlock the mysteries of his origns"--
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.
31) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
32) Lucky
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Lucky is a young red squirrel who was rescued from a hawk, and now must somehow make his home among the Cloudfoot clan of the larger, gray squirrels who live in the city park--and trouble is brewing for the rival gray squirrels known as the Northenders are planning an invasion.
33) Mixed me!
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, completely comfortable with his identity and his parents--and his wild, curly hair.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Super Rabbit Boy falls down a pipe and discovers himself in a mirror reality where everyone good is now evil, including his mirror self, Super Rabbit Boss, and he must make friends with King Viking (now one of the good guys) and somehow defeat his alter ego in order to save this world--and somehow find a way back to his own reality.
37) My shape is Sam
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a place where jobs are based on shape, Sam, who looks like a square but longs to roll like a circle, discovers his true, unique shape.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This resonant picture book tells the story of one girl who constantly gets asked a simple question that doesn't have a simple answer. A great conversation starter in the home or classroom-a book to share, in the spirit of I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah A. Bobo.
40) Lobizona
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
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