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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption -- a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade. Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all. When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Former Gulf War Air Force pilot Corey Grace's campaign to become the 2008 Republican presidential candidate is put in jeopardy by a secret in his past, his brother's homosexuality, and his blooming romance with an African-American Hollywood actress who supports stem cell research.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you're stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.
Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you're co-located, the "mute" and "stop...
Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you're co-located, the "mute" and "stop...