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Diverse Voices February 2024 |
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When I Wrap My Hair
by Shauntay Grant
This joyful, inspiring and powerful love letter to hair wrapping ties together past and present as it recognizes and demonstrates how knowledge is passed through generations.
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Grandma's Roof Garden
by Tang Wei
On the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building, Granny teaches the neighborhood children how to care for her vegetable garden like she does—with love, patience and pride, in this beautiful story of how one person can bring together an entire community.
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Do You Know Them?
by Shana Keller
Inspired by the printed newspaper ads placed by African Americans who were separated from family members by the Civil War, enslavement and emancipation, this moving story follows Lettie who saves every penny she earns for something that could bring her whole family together.
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Who Got Game? Baseball: Amazing But True Stories!
by Derrick Barnes
An illustrated book of true sports stories about baseball for middle grade readers by award-winning author Derrick Barnes, Who Got Game?: Baseball collects the coolest and most surprising tales about a favorite sport, from unsung heroes to priceless stories, stats, and amazing comebacks.
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Princess Kira's Kiwi Jubilee
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
In this all-new chapter book adventure based on the Netflix series about girl power, self-expression and friendship, readers can journey to the four fruitdoms with curious, kindhearted, can-do princesses Penny Pineapple, Kira Kiwi, Rita Raspberry and Bea Blueberry.
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The Best Diwali Ever
by Sonali Shah
With the Festival of Lights nearly here, Ariana hopes her younger brother, Rafi, doesn't ruin everything with his clumsiness until she learns an important lesson about celebrating the people you love for who they are.
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Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers
by Ibram X. Kendi
An award-winning historian presents the remarkable true story of Cudjo Lewis, the only person alive to recount the years he spent in slavery, from being captured and held in a barracoon for sale by human traders to being enslaved until the end of the Civil War.
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Wishing on a Star With Estrella: a Diary From 2022 to 2023
by Vanessa Ramos
Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
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Ready? Set. Puppies!
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Raymond and Roxy love playing together—and so do their pets! One day, Raymond learns that Roxy's dog, Flo, is going to have puppies! Raymond does everything fast so he can hardly wait. How long will it take those puppies to be born? And will his parents say yes to a puppy of his very own?
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All You Have to Do
by Autumn Allen
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
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Who Put This Song On?
by Morgan Parker
Seventeen-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored.
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The God of High School 1
by Yongje Park
Entering “The God of High School” fighting tournament that promises the winner anything they want, Taekwondo specialist Mori Jin must decide how far he's willing to go to become a true god.
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Seven Minutes in Candyland
by Brian Wasson
When rumors fly that he's not just the master of sweets, due to his underground candy-selling hustle, but hearts, too, Kalvin, the son of two famous therapists, revels in his newfound fame helping heartbroken teens, but his ego, a jealous boyfriend and a vengeful competitor threaten everything.
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This Place is Still Beautiful
by XiXi Tian
Victims of a hate crime, the estranged Flanagan sisters reunite in their small Midwestern town, where tensions are running high, and navigate an unexpected summer during which an explosive secret threatens to tear them apart forever.
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The Forest Demands its Due
by Kosoko Jackson
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
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Shut Up, This is Serious
by Carolina Ixta
Belâen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about, because he's Black, and her parents are racist.
Weighed by a depression she can't seem to shake, Belâen helps Leti, hangs out with an older guy, and cuts a lot of class. She soon realizes, though, that distractions are only temporary. Leti is becoming a mother. Classmates are getting ready for college. But what about Belâen? What future is there for girls like her?"
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Just Happy to be Here
by Naomi Kanakia
Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is, judged on her merits--not on her transness. But there's no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she's thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood means and whether the club should exist at all.
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A Crown So Cursed
by L. L. McKinney
When she and her crew are attacked by Nightmares unlike any they've ever seen, Alice must step between the coming darkness and the mortal world once more, discovering that the monsters aren't waiting for her on the other side of the Veil—but in her own backyard.
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Iron Widow
by Xiran Jay Zhao
Offering herself up as a concubine-pilot to assassinate the man responsible for her sister's death, 18-year-old Zetian discovers her true destiny as an Iron Widow and must use her strength to force her society to stop failing its women and girls.
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
by Avery Cunningham
In 1921 Chicago, Nelly Sawyer, the daughter of the“wealthiest Negro in America,” works undercover to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate with the help of Jay Shorey, the low-level manager of the city's swankiest speakeasy, who introduces her to a whole new world.
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Familia
by Lauren E. Rico
A fact-checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco, takes a DNA test and discovers she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has been desperately trying to find her for 25 years, despite her parents saying it is impossible.
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Say You'll Be Mine: a Novel
by Naina Kumar
Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth's wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them.
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All the Right Notes
by Dominic Lim
Agreeing to a charity performance in his hometown, an aspiring Broadway composer runs into a former pretty-boy jock from college who is now one of Hollywood's hottest celebrities and the pair discover an undeniable attraction.
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The Bullet Swallower
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.
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Feel-good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
by Ali Abdaal
In this revolutionary book, Ali reveals how the science of feel-good productivity can transform your life. He introduces the three hidden 'energisers' that underpin enjoyable productivity, the three 'blockers' we must overcome to beat procrastination, and the three 'sustainers' that prevent burnout and help us achieve lasting fulfillment. He recounts the inspiring stories of founders, Olympians, and Nobel-winning scientists who embody the principles of Feel-Good Productivity. And he introduces the simple, actionable changes that you can use to achieve more and live better, starting today.
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