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Best Chapter Books 2022
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
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"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
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Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Native American Voices for Young Adults
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Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Native American Voices for Young Adults
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In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
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Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Teen - Native American Heritage Month 2022
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Native American Heritage Month (teens)
Teen - Native American Heritage Month 2022
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"Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative...
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