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341) Super Sorda
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Description
"Ir al cole y hacer amigos puede ser muy difícil. Pero ¿ir al cole y hacer amigos cuando llevas un audífono enorme atado al pecho? ¡Para eso hacen falta superpoderes! En estas memorias llenas de humor en forma de novela gráfica, la autora e ilustradora Cece Bell narra cómo perdió el oído cuando era muy pequeña y su experiencia con el Phonic Ear, un potente audífono. El Phonic Ear permite a Cece oír veces, incluso cosas que...
Author
Series
Royal outsiders volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
669 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths and on joyful Christmas...
346) The story of Bodri
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Hédi, a young Jewish girl, spends her days playing with her best friend and their dogs until Adolf Hitler's soldiers take Hédi's family away, while her dog, Bodri, awaits their return.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"--Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsessed over Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and found dating boys much more confusing than many of her friends did. As she grew older, so did her fears and a deep sense of unbelonging. From her first communion to her first girlfriend via a swathe of self-denial, awkward encounters, and everyday courage, Ellie tells her story through gorgeous illustrations--a...
Author
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist...
350) The high desert
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty,...
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