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A place for us : a novel /

Mirza, Fatima Farheen, 1991-


School Library Journal starred, July 2018. Booklist, May 2018. Kirkus Review, April 2018. ". . . unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding--a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead totheir son's estrangement--the reckoning of parents who strove to pass on their cultures and traditions to their children; and of children who in turn struggle to balance authenticity in themselves with loyalty to the home they came from . . ."--Publisher provided.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, July 2018. Booklist, May 2018. Kirkus Review, April 2018. ". . . unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding--a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead totheir son's estrangement--the reckoning of parents who strove to pass on their cultures and traditions to their children; and of children who in turn struggle to balance authenticity in themselves with loyalty to the home they came from . . ."--Publisher provided.

Date Published:2018

Careers in digital animation

Furgang, Kathy.


Computer-assisted animation -- Animation careers and the production process -- Careers in computer-generated animation -- Careers in video games, modeling, and simulations -- Preparing for a career in digital animation -- Staying on top: networking and lifelong learning. Library Media Connection starred, May 2014. Provides an overview of various careers in the field of digital animation, with information on preparing for a career, choosing the best field, networking, and other related topics.
Date Published:2014

Computer-assisted animation -- Animation careers and the production process -- Careers in computer-generated animation -- Careers in video games, modeling, and simulations -- Preparing for a career in digital animation -- Staying on top: networking and lifelong learning. Library Media Connection starred, May 2014. Provides an overview of various careers in the field of digital animation, with information on preparing for a career, choosing the best field, networking, and other related topics.

Date Published:2014

Breaking up is hard to do : stories about falling out of love by four incredible authors /


Last stand / by Niki Burnham -- Don't mind me / by Terri Clark -- Just plain Lisa / by Ellen Hopkins -- Party foul / by Lynda Sandoval. School Library Journal, June 2008. Kirkus Review, April 2008. Library Media Connection, March 2009. A collection of four stories by women authors that explore the joys and sorrows of falling in and out of love.
Date Published:2008

The Glass Castle : A Memoir /

Walls, Jeannette.


Restricted to students in grade 11-12. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Library Journal, February 2005. Booklist starred, February 2005. Pub Weekly, January 2005. Kirkus Starred, December 2004. New York Times, March 2005. Teacher Librarian, October 2006. The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
Date Published:2005

Restricted to students in grade 11-12. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Library Journal, February 2005. Booklist starred, February 2005. Pub Weekly, January 2005. Kirkus Starred, December 2004. New York Times, March 2005. Teacher Librarian, October 2006. The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

Date Published:2005

The silver chair

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.


Kirkus Review. Christian Library Journal starred, August 2004. Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
Date Published:1994

The lightning thief

Riordan, Rick.


Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Date Published:2005

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

Date Published:2005

Spellbound

McDonald, Janet, 1953-


"Frances Foster books." Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2002. Booklist starred, November 2001. Book Report starred, March 2002. Publisher's Weekly, November 2001. Horn Book, January 2002. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2001. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2001. Kirkus Review, October 2001. Multicultural Review, June 2002. Kliatt, September 2001. Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
Date Published:2001

"Frances Foster books." Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2002. Booklist starred, November 2001. Book Report starred, March 2002. Publisher's Weekly, November 2001. Horn Book, January 2002. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2001. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2001. Kirkus Review, October 2001. Multicultural Review, June 2002. Kliatt, September 2001. Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.

Date Published:2001

Class conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby


School Library Journal, July 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2009. Provides background on the life of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and the influences that shaped his life, features fourteen articles that explore class conflict as portrayed in his novel "The Great Gatsby," and examines issues of social class in the twenty-first century.
Date Published:2008

The ballad of songbirds and snakes

Collins, Suzanne.


"A Hunger Games novel"--Front cover. School Library Journal, May 2020. Publishers Weekly, May 2020. Kirkus Starred, June 2020. Booklist, June 2020. Horn Book, September 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2020. "Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games"--OCLC.
Date Published:2020

1984

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. 1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where surveillance, brainwashing, and execution are the state's tools for erasing personal will. His foray into passion ends with his arrest by the Thought Police and challenges him to be a hero.
Date Published:1991

Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. 1984 depicts a gray world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, quashing freedom in a totalitarian world, where news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live by rote. Dissidents are disciplined into being willing tools of their masters. Winston Smith lives in this social system where surveillance, brainwashing, and execution are the state's tools for erasing personal will. His foray into passion ends with his arrest by the Thought Police and challenges him to be a hero.

Date Published:1991

There goes the neighborhood

Adia, Jade.


, January 2024. School Library Journal, April 2023. Publishers Weekly, January 2023. Booklist, April 2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), April 2023. "In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Miles Morales: Spider-Man.

Ahmed, Saladin.


"Marvel." "Spider-Man created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko." "Captain America teams up with Spider-Man and the Rhino to track down Tombstone and to save the children he's performing experiments on"--Amazon.
Date Published:2023

10 blind dates

Elston, Ashley.


School Library Journal, October 2019. Publishers Weekly, August 2019. Booklist, September 2019. Kirkus Review, August 2019. After an unexpected breakup, seventeen-year-old Sophie lets members of her large, eccentric extended family set her up on ten blind dates during Christmas vacation.
Date Published:2019

Elie Wiesel's Night


Title from Web page (viewed on July 20, 2010). A collection of essays and critical viewpoints of Wiesel's memoir, Night. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
Date Published:2010

Freshman year

Mai, Sarah.


"Christy Ottaviano Books." School Library Journal, April 2024. Booklist, February 2024. Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist.
Date Published:2024

Yellow line

Olsen, Sylvia, 1955-


Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2006. In a small Canadian community, the line separating Natives and whites begins to blur for Vince as finds himself falling for a First Nations girl.
Date Published:2005

Extraterrestrial life.

Rasmussen, Richard Michael


Discusses the possibility of life on other planets, what conditions would support this situation, and how we are searching for such lifeforms. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Date Published:1991

Girls with sharp sticks

Young, Suzanne.


The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardian, they receive a well-rounded education that promises to make them better. Obedient girls, free from troublesome opinions or individual interests. But the girls carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears.
Date Published:2019

Transportation in different places

Morganelli, Adrianna, 1979-,


Includes index.
Date Published:2015

The passion of Artemisia

Vreeland, Susan.


After Artemisia Gentileschi, a promising young painter, is raped by her instructor, a papal court orders her torture and her father betrays her. Shamed but not vanquished, she asks her harsh parent to arrange her marriage to another painter and, thus vindicated in the eyes of society and the church, she begins a new life. But not a happy one. Artemisia's visceral passion to create art -- specifically, to depict on canvas the kind of strong heroine she herself has become -- threatens to overwhelm her roles as wife and daughter. Her struggle to reconcile her conflicting passions lies at the heart of Artemisia's story.
Date Published:2003

After Artemisia Gentileschi, a promising young painter, is raped by her instructor, a papal court orders her torture and her father betrays her. Shamed but not vanquished, she asks her harsh parent to arrange her marriage to another painter and, thus vindicated in the eyes of society and the church, she begins a new life. But not a happy one. Artemisia's visceral passion to create art -- specifically, to depict on canvas the kind of strong heroine she herself has become -- threatens to overwhelm her roles as wife and daughter. Her struggle to reconcile her conflicting passions lies at the heart of Artemisia's story.

Date Published:2003