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Sierra View Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 976.686 WEATHE 2021
1 available
J 976.686 WEATHE 2021
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South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 976.686 WEATHE 2021
1 available
J 976.686 WEATHE 2021
1 available
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"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
22) Me (Moth)
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Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCBRID 2021
1 available
YA FICTION MCBRID 2021
1 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION MCBRID 2021
1 available
YA FICTION MCBRID 2021
1 available
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Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LUKOFF 2021
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J FICTION LUKOFF 2021
1 available
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In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and...
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
25) My city speaks
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E LEBEUF 2021
1 available
J E LEBEUF 2021
1 available
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"A young girl, who is visually impaired, finds much to celebrate as she explores the city she loves.A young girl and her father spend a day in the city, her city, traveling to the places they go together: the playground, the community garden, the market, an outdoor concert. As they do, the girl describes what she senses in delightfully precise, poetic detail. Her city, she says, 'rushes and stops, and waits and goes.' It 'pitters and patters, and...
26) A bird will soar
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION MYERS 2021
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J FICTION MYERS 2021
1 available
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After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
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In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION HIRANA 2021
1 available
J FICTION HIRANA 2021
1 available
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Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
29) Amina's song
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Amina's voice volume 2
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
J FICTION KHAN 2021
1 available
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Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION YOUNG 2021
1 available
J FICTION YOUNG 2021
1 available
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Brian Young's powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster and comes to realize he's a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
970.0049 GANSWO 2020
1 available
970.0049 GANSWO 2020
1 available
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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Starry River of the Sky volume 1
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIN 2009
1 available
J FICTION LIN 2009
1 available
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South Valleys Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION LIN 2010 UNABRIDGED
1 available
J CD FICTION LIN 2010 UNABRIDGED
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Living in her parents' dilapidated mountain hut, young Minli enjoys listening to her father's tales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon. Delighted by the tales, Minli sets off to find the wise Old Man. Along the way, she meets a variety of colorful characters, including a friend's dragon.
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Ling & Ting volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Early Readers
J E LIN 2010 =
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J E LIN 2010 =
1 available
Gerlach Community Library - Children's Early Readers
J E LIN 2010 =
1 available
J E LIN 2010 =
1 available
South Valleys Library - Children's Early Readers
J E LIN =
1 available
J E LIN =
1 available
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Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E LIN 2018
1 available
J E LIN 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Children's Picture Books
J E LIN 2018
1 available
J E LIN 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Children's Picture Books
J E LIN 2018
1 available
J E LIN 2018
1 available
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A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin. Pat, pat, pat... Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake. Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can't resist a nibble? In this stunning picture book that shines as bright as the stars in the sky,...
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Pacy Lin books volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
Incline Village Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
J FICTION LIN 2006
1 available
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Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
36) Dig
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2019
1 available
YA FICTION KING 2019
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2019
3 available
YA FICTION KING 2019
3 available
Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2019
1 available
YA FICTION KING 2019
1 available
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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Vera’s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she’s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.
So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?
Edgy and gripping, Please
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2016
1 available
YA FICTION KING 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2016
1 available
YA FICTION KING 2016
1 available
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"A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art"--
39) Switch
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Incline Village Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION KING 2021
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YA FICTION KING 2021
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"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 811.54 GRIMES 2021
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J 811.54 GRIMES 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 811.54 GRIMES 2021
1 available
J 811.54 GRIMES 2021
1 available
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"From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators."