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• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Audiobook available -- Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tuesdays With Morrie

  An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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  Audiobook available. --Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Audiobook available -- Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

• The Jade Peony

  a Novel

  Choy, Wayson, 1939-2019,

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  The novel is made up of the stories of three siblings growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s.

• The House on Mango Street

  Cisneros, Sandra,

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  The set of vignettes charts the life of young Mexican-American girl Esperanza, as she grows during the year, both physically and emotionally. She begins to write as a way of expressing herself and as a way to escape the suffocating effect of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ready Player One

  Cline, Ernest,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS--a sprawling virtual utopia that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  Dahl, Roald,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

• Funny in Farsi

  a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

  Dumas, Firoozeh,

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  In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paper Towns

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—summoning him for an ingenious campaign of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kite Runner

  Hosseini, Khaled,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul during the final days of the monarchy. When Amir is forced to flee with his prominent and wealthy father for a new life in California, he leaves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Kill a Mockingbird

  Lee, Harper,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wrinkle in Time

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Audiobook available -- Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver

  Lowry, Lois

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  Audiobook available. -- Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nine Perfect Strangers

  Moriarty, Liane,

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  Audiobook available -- Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wonder

  Palacio, R. J.,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silver Linings Playbook

  Quick, Matthew, 1973-

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  Film adaptation available -- During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daisy Jones & The Six

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  Audiobook available -- Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists... But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Racing in the Rain

  Stein, Garth,

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  Audiobook and film adaptation available -- Enzo the dog tells the story of his life with Denny, a race car driver, and reflects on all he has learned about human beings.

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  Stephens, Simon, 1971-

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  Audiobook available -- Christopher, stands beside Mrs. Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the…Read moreRead more of this annotation