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1. Brown girl dreaming

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Series:
Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominations 2016
Newbery Medal Honor 2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...

2. Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitans: A Modern Girl's Dream Dictionary

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Author:
Brown, Josie
Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Online Hoopla Collection
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In a world filled with Starbucks, E!, designer water, and reality T.V., is it any wonder that pop culture icons are invading our dreams? With insightful humor (a sure sign that the only thing implanted in her cheek is her tongue), author Josie Brown explains dream symbolism in terms that any young, hip woman can readily comprehend. What does it mean to dream of Paris (France), Paris (Hilton), Prada, blogging, bridesmaids, and more? Josie can tell...

3. The dancing girls of Lahore: selling love and hoarding dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district

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Author:
Brown, T. Louise, 1963-
Publisher:
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
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4. The bluest eye

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Author:
Morrison, Toni
Series:
myPerspectives
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni...

5. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Alice in Wonderland
Tantor unabridged classics
Rainbow classics
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

6. "National Velvet"

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Author:
Bagnold, Enid
Series:
Charming classics
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.

7. Under the lilacs

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Language:
English
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Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.

8. Another Brooklyn: a novel

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Series:
New York Times Bestsellers Fiction
New York Times Bestseller Fiction
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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"For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise...

9. An American tragedy

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Author:
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Series:
Signet classic
Vintage classics
Language:
English
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"Clyde Griffiths was born poor and is poorly educated, but his prospects begin to improve when he is offered a job by a wealthy uncle who owns a shirt factory. Soon he achieves a managerial position, and despite being warned to stay away from the women he manages, he becomes involved with Roberta, a poor factory worker who falls in love with him. At the same time, he catches the eye of Sondra, the glamorous socialite daughter of another factory owner,...

10. Swing time

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Author:
Smith, Zadie
Language:
English
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Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.

11. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

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Author:
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

12. Iron gold

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Author:
Brown, Pierce, 1988-
Series:
Red rising saga volume 4
Red Rising trilogy volume 4
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society, and abolish the color-coded caste system. But the Rising has shattered everything, and brought endless war. New foes emerge to threaten what has been earned, and throughout the worlds other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever. A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could...

13. One crazy summer

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Author:
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Series:
One Crazy Summer
Gaither Sisters volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicatedpoet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

14. Grey: fifty shades of grey as told by Christian

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Author:
James, E. L.
Series:
Fifty Shades
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Offers a look at the events of "Fifty Shades of Grey" through the eyes of the dominant Christian Grey. "See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey. In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world. Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined,...

15. Watch me disappear: a novel

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Author:
Brown, Janelle
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"-- "Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously,...

16. A Charlie Brown Valentine

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Publisher:
Paramount
Pub. Date:
[2004], c2002
Language:
English
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North Haven Children's DVD
j DVD Peanuts
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Valentine's Day is only a week away and the Peanuts kids have been bitten by the love bug! Sally hope to receive a Valentine from Linus; Lucy wants to make sweet music with Schroeder; Peppermint Patty is trying to capture the attentions of the wishy-washy "Chuck"; and Charlie Brown dreams of taking the little red-haired girl to the Valentine's Day dance.

17. Park Avenue summer

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Author:
Rosen, Renée
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Book, Large Print
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Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief-Helen Gurley Brown shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits... New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly...

18. Red at the bone

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
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Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.

19. Full cicada moon

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Author:
Hilton, Marilyn
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

20. Harbor me

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"-- Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories ... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat - by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder...
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