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"Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. Ezra gets into a terrible fight with Matt at school defending Nora, and that same night, Matt's house burns down. Instantly, Ezra becomes a prime suspect. Knowing he won't get a fair deal, and knowing his innocence, Ezra's family sends him away to run traplines with his grandfather in a remote part of Canada, while the investigation is ongoing. But the Schroeders are looking for him..."--

"Long, long ago it was so busy. Nobody had time to stop for a moment. Everything and everyone had to be higher, faster, further, bigger, prettier, more!" Thus begins Grandpa Hedgehog's story of the Rush Era. A time not so different from our own, where everyone was constantly on the move and no one had time to stop for a moment, even to care for the forest. Everyone except for Quill. From acclaimed author-illustrator Marjie Tolman and translated from Dutch by award-winning translator David Colmer, Quill the Forest Keeper is a bedtime story for our time, and one that's sure to make you stop and smell the flowers"--

It's the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire, but people get by. But it's about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie's museum saying that he's from the future--and telling her what is to come--she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice.

"Granny may be old, but she's certainly not feeble - or idle! She's built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building. She collects thrown-away produce and feeds it to her chicks and geese - or composts it for the garden. She waters, weeds, and teaches the neighborhood children to care for the garden like she does: with love, patience, and pride. And come harvest time, Granny gathers her fresh produce and cooks up delicious meals for her friends and family...or gives them their own bags of yummy treasures so they can cook on their own!"--Publisher marketing.

WINNER, MICHAEL L. PRINTZ AWARDWINNER, CHRISTOPHER AWARDWINNER, MIDDLE EAST BOOK AWARDWALTER AWARD HONOR National BestsellerNPR Best of the YearNew York Times Best of the YearAmazon Best of the YearBooklist Editors’ ChoiceBookPage Best of the YearPublishers Weekly Best of the YearWall Street Journal Best of the YearToday.com Best of the YearNECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection     “A modern masterpiece.”—New York Times   “Supple, sparkling and original.”—Wall Street Journal   “Mesmerizing.”—TODAY.com   “This book could change the world.”—BookPage   “Like nothing else you've read or ever will read.”—Linda Sue Park   “It hooks you right from the opening line.”–NPR     ★ “A modern epic.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ “A rare treasure of a book.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ “A story that soars.”—The Bulletin (starred) ★ “At once beautiful and painful.”—School Library Journal  (starred) ★ “Raises the literary bar in children’s lit.” —Booklist  (starred) ★ “Poignant and powerful.” —Foreword Reviews (starred) ★ “One of the most extraordinary books of the year.” —BookPage (starred)     A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it?   “A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee,” Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family’s history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel’s story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother’s vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S.   Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth.   A tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard. - Daniel is a major force and one of the youngest publishers in the industry. - He’s an #OwnVoices author, public speaker, and storyteller. - A pulled-from-the headlines immigrant story. - Thematically relevant as immigration stories take center stage in politics, news, and media in 2020. - Daniel challenges how we tell stories by using traditional Persian folk tales - A fantastic literary whirlwind  that questions western narrative structures.

When the opportunity arises, Shirley, the daughter of immigrants who live above their corner grocery store, turns some overlooked gefilte fish into a marketing strategy that changes the flavor of the neighborhood.

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryu in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they¿ve become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryu, Yuharu, but¿ ¿Kohei has a memory of the big ryu. He knows that¿s impossible, but still, it¿s there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa ¿ Ojiisan ¿ gazing up at the big ryu with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he¿d go on a grand quest to bring the big ryu back, to get Ojiisan to smile again. But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time. Kohei needs to find the big ryu now, before it¿s too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isolde¿s Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn¿t have a choice. In The Lost Ryu, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which we¿ll go to protect the people we love.

"A long ago accident. An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can't always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue, so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse"--

Eighteen-year-old Constance is not interested in marriage or in being a ?young lady.? But for a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, that's just about all that's available to her. When her parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her age, she's powerless to resist. Stance couldn't possibly find her newfound husband less appealing, but what can she do? Here's what: Four months into the marriage, she can slip out of their bed in the middle of the night, and she can put on his clothes. She can look in the mirror and like what she sees. She can sneak out of the house before dawn and visit the baker's scrawny son, who has just been drafted into the army, and offer to take his place. Vive l'Empereur! Hot on Stance's tail all the while is her younger brother Pieter, determined to bring Stance back home to Ghent where she belongs. (The battlefield is no place for a young lady, after all.) Ironhead, or, Once A Young Lady is the riotous and powerful story of a fierce renegade, and the silly men who try to bring her down.

BEST OF THE YEARKirkus · Parents · Chicago Public Library · Washington Post · Evanston Public Library · Los Angeles Public Library Charlotte Huck Recommended Book Common Sense Media Selection It’s Dat’s first day of school in a new country! Dat and his Mah made a long journey to get here, and Dat doesn’t know the language. To Dat, everything everybody says — from the school bus driver to his new classmates — sounds like gibberish. How is Dat going to make new friends if they can’t understand each other? Luckily there’s a friendly girl in Dat’s class who knows that there are other ways to communicate, besides just talking. Could she help make sense of the gibberish?P R A I S E “A superb picture book.”—The Wall Street Journal “Masterly. A tender reflection.”—The New York Times ★ “The execution is stellar. A visually and emotionally immersive immigration story.”—Kirkus (starred) ★ “Delightful. Beginning readers will love this book as the illustrations say it all.”—School Library Connection (starred) ★ “Will give hope to kids dealing with a new country and could inspire others to reach out to struggling immigrant children.”—Booklist (starred)

Our universe is brimming with secrets, and surprising curiosities. Here readers will learn the answers to all the questions they've asked themselves:What does the Sun look like from different planets in our galaxy? Why doesn't the Moon always appear the same? What is the largest river on Earth? And the highest mountain?In Geo-Graphics, our world becomes transformed by acclaimed artist Regina Giménez, into 96 pages of gorgeous shapes and colors. Planets and stars, continents and islands, rivers and lakes, volcanos and hurricanes ¿ here they are presented as circles, polygons, lines, spirals, and accompanying facts that explain the world around us.This special and unusual atlas is a marriage of science and art like no other.

Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it – school, friends, girls, plans for the future – just kind of … happens. Like a movie he presses play on, but doesn’t direct.   So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway.   And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop, and begin again, finally, as his.The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in 1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers – a tender, intense, unforgettable story of first love.  P R A I S E    ★  “Poetic, intensely emotional, and sensitively philosophical. An enduring story populated with endearing characters.”—Kirkus (starred) ★ “Superb…beautifully written. A richly realized exercise in empathy.”—Booklist (starred)

Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and the boy will be heartbroken. Should she try? Can she?

Sometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries so wide, that we can’t find the words to express them. How MUCH love we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it’s like to take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to shine on a rainy day. These thoughts and questions are explored by Hans and Monique Hagen in poems pitched perfectly to the children who wonder. Marit Törnqvist is their brilliant partner, spreading gorgeous color and heartfelt imagery across these pages. If you want a sneak peek at what we mean, turn to the sunflower spread on page thirty, and feel…yourself smile.

Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet!It's a little awkward at firs¿as most new friendships can be¿but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday.When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built?This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.

If people count sheep to fall asleep, then.what do sheep count? Flowers, says this beautifully fanciful dream of a book. Sunflowers, roses, geraniums, jasmine. And there''s lots of OTHER things you probably don''t know about sheep.Sheep have neither pajamas nor pillows nor slippers. They tell bedtime stories about rhinoceroses and airplanes. They ONLY fly when they''re sleeping, like butterflies circling the sun. In fact, there are sheep that sparkle in the dark like stars and fireflies.Or are there? Look closer at the light-as-a-laugh paintings by Amanda Mijangos, and you just might start wondering if all those adventurers are children in sheep''s clothing!

Jeska doesn''t know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from?When Jeska''s grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger''s name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family''s past, and hopefully to all that''s gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father''s encyclopedia collection, and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska''s family survived a terror that they''ve worked hard to keep secret all her life. And somehow, it has both nothing and everything to do with her, all at once.A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I''ll Keep You Close is about what comes after disaster: how survivors move forward, what they bring with them when they do, and the promise of beginning again while always keeping the past close

It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over!The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say?What about the country YOUR family is originally from? Is it shaped like an apple? A boot? A torch?Open this book to join Rashin in discovering the true things that shape a place called home.

Batchelder Award Honor BookSchool Library Journal Best of the YearKirkus Best of the YearBooklist Editors' ChoiceEvanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for KidsChicago Public Library's Best of the BestABC Group Best Books for Young Readers"Hypnotizing...Provocative...Disarming"—The New York Times"Evocative and stirring...mesmerizing to read aloud."—The Wall Street Journal★ "Visually striking...full of vivid language."—Publishers Weekly (starred)★ "A rich anthology to understand and delight in Native traditions."—Booklist (starred)★ "Begs to be read aloud."—Kirkus (starred)★ "Impressive, handsome, and universally appealing."—Horn Book (starred)★ "Breathtaking and simply beautiful."—School Library Journal (starred)★ "The language sparkles and the tales beg to be read aloud."—School Library Connection (starred)"Visually arresting, captivating collection of traditional stories."—Shelf-Awareness"David Bowles' graceful translation renders this volume an excellent addition to any storytelling collection."—BCCB"One-of-a-kind...A collection that will appeal to children, but also to any lover and collector of books."—BookRiotA collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents¿the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it—from the Andes all the way up to Alaska.Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.

Osnat was born five hundred years ago ¿ at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read.Yet Osnat's father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books. And she convinced him to teach her. Then she in turn grew up to teach others, becoming a wise scholar in her own right, the world's first female rabbi!Some say Osnat performed miracles ¿ like healing a dove who had been shot by a hunter! Or saving a congregation from fire!But perhaps her greatest feat was to be a light of inspiration for other girls and boys; to show that any person who can learn might find a path that none have walked before.

Ollie doesn''t see things the same way everybody else does (and he certainly doesn''t see things the same way his older sister does). Instead of cars in traffic, Ollie sees a circus parade. Instead of cows grazing in a field, Ollie sees deadly bison with sharp horns and hooves. And at school, instead of letters on the board, Ollie sees birds with pointy beaks, and fish with flapping tails in the big blue sea.Ollie knows he doesn''t need glasses, because he likes the world better the way he sees it. But will his parents and bossy sister see things his way?

Why is this night different from all other nights?Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions near the start of the Seder. The answers are no less than the story of a people bound in slavery, their suffering in a foreign land, and their ultimate liberation – the story of Passover.Here the Four Questions are presented in breathtakingly luminous paintings by Ori Sherman. Whimsical animals parade through a unique format that can be read straight through in English or turned upside down to focus on the delicate Hebrew calligraphy and ingenious split-frame pictures. Each side of the Seder table can see its own variation of the richly colored scenes as elephants eat matzoh, monkeys dip herbs into water, and lions recline in newfound freedom. Author Lynne Sharon Schwartz answers the questions with refreshing clarity, providing insight into the symbols and rituals of the holiday.Experience a glorious art book, a beautiful gift for the kids who find the afikomen, and a wonderful way to experience Passover and its unique celebration of freedom.