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The East-West House
Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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A biography of biracial sculptor/designer/landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, focusing on his childhood in Japan and the building of an "east-west" house that gave shape to his lifelong creative approach.

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The Great Voyages of Zheng He
By Demi
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The Great Voyages of Zheng He
By Demi

Sail the world with Chinese admiral Zheng He, one of the greatest explorers in world history. What wonders will you discover on his quest to befriend nations?

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Cat Girl's Day Off
By Kimberly Pauley
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Cat Girl's Day Off
By Kimberly Pauley
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In this hilarious YA homage to Ferris Bueller's Chicago, Natalie must use her Talent of talking to cats to solve a high-profile celebrity kidnapping.

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Silent Star
The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
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The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
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The biography of William Ellsworth Hoy, the first deaf player to have a successful career in professional and Major League baseball.

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It Jes' Happened
When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
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When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
The inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.

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Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
By Alan Schroeder, Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
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Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
By Alan Schroeder, Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
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This spirited biography introduces young readers to the early life of Florence "Baby Flo" Mills, an internationally renowned entertainer of the Harlem Renaissance era who began her career as a child.
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Irena's Jars of Secrets
By Marcia Vaughan Crews, Ron Mazellan
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Irena's Jars of Secrets
By Marcia Vaughan Crews, Ron Mazellan
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A picture book biography of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped save nearly 2500 Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II.

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The Blood Lie
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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The Blood Lie
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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Years before WWII begins, latent hostility against the Jews erupts in a blood lie when Daisy, a young Gentile girl from Massena, New York, disappears in the woods.

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Only the Mountains Do Not Move
A Maasai Story of Culture and Conservation
By Jan Reynolds
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A Maasai Story of Culture and Conservation
By Jan Reynolds
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A photographic essay about contemporary Maasai--the changes in lifestyle, land, and farming practices they face and how they are adapting to those changes.

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Tankborn (Tankborn #1)
A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered enslaved non-human (GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and in the process find out what it means to be human.

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Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac
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Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac
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Luke King, whose father is a black-ops infiltrator, uses the skills his father taught him to figure out his family's paranormal secret and save his kidnapped father and his own friends.

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Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-Webb
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Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-Webb
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An African American boy living in New Orleans in the 1930s raises money to pay the rent with the help of a popular jazz musician.

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Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure
By Naomi C. Rose
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Tashi and the Tibetan Flower Cure
By Naomi C. Rose
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A Tibetan American girl helps her grandfather recover from an illness through the use of a traditional cure that focuses on friendship and compassion as partners in physical recovery.

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Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth
By Joan Schoettler, Jessica Lanan
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Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth
By Joan Schoettler, Jessica Lanan
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A heartwarming tale about a loving daughter who diligently learns to sew beautiful Korean wrapping cloths so that she can be reunited with her mother at the royal court.

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The Best Shoes
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Michael Ramirez
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The Best Shoes
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Michael Ramirez
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There are so many kinds of shoes.

Which ones are the best?

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The Mangrove Tree
Planting Trees to Feed Families
By Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
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The Mangrove Tree
Planting Trees to Feed Families
By Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
The fascinating story of Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped a small African village become self-sustaining by planting a forest of mangrove trees to reshape the community's ecosystem.

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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
An anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and understandings--as expressed by poets of diverse heritage and reflected in illustrations featuring people of all ages and backgrounds.

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Al fin en casa (Home At Last)
By Susan Middleton Elya, Felipe Davalos
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Al fin en casa (Home At Last)
By Susan Middleton Elya, Felipe Davalos
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A sympathetic tale of a mother-daughter bond and overcoming adversity, brought to life by the vivid illustrations of Felipe Davalos.

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¡Olé! Flamenco
By George Ancona
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¡Olé! Flamenco
By George Ancona
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A photo-essay about flamenco, a centuries-old living art form, originating in southern Spain, that incorporates traditional dance, song, and music.

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Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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A picture book biography of tennis player Arthur Ashe, who began his career playing tennis as a child on the segregated courts as a child in Virginia and went on to become the top tennis player in the world.

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