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English
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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
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Publisher
Ediciones Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Yolanda ℓlvarez est̀ teniendo un buen ąo. Comienza a sentirse como en casa en la Secundaria Julia De Burgos, su escuela en el Bronx. Tiene a su mejor amiga Victory, y tal vez algo con Još, un jevito de ͠ltimo ąo que est̀ conociendo mejor. Conf̕a en que su iniciaci̤n en la tradici̤n de brujas de su familia suceder̀ pronto."--
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Publisher
Tu Books, an Imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la tribu Umpqua de Regina es terminada legalmente y su familia debe mudarse de Oreg̤n a Los ℓngeles, ella se embarca en una b͠squeda para comprender su identidad como india a pesar de estar tan lejos de casa.
In 1957, ten-year-old Regina Petit's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and forced to leave Oregon, but in Los Angeles her family faces prejudice and she struggles to understand her identity as an Indian far from tribal lands.