Quince Clash
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May 18 2016
isn:
9780545472906
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Crossing the Line
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May 17 2016
isn:
9780545472845
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El Deafo
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Oct 3 2015
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9781419710209
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Behind the Mountains
Danticat tells a story similar to her own, but set about twenty years later and with plenty of other elements to differentiate it from a fictionalized memoir, about a Haitian girl, Celiane, moving to the US and reuniting her family.
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Dec 19 2013
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0-439-37299-2
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Friends, the
West Indian immigrant Phyllisia Cathy has been plopped down in Harlem with her proud, larger-than-life father, dying mother and pretty, compliant sister.
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May 18 2013
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Peanut
Ayun's first graphic novel (I can call her Ayun, because we're friends) is a story that should appeal to tweens about a girl who moves to a new school and tries to make herself more interesting by faking a dire peanut allergy.
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Jan 13 2012
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978-0-375-86590-9
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Happy Families
Twins Ysabel and Justin feel like a bomb has been dropped on their family when they learn that their father is transgender.
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Oct 26 2012
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978-0-375-86966-2
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Another Way to Dance
This is the kind of thing I eat up--teenage dancer dealing with race issues. Vicki is enrolled in a competitive program at the School of American Ballet. The 14-year-old hestitantly leaves her divorcing parents and younger sister in New Jersey and spends the summer with her aunt (mother’s best friend, not sister) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Well, she’s psyched to do it; she loves to dance, but it is daunting.
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Nov 10 2011
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0-440-21968-x
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Lucky
Riches to rags story of a 14-year-old on the cusp of graduating from middle school. If you have a hard time sympathizing with poor little rich girls, this might not be the book for you. It’s not the worst read, though, and the ending is a little surprising.
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Sep 12 2011
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978-0-06-089043-8
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Sweet Valley High: Double Love
To my memory I’d never read a SVH book before, nor really desired to. While on zine tour my concentration was quite poor, so I took Celia up on her offer to lend me the first in the SVH series. It was about all I could take--both reading concentration wise and SVH wise. I can’t entirely decide if it’s good-bad or bad-bad, but my lack of interest in number two leads me to believe it’s the latter.
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“I’ll tell you what we’re going to do,” Todd yelled. “We’re going to stage a sit-in right on the football field.”
reviewdate:
Jul 4 2011
isn:
0-553-27567-4