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2) Sittwe
Publisher
Jeanne Hallacy
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Burmese
Description
Banned in Burma (Myanmar), Sittwe is a story about two teenagers from opposing sides of deadly religious and ethnic conflict. The film gives voice to the youth in a deeply divided society, to create space for dialogue about reconciliation. Phyu Phyu Than is a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint is a Buddhist boy. Both saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Five years later, Phyu Phyu Than is languishing in an apartheid style...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity--in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas and the princes of Disney films to pop sensation Ricky Martin and teen heartthrobs in shows like Saved...
4) Amarcord
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xv, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nasario García grew up in Ojo del Padre, a village in the Ro̕ Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, the way rural New Mexicans had for generations. His parents built their own adobe house, raised their own food, hauled their water, and brought up their children to respect the old ways. When he was young, García's mother taught him to mend his clothes and enlisted his aid in slaughtering chickens. Here he offers detailed accounts of these and...
7) Red zone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Identical twins Ronde and Tiki Barber's excitement over the approaching state championship football game turns to worry when there is a chicken pox outbreak at Hidden Valley Junior High.
Author
Publisher
Farcountry Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
187 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
I grew up in Plentywood, Montana, a small town on the edge of the Great Plains. The Old Lonesome is a fictionalized account of my childhood there in the 1950's. In the book, I recount the importance of the public library in enriching our lives and expanding our boundaries.-- Carol Benson.
9) Me-- Jane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
Author
Publisher
Nocturn Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xii, 62 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Ann Gomez Vigil was born in Delcarbon, Colorado. She pursued her dream of attending college at Adams State, receiving her degree in Elementary Education. She taught at the Walsenburg Middle School until her retirement in 1999.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or...
15) Layers: a memoir
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pénélope Bagieu never thought she'd publish a graphic memoir. But when she dusted off her old diaries (no, really—this book is based on her actual diaries), she found cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories begging to be drawn. In Layers, Bagieu reflects on her childhood and teen years with her characteristic wit and unflinching honesty. The result is fifteen short stories about friendship, love, grief, and those awkward first...
16) Sexy Inc
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 36 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Are children being pushed prematurely into adulthood? Sophie Bissonnette's documentary Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences and bombarding them with sexual and sexist images. These...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
19) Wind up
Author
Series
Contract volume 8
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Derek and his team tackle playoffs, everyone deals with the pressure in different ways. And practice gets intense! One of Derek's teammates, Avery, starts being especially hard on herself. She isn't even enjoying the game anymore. Can Derek and the rest of the team pull her out of her funk?"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kate Mayfield's first foray into nonfiction is a vivid Southern memoir that reads like a novel, about growing up in Jubilee, Kentucky as the daughter of a charismatic but troubled small-town undertaker--imagine Mad Men's Sally Draper growing up in the world of The Help--
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