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Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her "Who me?" expression, guaranteed to...
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Birchbark house volume 1
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Juvenile Historical Fiction
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
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"It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything: brains, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. Then China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on Ji-li and her family, forcing them to live in constant fear of arrest. And when her father is imprisoned, Ji-li faces the most difficult decision...
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